What a beautiful car... too bad Ford ever stopped making full size LTDs and their wagon counterparts. I think Ford should reintroduce the Country Squire, based on the current Taurus SHO, complete with AWD and wood paneling. How hot would that be?
If anything could be called the definitive American station wagon, I think it would have to be the Ford Country Squire. The 1973 model was the best-selling Country Squire of all time, with a total of 142,983 produced.
my parents bought one of these during the energy crisis of 1973 when people were waiting in lines a mile long just to buy gas. Ford was practically giving these away.
My parents had the Mercury version of this when I was a kid. I remember liking it a lot, especially the seats in the very back. But I ended up spotting the engine on fire when we made a stop at a convenience store one time (because I was short enough to see it). The car didn't stay in our hands long after that.
I love how they try to set an example by wearing seat belts. I guess they get the point across, but it has no impact because only 5% of drivers and passengers wore seat belts in the 1970's. Those seats in the far back I'm pretty sure were never made with seat belts. I've thought about getting one, but I don't know if passengers in the far back get an exemption from the seat belt law because the car was built after 1968.
Ford made the best wagons, and the Country Squire was king of the hill. Too bad they don't still produce a full-size wagon. Mercury's Colony Park was a fine looking vehicle too.
@GayUOPXBoy10 Nah...he just took their cars away and put sand and water in their perfectly good engines in order to justify sending them to the junkyard. Oh, and then he paid the owners back less than half what their cars were worth.
@quirpco Tell me about it... what a way to destroy our heritage and culture....notice how most of those cars were American...and the most traded in was the Explorer...and let me tell you I had an Explorer...best car ever!!!
@GayUOPXBoy10 Well, maybe when the government wakes up and finds out that manufacturing the battery pack for a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than driving a large vehicle, the Prius will be killed and big wagons will dominate our highways once again!
No I will not, I will never purchase a car newer than 1980, I hate modern music, so only 80's and below, I wish it was the 50's, Quite frankly the 90's and above suck dick. That being said I will show all the panzy's in this world how to properly live. With old school metal, Lifted 3rd gen chevy's and classic muscle cars and wagons.
Didnt check your page to see where you where from.I thought your from the USA.
I love the older the cars, i am not trying to bash em. I was just stating what was true.Old school metal and the days of the classics are gone, sad to say considering they where the good days.
Honestly Everyone cares about safety because there are TO MANY drunks and careless people on the road ..Not sure about ww3 but this place will be over populated soon
@RAJSTA81 I love how the ad states the bumper is stronger for safety,and not lighter for cheapness!What?If modern cars are so great in an impact than why are rednecks everywhere looking for cars like this to smash in derby's?Where are the crash test vids?Go to your local fairs they smash the crap out of these repeatedly at low speeds and high speeds depending on track conditions!Ever guess what a Honda Fit or Chevy Volt might look like after a deer collision?
No, just no. Modern cars commit suicide to save the occupants. These old cars are ultra-rigid everywhere, as opposed to just the ever-strengthening passenger cabin. I'd rather the engine bay crumple like a sardine can so less force transfers into the passenger compartment. As to your question? A modern car's front might take more damage from a deer hit, but the passengers will fare better than in an older car of the same size.
@antonisbob Yes, actually. You know how Buick is an "all- American" brand? Well it's not. Buick Was formerly McLaughlin (a Canadian carriage company based just north of Oshawa), then McLaughlin-Buick, then just Buick. Buick is 100% Canadian.
Honestly no one cares about saftey. There is already too many people on this earth I say we kill about 3 Billion of 'em. That will un-crowd things a bit, Bring on WWIII!
We had a fully loaded '72 with dual facing rear seats that my parents bought new & kept 'til '85, We drove all the way from Maryland out here to Oregon in that baby in '79, My sister & I used to play Godzilla in the way-back,The air conditioning in that car could literally transform it into a mobile meat locker!!!
