Repeat: It is more of a station wagon than anything else — a very, very good station wagon.
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"We thought it'd be fun if we got in a station wagon and went places and did a show and got back in the station wagon and drove away," Neuwirth said.
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Because, at this rate, you never know when one of them may be back hustling out of a station wagon — or when they'll come across a station wagon they want to invest in.
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In other words, the station wagon was the original minivan.
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Better get the station wagon to fit the three kids.
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Things were tough, and they lost the family station wagon.
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It required someone to work out how many tapes could fit in the station wagon, how much data the tapes could hold and then how quickly the station wagon could get to the destination.
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That's not bad for a station wagon that starts at $55,000.
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The station wagon is the vinyl record of the car industry.
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Clothes hang on me like a tarp on a station wagon.
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Then he climbed into a station wagon, honked and drove away.
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The old American family station wagon did not project that image.
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My parents had a Subaru station wagon, as people do in Connecticut.
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Probably in my dad's station wagon or something back in the day.
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Guy went outside, and spotted a cherry-red station wagon parked nearby.
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All that for the price of a brand new Volvo station wagon.
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On Sundays, Marc would climb into his father's 1970 Buick station wagon.
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He had a Ford Falcon station wagon called Burt the Millennium Falcon.
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On their way back, their station wagon was pulled over by the police.
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The family lost its station wagon and came close to losing its home.
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Otherwise, the car seems like a snazzy electric version of a station wagon.
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Rotondo waved to journalists as he loaded his creaky station wagon with his belongings.
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Where would we be without the sports car, minivan, or wood-paneled station wagon?
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In a 50-year-old station wagon, a storyteller sets out to document America.
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Presents new Fiat Tipo five-door model and Station Wagon in Turin (0830 GMT).
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This is not the year of the petite, fast sportscar or the sensible station wagon.
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For one thing, it is more of a station wagon than it is an SUV.
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Night Shift was self-distributed in the early days using a Subaru Outback station wagon.
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We lost our family station wagon and were an inch away from losing our home.
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More likely, it was someone in a station wagon crowded with children and weary parents.
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Garage sailing, as I thought of it then, was a land voyage made by station wagon.
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That's because, just as the minivan killed the station wagon, the crossover is killing the minivan.
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They have another fight, but this time Devon flees with the children in her station wagon.
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The Cubs will take out the Nationals, who are a Buick station wagon leaking transmission fluid.
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She did not let him out of her station wagon until he was on a leash.
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They have spilled outside, near an abandoned station wagon, because there is no space left inside.
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Written in large letters on the rear window of a grimy Peugeot station wagon: "Lave moi."
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One courier, Fernando Salas, pulled up in a red Suzuki station wagon stuffed with 10 boxes.
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"In the rest of the world, the station wagon is a popular car," Mr. Kitman said.
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The station wagon was a gift; the group is seeking someone to pay for the truck.
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O'Brien received Cosby in his parents' station wagon, where he presented him with an old bowling trophy.
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I felt like a reckless teen driving something other than a station wagon for the first time.
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They drove in a station wagon from Toronto to New York, but the cleaning job didn't materialize.
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A middle-aged man in a shiny Volvo station wagon pulled into the parking lot behind us.
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We would hop in our station wagon (back before cars had seatbelts) and go to his office.
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But home for Jacquie and her sister was a locked station wagon in an empty parking lot.
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The vast majority of eyes attracted to the Lusso's svelte silhouette see it as a station wagon.
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And I put them in the back of our station wagon to take them to the port.
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Picture a Cadillac or a Lincoln, a station wagon and a golf cart in every oversize garage.
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So the moms head to New York City in Gillian's station wagon, and Helen keeps them in line.
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The giant tree engulfs the family station wagon and, once they get home, barely fits inside their house.
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That summer, a newly minted Marine lieutenant, I drove my piled-high station wagon to Quantico's Basic School.
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And each afternoon a woman in a beat-up station wagon delivered the local paper, The Citizen Register.
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Opinion I am about to travel cross-country in a fully loaded station wagon with my ex-husband.
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The back end of their car, a Volkswagen Jetta station wagon, sprouted a tangle of pipes and hoses.
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He was given a crappy team, of course, an old Buick station wagon of a Cleveland Indians squad.
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Why it matters: In a world dominated by SUVs, the V60 station wagon is indeed a rare breed.
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You had to have someone watch your car, because we drove up in Ricky and Cindy's parents' station wagon.
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Popularized in the '60s, '70s and '80s the wood-paneled station wagon was a staple for every American family.
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A: When we were young kids, my brother and I were sitting in the back of a station wagon.
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Arthur: Sounds like you're saying that voting for Clinton is like taking your dad's station wagon to the prom.
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Elliot kept his day job at Macy's while Roslyn traveled around filling up the family station wagon with bargains.
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People without college degrees could buy a home, raise a family, buy a station wagon, take some nice vacations.
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The movie opens on low boil with Mildred behind the wheel of her station wagon near three derelict billboards.
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Surely you've glanced at the photo of the Volvo V90 Cross Country and understood that it's a station wagon.
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Think of it like this: You own a station wagon, and each year you fill it with slightly bigger boxes.
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She piled into a Chevy station wagon with her mother, her father, her two sisters, and a few prized possessions.
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I remember sleeping with my little sisters in the way-back of our 1955 Chevy station wagon, the Green Queen.
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Reva parked the car in the driveway next to a rusting burgundy minivan and an old yellow Volvo station wagon.
