The first factory station wagon, according to Stationwagons.com, was a 1937 Ford Model A. Station wagons hit their peak in the 1960s, when it seem like everyfamilyhad 2.2 children and a big wagon with a stretched wheelbase and hideous fake wood siding.
Not the registered china my wife and I had spent months fussing over, but it's going to be every bit the family heirloom--and something that I actually use.