We had a '65 with no wayback seats and then upgraded to a '71 with the dual facing seats. Was fun to sit back there and terrorize the following traffic. These were heavy, safe cars as I remember. Many met their end in demoltion derbys, a testament to how sturdily they were built. Mom would actually seek out dips in the road and hit them at 30mph + yelling 'dippity-doo'. The headliner of the '71 was stained by many a tossed drink. She must have gone through shocks like crazy too...
naah, those rear seats wouldn't muster with todays overprotective parents doting over their kids. But guess what? An awful lot of kids still made it to adulthood safely without baby seats. One reason might be because there was actually a real car surrounding you and not styrofoam baffles hiding behind body color platic like we have today.
@dlotboy Guess what, relatively speaking, alot of those kids also were killed. They didn't make it safely to adulthood, they made it luckily. Today's cars are much safer than those old cars. It's a fact, look at the crash test videos.
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wow, that old travel trailer probably weighs around 5000 pounds. its a shame familys drive in these minivans and neutered crossovers now.
999equalizer 2 days ago
wow, that old travel trailer probably weighs around 5000 pounds. its a shame familys drive in these minivans and neutered crossovers now.
999equalizer 2 days ago
wow, towing a 500 pound camper trailer. try that with one of these Tupperware minivans and see what happens
999equalizer 2 days ago
What a beautiful car... too bad Ford ever stopped making full size LTDs and their wagon counterparts. I think Ford should reintroduce the Country Squire, based on the current Taurus SHO, complete with AWD and wood paneling. How hot would that be?
JET997u 3 weeks ago
If anything could be called the definitive American station wagon, I think it would have to be the Ford Country Squire. The 1973 model was the best-selling Country Squire of all time, with a total of 142,983 produced.
iswc27 1 month ago
my parents bought one of these during the energy crisis of 1973 when people were waiting in lines a mile long just to buy gas. Ford was practically giving these away.
msmithstud 2 months ago
i have a 72 squire jeeeej
chestrockwell13 3 months ago
How badass is the 1970s Country Squire?
Snake Plissken drove one.
'nuff said.
MrHongKongBuffet 3 months ago
It's the family truckster!
TheMan1510 3 months ago
Dayyyyum, no need for a truck to haul the camper....Just use the family wagon, lol.
buffaloborn71 3 months ago
Indeed cars today have no almost no style whatsoever. The country squire was one stylish wagon!
ntxguy 3 months ago
Those back seats would be great in a collision.
jgrab1 3 months ago
all of a sudden i really want a 73 'squire
zizzlefiggle1469 3 months ago
Holy hell...the hood is the size of a king bed!
TheRacerlover 3 months ago
i wonder what she had him doing next??... battleship on wheels... Chevrolet had the third seat facing forward
irish89055 4 months ago
My parents had the Mercury version of this when I was a kid. I remember liking it a lot, especially the seats in the very back. But I ended up spotting the engine on fire when we made a stop at a convenience store one time (because I was short enough to see it). The car didn't stay in our hands long after that.
MaestroTJS 5 months ago
the '73 had belts for every passenger even the dual facing rear seats. A great car for everybody back then.
19553129 5 months ago
Smashed my finger in that tailgate in 77....to date its still looks all crooked!
default99telecom 7 months ago
1 viewer drives a fugly minivan :)
knaagi 8 months ago 3
@knaagi Or a ricer!
fatalcoolfatalcool 4 months ago
I love my 73 Squire, but dislike 9MPG.. Still an awesome car to cruise in. vinny.us/73ford/
VinnyHuckaba 8 months ago
Cars today are so ugly.
OldCarsAreBest 8 months ago
I would've clocked the bitch.
drstuartschneider 8 months ago
What a car!!
Very beautyful!
deeckhardt 9 months ago
@deeckhardt just like the woman
14jmen 6 months ago
I love how they try to set an example by wearing seat belts. I guess they get the point across, but it has no impact because only 5% of drivers and passengers wore seat belts in the 1970's. Those seats in the far back I'm pretty sure were never made with seat belts. I've thought about getting one, but I don't know if passengers in the far back get an exemption from the seat belt law because the car was built after 1968.
PigsInBlanket 10 months ago
I bet if they started to build these again exactly the same as the one in the commercial, people would buy. I would.
counterclockwise123 10 months ago
@counterclockwise123 Count me in. I love the old station wagons. They're so much cooler than the crossovers of today.