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About an hour later, just after midnight, Mr. Alley was stopped near the base driving a rattling 20 station wagon.
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Three years ago, she decided to pack up her station wagon and drive out west for some much-needed sun.
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Be on the lookout for the artist's anti-capitalist station wagon cinema during Bushwick Open Studios, on October 1st and 2nd.
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If you ask most automotive journalists about some of their favorite rides, inevitably a station wagon will make the top ten.
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For one, a station wagon performs more like a car, and Buick succeeded in building a wagon that's fun to drive.
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Together with colleagues he rented a VW Jetta station wagon without knowing that their findings would change the auto industry forever.
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That evening, in the mostly empty house, my brother went out to his station wagon and dragged inside his upright bass.
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Cutting across wide swaths of empty desert, their white station wagon roared down paved roads at nearly 90 miles an hour.
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Instead, he drove in a retrofitted station wagon dubbed "The Blue Bandit" that got about 124 miles on a single charge.
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The back of the station wagon held the essentials: pillows and blankets, combs and toothbrushes, extra clothes, jackets and nonperishable food.
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Moments later, they dodged a station wagon swerving along the road, in the same direction that Corporal Collins had been running.
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They began importing them in small quantities and selling them out of the back of their station wagon at horse shows.
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If the automobile business in the United States is indeed a cyclical affair, the station wagon is due for a renaissance.
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Then, with the goat in sight, they froze as a Ford station wagon pulled up near the Marines guarding its pen.
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Perhaps the hardest part of the shoot, Smith says, was just coaxing the getaway car, a 1980s station wagon, to burn rubber.
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As the station wagon pops in and around Bushwick, Marcin's video works will be shown on display accompanied by mock DVD cases.
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In contrast, many traditional robotic exploration craft, commonly known as ROVs, are around the size of a Volkswagen station wagon, noted Shank.
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Romano Seletti hawked his wares from the hatchback of a little Fiat Cinquecento station wagon driven from one town to the next.
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A few days later, Powell's car, a red '66 Rambler station wagon, was discovered abandoned several miles upriver, near the Oakdale Dam.
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So, to keep the features they liked, millions of people replaced the family sedan or station wagon with an SUV or truck.
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Rather than a space-age conveyance, it was probably a station wagon or a van, or perhaps a bus or a taxi.
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They then drove in Dr. Raines's station wagon to a farmhouse nearby, where, over beer and sandwiches, they pored over the documents.
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When they caught up with the station wagon on a small road, the men were pulled from it and shot to death.
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On the driver's door of the station wagon, authorities reported finding Type O blood, the same as the victim's and Mr. Alley's.
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When they were children in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, and would commute in the family station wagon to private school in Manhattan.
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Vanessa took only what she could cram into her station wagon, a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica, letting the bed bugs have the rest.
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Everyone needs a vacation, Hoffman says, recalling some favorite memories of leaky tents and crowded station wagon seating from his own childhood.
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Artifacts include a bus from the 1955 fleet and a restored station wagon used by car pools during the yearlong bus boycott.
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His parents stuffed the family in a station wagon to take him to ski meets, sometimes sleeping in parking lots to save money.
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During his car trouble, he told reporters he said goodbye "more or less" to his parents before jumping into his rumbling station wagon.
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Buick has a station wagon it doesn't even call a wagon, hoping it can generate more enthusiasm by dubbing it the Regal TourX.
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Frank had full reign over the back of Reynolds' station wagon during the multi-state road trip, which was heavily documented in photos.
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They drive back and forth in a Volvo station wagon with their French bulldog, Grisha, acquired last April after their last cat died.
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Lavender-painted nails clutch the small of Vicki's thrusting back as Maura and Vicki come quicker than you can say station wagon lesbians.
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Their car, a Volvo station wagon, was stuffed to the roof with suitcases, garment bags, and Tokarczuk's beech tree from the Apostrof festival.
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They bolted portable emissions-testing equipment to a sheet of plywood and crammed it into the back of a Volkswagen diesel station wagon.
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In the late 73s, one of the first of the organizing companies, Showstopper, held competitions out of the trunk of a station wagon.
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Mr. Reese spent a good deal of the pre-internet 2503s barnstorming around the country in a station wagon with his bookseller friends.
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Brett Burnell drove the station wagon, a 1999 Ford Falcon packed with supplies and signed by dozens of well-wishers during the journey.
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First, he bought an "exceedingly rare" used 1989 Honda Civic station wagon, the same model of car he drove as a college student.
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Maman kept our swimsuits in the back of our blue Volvo station wagon, because the beach was always where we wanted to be.
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Others likened the Cybertruck to "The Homer," an overwrought, ugly station wagon that Homer Simpson designed on the long-running sitcom, The Simpsons.
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Over two weeks, we tried out two SUVs and a hot station wagon that are part of the Book by Cadillac subscription program.
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From the rear of the station wagon, the fire continued to consume more of the vehicle, becoming more intense as the smoke grew thicker.
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This week I'm driving a handsome station wagon, the Buick Regal TourX, which, if I had to guess, probably won't be around for long.
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Annoyed with Ken, Mollie guns their station wagon at such a furious clip that even he, seated beside her, begs her to slow down.
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The result is a manic, consistently funny book of alternating perspectives as the Wangs make various cross-country stopovers in their '80s station wagon.
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As he waited for his station wagon to emerge from a carwash, Dr. Woldow paused to consider why Mr. Trump bothered him so much.
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Driven Adding ground clearance, all-wheel drive and rugged Ranger Rick cladding to a station wagon is a well-known path for automotive profit.
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We stayed, but got ready to leave at a moment's notice: go-bags, and what few family memorabilia would fit into my station wagon.
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A few weeks after the 1972 December election, Neilia's station wagon was hit by a tractor-trailer as she pulled out from an intersection.
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On the day before Thanksgiving, we'd load up his station wagon with frozen turkeys, and we would deliver them to each one of his employees.
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From the backseat of my parent's station wagon, I listened eagerly, absorbed every word, and sang it verbatim to the teenagers at the local pool.
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She claims Hoffman "stuck his fingers right up inside of me" while she was sitting with him in the back of a crowded station wagon.
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Sitting in the front of their 1995 wood-paneled Buick Roadmaster station wagon and cuddled next to husband Dax Shepard, Bell cradles her pregnant belly.
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One possession, he works from a triple-threat position along the baseline, his jab step pushing the defender back the length of a station wagon.
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Another group of neutral service mechanics appeared in their yellow station wagon and gave Froome one of the rarely used generic bicycles from its roof.
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Last summer, Elyse Bouvier got into her beat-up Volvo station wagon and drove across Alberta in search of something very personal but very foreign.
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I don't know whether Mollie Miles really drove the family station wagon all over the road while telling off her husband, but I don't care.
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As the clock inched toward the start of sales at Other Half in Brooklyn, Kevin Weinisch was tailgating around his station wagon, drinking a beer.
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The message is reinforced by the packaging: an illustration of a station wagon with a canoe tied to the top traveling down a country road.
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They were more likely to be based on car-like platforms – just like today's crossovers – the BRAT sharing its underpinnings with a small Subaru station wagon.
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Hastings talked about Andrew Tanenbaum, a computer scientist who wrote a math problem asking students to work out the bandwidth of a station wagon carrying tapes.
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I'm sitting in the back seat of a station wagon and there, lodged between the passenger's seat and the middle armrest, is a kernel of popcorn.
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Then he demands that the family join him on what proves to be a hellish cross-country journey in an old powder-blue Mercedes station wagon.
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But there's this guy with this red Volvo station wagon and this mustache and this long hair and he's driving this car and, I don't know.
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Later in the movie, Luna remembers her as the station wagon passes the village where she was born, but he says nothing to his feckless companions.
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At the end of our visit, we returned to the parking lot where we had left our car, a 1952 Dodge station wagon with Colorado plates.
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"Ready, guys?" he said, looking toward his support crew — grandpas with long white beards, one driving a white station wagon barefoot, the other astride a bike.
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Did not know they would do that, but it ends up not being a problem and we get a nice BMW station wagon as our ride.
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Mr. Wilson later reported that he had spent "four solid days of bundling and packing and moving," using a station wagon he borrowed from a cousin.
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Whether it's in a station wagon, off the edge of a cliff or closer to home, these stories show just how loved a car can be.
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It was a spare existence: His family had no stereo, he said, but they did have Bess, a yellow station wagon with an eight-track player.
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For an ascending coach and program, though, the search for players is an unrelenting odyssey, albeit one you can traverse in a decade-old station wagon.
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The clip of Molly (Beanie Feldstein) dancing out of her house to meet her best friend Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) who pulls up in a Volvo station wagon.
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The collecting fever snowballed with weekend trips to auctions in Connecticut, where he would fill his Country Squire station wagon with pictures, furniture and bric-a-brac.
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We'd put the paper together on Sunday's and actually deliver it out of the hatchback, open door of the station wagon, kind of crawling along the streets.
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But if you're in the market for a station wagon Stateside, you'll have to do some real legwork to find one; there aren't a lot out there.
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But while much of Volvo's recent success has come from that SUV, Volvo's heritage — and much of the company's greatest successes — have come from the station wagon.
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Returning home with the driver, he and his friend packed their families into the Toyota station wagon, 153 people in total, most of them women and children.
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I grew up in five different houses and apartments, wishing I had parents who owned a suburban split-level and a station wagon like all my friends.
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When he thought of her cracking open the station wagon with a coat hanger and getting the gun out of the glove compartment, he shook his head.
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When Penske became a racecar driver in the late 1950s, he took his car on his own to races with a station wagon and two-wheel trailer.
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Visitors will find Panamera variants, including the not-a-station-wagon Sport Turismo, and a 462-horsepower plug-in hybrid, alongside the Boxster, Cayman, Cayenne and Macan.
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The police said they were "looking at all possibilities" after about 30 people, including children, were injured when a station wagon sped into pedestrians at a parade.
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The BMW 23 Series compact, for example, is now available as a four-door sedan, a hatchback, a station wagon, a diesel and a plug-in hybrid.
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Under a tent that extends over their station wagon, the Baldwin family members eat a meal from metal plates at a campsite in Yosemite National Park in 1958.
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Two other women told Variety they were sexually assaulted, one while working on the film Ishtar in the 19853s, the other in the back of a station wagon.
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A mantis found in the grill of a station wagon was an accidental death, but turning a magnifying glass on a mantis could get you the maximum sentence.
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The couple, who have been dating for at least 15 months, arrived in a Ford Galaxy station wagon with blacked-out windows for the discreet appointment last Thursday.
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One afternoon, some 50 years ago, those lyrics were accompanied by the siren of an ambulance, pulling up behind our faded, blue Buick station wagon in the driveway.