PigsInBlanket 10 months ago
fishies?
XavierBrezniak 11 months ago
Grand memories in my '74 Country Squire. Love to ride with the windows down and the back window down. I want one again.
Sincopare 11 months ago
god what an awesome car! I miss the old big station wagons... :(
fordxbgtfalcon 11 months ago
I love those power vent windows!
TheFamilyTruckster 1 year ago
Ford made the best wagons, and the Country Squire was king of the hill. Too bad they don't still produce a full-size wagon. Mercury's Colony Park was a fine looking vehicle too.
JET997u 1 year ago
Ford Flex? NO!! Bring back the Country Squire, fake wood & ALL!!
quirpco 1 year ago 2
I bet that thing got about 6 mpg. My dad had a 73 Gran Torino wagon that got about 9.
RabidKoala 1 year ago
@RabidKoala We had a 73 LTD Country Squire wagon with the 351 V8. It got mileage in the low teens in town, and high teens on highway trips.
JET997u 1 year ago
That lady was hi-jacking the car and the dealer! LOL!
GayUOPXBoy10 1 year ago
@GayUOPXBoy10 I would've done the same. I'll go to jail for a Country Squire.
quirpco 1 year ago
@quirpco In the USA, I am surprised Obama doesn't send people who drive these cars to jail...
GayUOPXBoy10 1 year ago
@GayUOPXBoy10 Nah...he just took their cars away and put sand and water in their perfectly good engines in order to justify sending them to the junkyard. Oh, and then he paid the owners back less than half what their cars were worth.
quirpco 1 year ago
@quirpco Tell me about it... what a way to destroy our heritage and culture....notice how most of those cars were American...and the most traded in was the Explorer...and let me tell you I had an Explorer...best car ever!!!
GayUOPXBoy10 1 year ago
@GayUOPXBoy10 Well, maybe when the government wakes up and finds out that manufacturing the battery pack for a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than driving a large vehicle, the Prius will be killed and big wagons will dominate our highways once again!
quirpco 1 year ago
@quirpco And I would love to pour that juice into the Prius and stomping on that gas like they did to those poor beautiful babies in 2009!
GayUOPXBoy10 1 year ago
what a beautiful beautiful vehicle!!!!
stationwagonfreak 1 year ago
@stationwagonfreak - dang, I meant to click VOTE UP, but accidentially hit vote down. :(
Toni7859 11 months ago
No thought of safety back in those days.....
RAJSTA81 1 year ago
@RAJSTA81
Thats a good thing.
antonisbob 1 year ago
@antonisbob
Yeah sure....If your trying to kill your own kids
RAJSTA81 1 year ago
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antonisbob 1 year ago
@RAJSTA81
Im pretty sure that a large car such as this, With a solid steel frame, Is much safer than a uni-body, plastic bumper'd jap peice of shit..
antonisbob 1 year ago
@antonisbob
LMAO...you sure are mislead!!
The solid steel frame POS are disgraceful in accident!!
Many tests have proven that.Get with the times!
Those plastic bumpers have a reinforced steel inner bumper which can handle GREATER impacts that the typical old SHITY metal bumpers.
The old bumpers where designed for very low speed impacts and thats it!!
anything greater than a few mph and they where USELESS..
RAJSTA81 1 year ago
@RAJSTA81
No I will not, I will never purchase a car newer than 1980, I hate modern music, so only 80's and below, I wish it was the 50's, Quite frankly the 90's and above suck dick. That being said I will show all the panzy's in this world how to properly live. With old school metal, Lifted 3rd gen chevy's and classic muscle cars and wagons.
antonisbob 1 year ago
@antonisbob
I never said for you to purchase a new car.
Didnt check your page to see where you where from.I thought your from the USA.
I love the older the cars, i am not trying to bash em. I was just stating what was true.Old school metal and the days of the classics are gone, sad to say considering they where the good days.