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Audi has finally heeded enthusiasts' calls and is bringing the fire-breathing RS6 Avant (that's station wagon in Audi parlance) to the US market for the first time.
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Mr. Hoffman offered to give her a ride home after a party, and they climbed into the back seat of a full station wagon, where he groped her.
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The Volvo V250 station wagon that the company let me test for a week is supposed to be one of the safest and most sophisticated cars you can buy.
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The boys loaded Ricky into the Nyhus family station wagon and drove him to the nearest road, where an ambulance brought him to the hospital, about 10 miles away.
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We both need to believe, at least a little, that she will always be the beautiful mom, 35 or so, picking me up from school in her station wagon.
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For the most part, though, Pence oozes recognizable, old-fashioned conservatism that might help ease the GOP's fears that Trump is driving the party's station wagon off a cliff.
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Remember the time Mom passed out drunk in the driveway next to the station wagon and all the neighborhood dogs gathered around as Junior tried to wake her up?
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A third unnamed woman says Hoffman assaulted her in the back of a station wagon and later pressured her into a sexual encounter she says left her feeling traumatized.
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The wood-panelled tailgate of the 1972 Oldsmobile station wagon dangled open like a broken jaw, making a wobbly bench on which four kids could sit, eight legs swinging.
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While Stephen Paddock was playing at the family's white ranch house, his father was robbing banks with a snub-nosed revolver and getting away in the family station wagon.
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He's getting better, despite the disaster of a haircut, and the indignity of being saddled with a Volvo station wagon for running surveillance through the New York City streets.
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You see Will Smith flop back having caught this baby that's ejected out of his mom's station wagon so he kind of lands on his butt holding this squiggly thing.
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But after driving only a half-mile, Thompson watched as a northbound Mercedes-Benz station wagon slammed into the wall, veered across the freeway and smashed into the center divider.
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They crisscross the country in a station wagon (later upgraded to a small cargo truck) with their belongings strapped to the top, the kids reading books for their only education.
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That means it has an awesome powertrain, capable of delivering more than 400 horsepower (in a station wagon!) if you tick the box for the T8 plug-in hybrid package.
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Earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Spain, he said the idea stemmed from a math problem about the bandwidth of a station wagon carrying tapes.
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Laura Alvarez, ten years old, rode in the family's battered station wagon to the courthouse in Tyler, for a hearing held on September 19873, 1977, at six in the morning.
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In 1999, Ant Farm did attempt to prepare "Citizens's Time Capsule" for its scheduled public reopening, but the Environmental Transport Association had deemed the soil around the station wagon toxic.
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Millennials, clearly, are not living the lives of easy abundance bestowed on generations past — no fighting over the check at Outback Steakhouse, no need (or budget) for a station wagon.
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It could be said that the X2 is more of a station wagon than a crossover, but it can be argued that crossovers and S.U.V.s are simply big station wagons.
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When I was a little kid, before Edison, N.J., was a hotbed of Indian culture, one Sunday a month, we'd pack up the station wagon and drive to Jackson Heights.
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Nothing was more damaging to Mitt Romney's career than the revelation that one summer holiday he strapped an Irish setter called Seamus to the roof of his family station wagon.
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The station wagon — known also, depending on the culture, as an estate, an avant, a woodie, kombi or caravan — was a key family hauler for much of the 20th century.
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Wagons shuttled goods to market, picked up arriving guests at the train station (a station wagon!), ferried the children to soccer and served as sleep-in digs for broke surfers.
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He and friends began gathering the ingredients of a traditional Sabbath meal and dropping off packages of food by station wagon at the homes of those they heard were wanting.
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We wanted a station wagon instead of an SUV — for both nostalgic reasons and a general distaste for trucks — and used-car lots aren't exactly spilling over with wagons these days.
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I can feel everything: the warmth of the station wagon, the sound of my parents talking up in the front, the eerie darkness of Boston rushing by along the Mass Pike.
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I was one of the first people in the United States with a BMW station wagon, one of many vehicles, as I got a new one every year for ten years.
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Ms. Higuera also located a romantic partner of Corporal Collins who drove a station wagon and was about the same height, 5-foot-8, as a man seen near the abduction.
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One recent case involved thieves who parked a station wagon inside an orchard, in a corner of the property that was not regularly visited, before robbers with backpacks plundered the fruit.
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He righted himself at another prep school, and after graduating got his first taste of entrepreneurship, starting a landscaping business with two rakes, an old station wagon and some garbage bags.
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In case you feel like going full-blown Griswold family this year, there's also an inflatable National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Station Wagon to help you really pull off the quirky aesthetic.
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Over 20 years ago, I drove to the small liberal arts college Wesleyan University in my parents' station wagon, a microwave-size computer and a dot-matrix printer in the trunk.
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Five years ago, when I was 23, it took filling up an entire station wagon plus a trailer hitched to the back of it to understand the hulking monster I had created.
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Now, you could buy a station wagon (they handle more like sports sedans because of their lower center of gravity) or a minivan, but buyers have voted for crossovers with their checkbooks.
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Much like the station wagon went from a staple of the American household in the '60s and '70s to being phased out by the late '90s, the sedan is slowly fading away.
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My parents bought their vegetables from an unmarked storefront we called Norman the Hippie's, with an aging Peugeot station wagon in front filled with the boxes Norman trucked in from farms upstate.
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My father, then a colonel in the Army serving at the Pentagon, walked me around to our carport and pointed to a sticker on the driver's side window of our station wagon.
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A court suggested that he had killed the Ryens to steal their station wagon — although it is thought to have been parked in front of the house with the keys in it.
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Reagan arrived at the polo match, the queen drove up — at the wheel of her own Vauxhall station wagon, with a single security guard, or so I remember, in the passenger seat.
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With my mom or Lew behind the wheel of the family station wagon, we made road trips in search of colorful amphibians in the Appalachians and insect-eating plants in southern swamps.
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Driving to the farm in a station wagon with no empty seats, we knew we were close when the asphalt turned to dirt and had arrived when the dirt turned to gravel.
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"It used to mean the Volvo station wagon that you hope some day will pack up your kids' things and take her to Yale, and the $300-an-hour SAT tutor," says Lundquist.
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The team talked to me a little about the technology they had toted along in the station wagon, especially something called a cell-site simulator, which was packed in a large travel case.
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Years later, scheduled to compete in New York, the team piled into an old DeSoto station wagon and spent 22 hours on the road to get there, stopping only for gas and hamburgers.
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I'd grown up in that same town in the 1980s and had spent hours waiting in the back seat of my parents' station wagon, windows open, reading or daydreaming, while they ran errands.
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In her 20183 autobiography, " A Fighting Chance ," Warren describes the moment when she learned that her parents' station wagon had been repossessed, and writes of accompanying her mother to look at rental houses.
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"They let me drive out in the field in our station wagon and dig up a few rows of peanuts so that we'd have enough to bring back to the lab," Burks recalls.
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I was the one who, trying to prepare early, jacked up my Volvo station wagon on a frigid December morning and swapped my all-season tires for a set of four winter tires.
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Crippen estimated that he lost $90,000 worth of belongings in the storm and flooding — including the lawnmowers he uses for his business, two Harley Davidsons, two Chevy trucks, and a Chevy HHR station wagon.
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CreditCreditIllustration by Justin Metz It was still dark one morning early this year when Joe Lacob, the majority owner of the Golden State Warriors, drove his Mercedes station wagon through the Stanford University campus.
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Right now I am still on a list to rent a car even temporarily, and dependent on a rickety old Volvo station wagon with a less-than-perfect muffler lent by a good friend.
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One day, after the family's station wagon was repossessed, her mother put on the one formal dress she owned, walked to an interview at Sears and got a job answering phones for minimum wage.
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And the truth is that although sedans are fading in popularity, overwhelmed by the advent of the crossover SUV as a station wagon of the 21st century, I still loves me a four-door!
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The Owl Farm takes its name from Hunter S. Thompson's Colorado ranch, where the great eccentric once dynamited a station wagon, and later arranged to have his own ashes fired out of a cannon.
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With sauce, a chicken nugget becomes so much more: a vehicle for sugar, spice, and everything nice; an avenue to the flavor-filled fantasies of every afterschool ambler and every station-wagon wee one.
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He settled on Alaska because he didn't like warm weather, and he drove there in a Ford station wagon with, among other things, a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter and a .
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But, Tesla says, it's "false and misleading" to compare the Model S and X to the likes of a Volvo station wagon, pointing out that its cars have faster acceleration rates and better passenger safety.
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Melissa Kester alleges that the incident occurred in a recording studio, while the anonymous woman claims that Hoffman assaulted her in the back of a station wagon, then coerced her into sexual activity later on.
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On Friday, Soviet-era Volgas and a rusty 1970s Lada station wagon were the main attractions at a vintage car auction held in Salla, a northern town 20 km (12 miles) from the Russian border.
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She mothered her kids in every kind of living quarter imaginable — cheap inns, well-heeled mansions, hotel rooms, apartments and the back of a station wagon that she drove from Maine to Texas every year.
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But for certain folks (especially those living in Vermont, Colorado, or Washington State, where Volvo sells particularly well) the station wagon remains a great way to transport your skis or golden retrievers or 2.4 kids.
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Family Trip Mode: The Zombie will reconfigure its body into a 1974 Ford Country Squire station wagon, including broken air-conditioning, seats stained from ketchup and chocolate milk shakes, and a nauseatingly sticky rear compartment.
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Anything, it would seem, to avoid the fate of the bored child, sitting in the back of his mother's station wagon draining the car battery, listening to Hot 97 as the clouds drifted slowly overhead.
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And so no one learned that he had been one of eight antiwar activists, including his wife, who took part in the burglary — and that he had driven a getaway car, the family station wagon.
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He says he first realized he had it as a child in the 80s, and found long car rides in his dad's beige Oldsmobile station wagon were more tolerable while shading his eyes with his ViewMaster.
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Just as you wouldn't judge the safety of new automobiles by looking at your grandfather's station wagon, which didn't have airbags or anti-lock brakes, deals in the 28500st century have been negotiated with higher standards.
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The original driveway and garage are primed for a clunky station wagon like the Brady's owned -- and there's an in-house intercom similar to the one Alice would use to call the kids down for dinner.
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In one continuous take, set inside the trio's station wagon, we hear Verdú sussing out what Luna and García Bernal know about foreplay while, through the windshield, we see a police pickup truck pass their car.
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That was me in my teens, convinced that grave bodily injury or death would be preferable to what I was hearing from the passenger seat of the family Ford Taurus station wagon, doled throughout my adolescence.