Honestly Everyone cares about safety because there are TO MANY drunks and careless people on the road ..Not sure about ww3 but this place will be over populated soon
RAJSTA81 1 year ago
@RAJSTA81 I love how the ad states the bumper is stronger for safety,and not lighter for cheapness!What?If modern cars are so great in an impact than why are rednecks everywhere looking for cars like this to smash in derby's?Where are the crash test vids?Go to your local fairs they smash the crap out of these repeatedly at low speeds and high speeds depending on track conditions!Ever guess what a Honda Fit or Chevy Volt might look like after a deer collision?
NYredneckhillbilly 1 year ago
@NYredneckhillbilly
No, just no. Modern cars commit suicide to save the occupants. These old cars are ultra-rigid everywhere, as opposed to just the ever-strengthening passenger cabin. I'd rather the engine bay crumple like a sardine can so less force transfers into the passenger compartment. As to your question? A modern car's front might take more damage from a deer hit, but the passengers will fare better than in an older car of the same size.
Manimal347 1 year ago
@RAJSTA81 The guy that hits a deer in an old Squire drives his car home and eats it!
NYredneckhillbilly 1 year ago
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@antonisbob
Oh by the way,
those uni-body, plastic bumper'd jap peice of shit have higher safety ratings than anything you guys have produced!!!
Seems that you guys havent changed since the 40's when it comes to safety
/watch?v=lB0araA0T_k
RAJSTA81 1 year ago
@RAJSTA81
"Any of you guys produced" Um... Excuse me but I don't beleve there has been a Canadian car manufacturer before..
antonisbob 1 year ago
@antonisbob Yes, actually. You know how Buick is an "all- American" brand? Well it's not. Buick Was formerly McLaughlin (a Canadian carriage company based just north of Oshawa), then McLaughlin-Buick, then just Buick. Buick is 100% Canadian.
Canada kicks ass :D
afrocurl1995 1 year ago
@RAJSTA81
Honestly no one cares about saftey. There is already too many people on this earth I say we kill about 3 Billion of 'em. That will un-crowd things a bit, Bring on WWIII!
antonisbob 1 year ago
@antonisbob You know it!!!!
GayUOPXBoy10 1 year ago
Today's Tupperware boxes on wheels are so PATHETIC and BORING!!!
ford9572 1 year ago 13
We had a fully loaded '72 with dual facing rear seats that my parents bought new & kept 'til '85, We drove all the way from Maryland out here to Oregon in that baby in '79, My sister & I used to play Godzilla in the way-back,The air conditioning in that car could literally transform it into a mobile meat locker!!!
ford9572 1 year ago
We had a '65 with no wayback seats and then upgraded to a '71 with the dual facing seats. Was fun to sit back there and terrorize the following traffic. These were heavy, safe cars as I remember. Many met their end in demoltion derbys, a testament to how sturdily they were built. Mom would actually seek out dips in the road and hit them at 30mph + yelling 'dippity-doo'. The headliner of the '71 was stained by many a tossed drink. She must have gone through shocks like crazy too...
skog63 1 year ago
And that Ford salesman was never seen or heard from again to this day.
useaol 1 year ago
naah, those rear seats wouldn't muster with todays overprotective parents doting over their kids. But guess what? An awful lot of kids still made it to adulthood safely without baby seats. One reason might be because there was actually a real car surrounding you and not styrofoam baffles hiding behind body color platic like we have today.
dlotboy 1 year ago
@dlotboy Guess what, relatively speaking, alot of those kids also were killed. They didn't make it safely to adulthood, they made it luckily. Today's cars are much safer than those old cars. It's a fact, look at the crash test videos.
losercust 1 year ago
@losercust Where do you see the crash test videos? Thanks
1969pontiac1 1 year ago
My granddad had this car. Same paint and everything. I learned to drive in this car, red dirt backroads of Ga. Damn, right out of my childhood...
AdamEtheredge 1 year ago
I don't think those rear seats would fly these days!
grumpybb 2 years ago
Nice of Ford to stash that spare tire out of the way. Wouldn't want the Country Squire to take up too much space.
PeerlessPaavo 2 years ago
Cool. My parents had either a 71 or 72 Country Squire wagon. That fake wood on the sides started peeling off after a few years.
Synthetrix 2 years ago