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What stands out is that every single car and station wagon in the photographs, except for the occasional VW, was built by one of America's Big Four car manufacturers — General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors.
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For decades, the tried and true station wagon was the preferred method of family transportation in the US. But the in the '90s and 2000s, its position in the automotive kingdom was usurped by the minivan.
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Windows was a rattling lemon of a station wagon; MacOS was a hermetically sealed Volkswagen Beetle; and then, weirdly … beyond weirdly … there was: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all.
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The original Vizzion concept car was first shown in 2018 as a sleek, low-riding, self-driving sedan, and the latest concept station wagon/super small SUV was revealed at the Los Angeles Auto Show Tuesday night.
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Asked why he had expanded to these dimensions — whether it had to do with the New York School's change in the scale of abstract painting — "he said, 'It's when we got a station wagon,'" Mr. Leiber said.
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The company has found itself in need of more free capacity at Ghent, after being forced to move production of its V60 station wagon out to Belgium and China to free up space at its Swedish plant.
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After the cause of death is determined by a doctor and farewells are said by the family, a silver-colored hearse, often a Mercedes-Benz station wagon, pulls up in front of the house of the deceased.
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The silver Mercedes station wagon, believed to be the car that had crashed into the crowd, could be seen on the street outside a supermarket, surrounded by police officers and carnival participants dressed as clowns and animals.
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A nearly weeklong manhunt continued on Monday for a Wisconsin man the authorities suspect of robbing a gun shop, setting his own station wagon on fire, espousing broad revolution and mailing a threatening manifesto to President Trump.
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The incident went down April 24 on an L.A. street and the victim's dash cam was rolling -- capturing James DeBarge driving a Mercedes station wagon, trying to cut across traffic when he collided with her Chevy Volt.
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We lost our station wagon and would have lost our house if my mother hadn't saved our family by going out and getting her very first job outside the home — a minimum wage job answering phones at Sears.
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My mother, next to him in the passenger seat of our rusty gold station wagon with my baby sister on her lap, raises her eyebrows at my other two sisters and me, free-ranging in the second row.
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I'll never forget the time I struggled to back out of her cul-de-sac in my parents' beat-up Ford Fairmont station wagon, nearly knocking over one of the giant topiary-filled urns that flanked the entrance.
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A few photographs, along with some pencils, eyeglasses and bits of tape, are interjected, as when Mr. Blechman's photograph of the front half of a red station wagon is completed, in red-and-white tape, by Mr. Niemann.
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Separation from his wife means getting his own apartment, which means selling his truck, which means working for contractors like Mick, perpetually late with the check and with a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker on his BMW station wagon.
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It's O.K. that photographs sometimes upstage the live action — like the shot of the students crammed into a United States Army station wagon, or the faces of the nine projected in the final scene, each labeled with a name.
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Each time, the report said, he showed the teller a snub-nosed revolver tucked in his belt, and fled in a stolen car that he abandoned a few blocks away to switch to the family's new Pontiac station wagon.
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One early employee worked so tirelessly over eight months — biking back and forth from work in the very early morning and very late night — that he completely forgot about the blue station wagon that he'd parked near his apartment.
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Three more women have accused the actor Dustin Hoffman of sexual misconduct, providing detailed allegations of encounters in a recording studio, in a station wagon and in a hotel room decades ago, according to interviews published Thursday in Variety.
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Somewhat reminiscent of Kunstraum's bootleg video store (of which Marcin is also a founder), the artist has arranged for a pirate DVD shop to be operated out of a station wagon through the duration of Bushwick Open Studios next month.
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By late 1980, the singer had settled into a relatively low-profile, post-Beatlemania life with his family in New York City and was riding around in a green 1972 Chrysler Town and Country station wagon that had seen better days.
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Which enables freaking terrifying scenes like this one, described by the Washington Post: Ron Magill of the Miami Zoo told WPLG TV in 2010 about a man who collected sleeping iguanas and threw them into the back of his station wagon.
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So under our new car-sharing regime, we can identify as someone who drives a station wagon when we're shuttling the kids around, and when it comes time for a weekend getaway, we'll feel more like a bright red convertible.
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Volvo took the wraps off of its nearly 400-horsepower V60 hybrid station wagon (and a more modest 340-horsepower variant), which can be had as part of the company's new subscription model and boasts a suite of semi-autonomous features.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Friday night, mid-1990s, the suburbs of Houston, Texas: my mom and I get in her car, a run-down red Ford station wagon that will become mine at the age of sixteen.
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Frugal Traveler I sat in the passenger seat of a station wagon with my friend Brian, an American who is living and raising a family in Osaka — his cute toddler was snoozing in the back — as he explained local rivalries.
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Outside the crumbling J.C. Penney, bystanders rushed to dig people out, and worked together to tow away a huge section of the fallen concrete facade with their vehicles, then extract a woman who'd been crushed beneath it in her station wagon.
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She regularly packed us into our blue station wagon and drove across town to the international grocer, where she could have her choice of seven types of feta and buy fresh herbs by the pound rather than by the bunch.
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"We'd throw everybody into the station wagon, drive out to Cape Cod, stay in a little two- or three-bedroom cottage a block from the beach, have a phenomenal time and come back sunburned a couple weeks later," he said.
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We would rarely even stay overnight; Dad would wake up my sister and me as early as possible, and we would pile into the brown Volkswagen Dasher station wagon, fortifying ourselves at the drive-through with McMuffins and hash browns.
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Mr. Hardesty would drive the Domino band to engagements in a bus or station wagon — Mr. Domino traveled separately in his Cadillac — with a "dedicated mission to get them into as many white hotels as he could," Mr. Coleman said.
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I remember the trip well, particularly a three-day drive down US-21743 (before interstate highways) in a station wagon with five kids without air conditioning, and a stay in a motel in Cocoa Beach, also without air conditioning, in mid-June.
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In the spirit of safety and family, one of the major success stories that Tesla hasn't brought to the forefront is that it could very well be the greatest family car since the modern-day station wagon — but for less obvious reasons.
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On an early Sunday morning in January 2007, 18-year-old Ashley Myers was driving home from Washington, D.C. on Interstate 66 when a tanker truck hauling gasoline struck the car directly behind her, causing it to crash into her Volvo station wagon.
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Compare that to the wild and wonderful Geneva week that just featured Aston Martin's grandiose Lagonda concept, Rimac's scorching Concept Two, Bugatti's even faster Chiron Sport, Jaguar's cheaper-than-a-Tesla I-Pace SUV, and Volvo's built-for-the-Europeans V60 station wagon.
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"We highly suggest you have a high-clearance, four-wheel-drive vehicle, and that's neither," park employee Kristi Haynie told a couple in front of us who wanted to know if they could navigate the rocks and ruts in their station wagon.
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We were then relegated to the back seat of the rusted, harvest gold Chevy station wagon in the parking lot, in an effort to contain our animus and give my dad some peace, sometimes with the windows cracked for air, sometimes not.
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On May 17, Mr. Bakhsh, a taxi driver in winter and a potato farmer in summer, started the day by having the boys help push-start their beaten blue station wagon, shoving it down the village's road until the engine finally caught.
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When I was young, one Sunday every month or so, my mom would load my brothers and me into our station wagon and drive 80 miles north to Orange County, where we'd meet our extended family at a Persian restaurant for lunch.
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Investigators believe Adam Densmore killed Ashley Mead, the mother of his 13-month-old daughter, in Boulder and drove a circuitous route to Oklahoma in a 2001 Volvo station wagon with the child and Mead's body inside, Boulder police public information officer Shannon Cordingly said.
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It was not until he was packing his station wagon with tapes to donate to a church for a tax write-off that his father spotted the three tapes labeled "Apollo 11 EVA," an acronym for extra vehicular activity, NASA jargon for the moon landing.
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In the 1970s, when contraceptives were still banned in the Irish republic, a family-planning campaigner went south with 40,000 condoms in his station wagon; his insistence that they were all "for personal use" was met with good-humoured banter by an Irish police patrol.
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In a story called "Goats," collected now in "For a Little While: New and Selected Stories," a hefty sampling of Mr. Bass's work, two young men decide it's a sane idea to drive home with a young goat in the back of their station wagon.
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It's only recently that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has focused on collecting his work, most recently with the acquisition of two drawings: one of his 113 design for John F. Kennedy's Air Force One livery, the other a 1963 Studebaker station wagon.
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Ten of them joined forces to pay the $300 monthly rent for a station wagon for the trip to work every day, typically with two people riding in the front seats, four in the back seats, and four others crammed into the rear luggage compartment.
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Father Roy Snipes delivered a prayer in English and Spanish, then climbed into a station wagon — outfitted with a large figurine of the church's namesake strapped to the roof — to lead the approximately 1,000 protesters in a four-mile march to the Rio Grande.
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When her father lost his job, in the early nineteen-sixties, and the family lost their station wagon and very nearly their house, her mother, who had a high-school education and no job experience, supported them by getting a minimum-wage job at Sears.
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This was only possible because Brady shampooed with an especially powerful wheatgrass smoothie sold to him for $11,000 by a man in a toga living inside a station wagon who calls himself The Relic and was just hired as a nutritionist at the TB12 Sports Therapy Center.
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But back in the day, a 1984 New York Times article referred to it as one of "the hot cars coming out of Detroit,'' noting that "analysts say the mini-van has created an entirely new market, one that may well overshadow the all-American station wagon.
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Chase) and the very patient Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) is only a weary shadow of the original "National Lampoon's Vacation," which found a lot to laugh at as it followed the dopey paterfamilias Clark and his quarrelsome brood on a hellish cross-country journey in their station wagon.
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My perception of the otherness of Vermont was heightened by having to endure the sweaty road trip, trapped in a station wagon, yelling at my sister over the din of highway driving with the windows down, while lurching to avoid my father's hand swatting back at us.
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We lost our family station wagon and at night I would hear my parents talk and that's where I learned words like mortgage and foreclosure and I remember the day that I walked into my parents' bedroom and laying out on the bed is the dress.
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Chase) and the very patient Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) is only a weary shadow of the original 'National Lampoon's Vacation,' which found a lot to laugh at as it followed the dopey paterfamilias Clark and his quarrelsome brood on a hellish cross-country journey in their station wagon.
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Click here to view original GIFYou obviously need to strap down the luggage you put on the roof of your car, but as this crash test footage from Switzerland's Dynamic Test Center shows, you might also want to strap down the bags in the back of your station wagon.
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In fairness, the biggest detractors of CUVs tend to be those who write about them, who will always choose the station wagon that sits closer to the earth and makes you feel like you're at one with the Autobahn, or the sports car with the wonderful exhaust note.
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For your first few goes, you'll struggle to avoid plowing through at least some of them, and their simple sprites will immediately fragment into bloody chunks: a hind leg disappearing off the top of the screen here, a head bouncing off the bonnet of your ramshackle station wagon there.
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As a gift to mark both his entry into adulthood and the start of his professional baseball career, Baker received one of the "greatest presents a mother could give a son": the keys to the family's station wagon, $20, and two tickets to the Monterey International Pop Festival.
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Rushed to the local hospital for a spinal tap—every bit as horrible as you may imagine, but the one sure means of diagnosis then—and throwing up in the back of the family station wagon on the way to the polio-specializing Sister Kenny Institute, in Minneapolis.
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" A third woman, who declined to be identified, told Variety that she wound up next to Hoffman in the back of a packed station wagon the night of the wrap party for Ishtar when the actor ran his hand up her skirt and put his fingers inside her, "smiling at me.
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Another thing about wagons is that they are an exceedingly rare sight in our current truck-and-SUV-clogged hellscape, at least in the US. (In Europe, the station wagon is a far more common vehicle of choice.) It takes exactly zero effort to buy a new SUV or truck.
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After Daddy had a heart attack and was out of work, after we lost the family station wagon and it looked like we would lose our house and everything would come crashing down, my mother put on her best dress and walked to the Sears and got a minimum-wage job.
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The two drawings acquired by MoMA are about as patriotic as it gets, although Loewy was born in Paris, and moved to the United States after World War I. The "Wagonaire" station wagon for the Indiana-based automaker Studebaker has a retractable roof and silvery style similar to his Greyhound bus.
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Every so often our parents would pack us into the Chevy station wagon for a nighttime drive to that rare Long Island hill with an unimpeded view of the sky, or to Wanaque, N.J., 70 miles away, where strange lights were said to have been hovering over a local reservoir.
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Meanwhile, a woman told the police (and her statements were later backed up by her sister) that a housemate, a convicted murderer, had shown up with others late on the night of the murders in blood-spattered overalls and driving a station wagon resembling one stolen from the Ryens' home.
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"I knew of a gentleman who was collecting them off the street and throwing them in the back of his station wagon, and all of a sudden these things are coming alive, crawling on his back and almost caused a wreck," wildlife photographer Ron Magill told NBC News in 2010.
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It also gave Dad a chance to take us to the Space Surveillance radar transmitter at Lake Kickapoo, TX. This was in a Ford Country Squire station wagon with two adults, five kids, two cartop carriers with clothes and sleeping bags, and a big wooden box on the tailgate for the tent.
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Though I did drive a similar, very cool Volvo station wagon (mine was dark blue), the one thing that made it clear this scene wasn't plucked directly out of my past was Molly's bright pink apartment building labeled "Le Capris," in front of which the two best friends showed off their moves.
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Which is why, about six years ago, Will Toledo began driving his family's station wagon to the parking lots of suburban churches and Targets, far from the thin bedroom walls that might betray him, to sing into a laptop in the back seat, the car seat headrest the only audience to his attempts.
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But nope, he's back!) - Single-handedly brought back fanny packs on the set of Wonder Woman: 1984 (+50 pts — cool, but fanny packs are still ugly) - Was spotted using a flip-phone (+30 pts — cute, but inconvenient) - And driving a STATION WAGON (+60 pts — especially if the caftan is also involved) - Released a Christmas album as Spider-Man!
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When I was a teenager, I never allowed the rose quartz energy happening all around me to penetrate my angst; I was too busy singing "Not The Doctor" at the top of my lungs in my beat-up station wagon, pushing away my imagined antagonists who wanted me to to be responsible for their fractured hearts.
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The C-HR XLE, a new Toyota product for 9223, looks and feels more like a small station wagon, whimsically designed by grade-school students given its loopy yet angular exterior sculpture and availability in two-tone body colors (radiant green mica with ice-white roof in the model used for this column) generally shunned by other vehicle manufacturers.
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Tapping into a vein of bratty bravado, he careens past toothless PG-13 peacocking into the kind of unrepentant sleaze that made him successful in the first place, culminating in a breathtaking stretch on the bridge where he sneers about fucking your girl, guzzling cocaine, and buying his mom a station wagon all in the same breath.
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While traditional rites (graduation, first child, marriage) can be illuminating, it's the unconventional or surprising rites we are particularly interested in: Turning 40 as a childless and unmarried woman; the decision to stop plucking one's eyebrows; a marination on what awkward talks with his dad — while trapped in the family station wagon — taught a young man about sex.
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Mattress companies rebuffed him in those early days, as did department stores, so he sold it himself, using his Rambler station wagon to deliver beds to local head shops, a member of Jefferson Airplane, a Smothers brother (he can't remember which), a nudist colony (which bought two) and, inevitably, Hugh Hefner, who ordered one for the Playboy Mansion, upholstered in green velvet.
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Mills keeps an Alva skateboard in the back of his Volvo station wagon, and when he can't sleep he soothes himself by remembering his runs—taken in the old style, fast and flowing, like a surfer—on bygone skate parks all over L.A. In the nineties, when Mills watched Jim Jarmusch films—a few characters, a laconic camera—he'd think, I could do that.
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His genius was in his agility in toggling between the flush and the lean, sometimes in the same year — the five kids piled into the station wagon and taken with our very best table manners to the Russian Tea Room for chicken à la Kiev, for the Rockettes at Radio City, walking Fifth Avenue to the tree — in spite of the electricity's being shut off or having to siphon gas for the car.
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