The Truckster that sold at Barrett for over $90,000 was one that was built specifically for Beverly DeAngelo. She owned it for many years. She was there when it sold.
If you watch the Directors Cut of the movie Chevy and others talk about the car. They actually drove the car across country during the filming of the movie. It was not trailered! I love that!
I never realised the Truckster made a cameo in the opening of Married With Children. Actually, I think the Dads in both would gotten along pretty well.
Actually no, Clark would have punched Al bundy out for numerous possible reasons. Clark, with all his flaws, was a very dedicated family man who loved family life and was mostly happy with it. Al was a bitter man who resented his family. Also, al would have surely commented on Clark's wife's hotness and it wouldn't go over well
The gradual trashing of the Truckster as the movie progresses is so much a part of what makes this movie a classic. The roof rack seemed to function well though. Don't remember the old lady's body falling off
The car lot where Clark picked up the Truckster was actually a Chrysler dealer on Brand Blvd. in Glendale, CA. At some point in the years that followed, it changed to Star Ford. I can't seem to post a link to my picture, but in 2007, I picked up a newly delivered Mustang on the exact same spot as 00:32. (I've had much better luck than Clark - in fact, I still have it. :)
@@CarStarz42 When I asked the salesman to have the car parked in that spot when I came to pick it up, he knew there had been a movie filmed there many years before but didn't know which one. :)
I have a huge soft spot in my heart for this vehicle. Growing up and coming of driving age in 1986, we also had a 1982 mercury colony park station wagon i learned to drive in, sister model to this country squire. So i could more than relate to the whole griswald family. I absolutely loved what they did to the front and the entire vehicle. I also like to believe when clark was looking for the fuel door at the gas station, the blue wagon on the other side of the pump from clark was the Antarctic blue super sports wagon he originally wanted. Great video!
We had an 83 Colony Park, which my parents were forced to buy to accommodate me, having been born in 84. Prior to that, they and my 3 siblings made due with a 64 Mustang and a 79 Lincoln Versailles to get around 😁
Rusty actually said 50 yards so that would have 150 ft. He was pretty spot on. Other than that, enjoyable video. I watch this movie a few times a year, every year.
I feel like it was replaced with a Taurus wagon in Christmas Vacation, just so we could see Chevy Chase driving a Ford. My friend bought me a "Lou Glutz Motors" front plate for my Sentra at a convention we went to. No regrets!
Well i never guessed that someone would really want this oddball of wagon but turns out there fans for truckster even after 40 years is incredible fact anyway thanks for the video and have nice day bye now.
@CarStarz42 Thanks for responding carstarz and a couple of things to ask: Do you know there's a website where your favorite tv/ movie is built on a small scale and second will you do cuda form Phantasm movie.
@@milfordh.mercado2787 There's a diecast car brand called GreenLight that I like who make a ton of quality movie diecast car replicas and yes, Phantasm is on my long list too 😉👍
love the movies- like tha car- always wonder how many people today messin around with too small cars- we had a caprice wagon and loved it- let the wagons be alive !
We had a '79 LTD wagon growing up, it had the 351W engine, though it was not a Squire with the wood trim. The Truckster (s) started as Squires, and most of the '79-'80 Squires I've seen had the optional 351W, so it may not have had a 302 - unless it was a 1982 model, in which case the 351 was not available.
I owned a 1985 Crown Vic LTD that had a similar front end as the LTD wagons of that time period, and had a 302 V8 under the hood!! It was a wonderful car for a four door land yacht, though my car was NOT a station wagon....and looked like a cop car, with grey paint!!
They also misquoted the weight @ 2 tons. I have the '79 sedan (marquis brougham, 302, 142hp). It's 5500 gvwr and I imagine the wagons are a touch heavier still.
@@sometimesleela5947 GVWR means gross vehicle weight rating, or the total allowable weight of the vehicle, passengers, and cargo. It's always quite a bit more than curb weight, or the weight of the vehicle empty. I don't know the weight of a '79 sedan, but if I had to guess, it's around 3700-3800 lbs. Ford downsized the full size cars that year, and shed a lot of weight on the new Panther platform.
I had an 87 LTD Crown Victoria Wagon and it had a 351 with dual exhaust. Car was light blue with a dark blue interior, no fake wood side panels. A very comfortable car to drive, I wish I still owned it.
@@briansearles4473< The only engine available for the 1987 Ford Wagon/Crown was a fuel Injected 5.0 liter V8. If you opted for the trailer tow package. you got a 3:55 rear axle and dual exhaust. Once again. no 351 option.
You're welcome; yeah I didn't find any write ups about the wheel wobble, but most likely offset them cheaply with spacers/extensions or something since they didn't drive it like that for very far at all, fortunately, lol.😁
The Histic Auto Attractions Museum in Roscoe, IL is a "must visit" for movie and television car enthusiasts everywhere.. Great episode as always! Thanks for the wonderful content!
Loved this film from day one release in the UK. Always thought it was called the family 'thruster'. Favourite line from the film; 'that man has given his life for food additives', like it was something to admire! Whenever the family gets together quotes from the film are frequently used.
This may be the most entertaining video you've done. No one seems to want to go to this car for subject material unless they are trying to sell a copy. I did wonder what were used for the rear side windows and if they closed the larger openings with metal.
Thanks, I try my best to make every video a bit better than the last as I learn to do more with video editing 😉 Yeah, that rear window area is apparently the more difficult part of a replica build.
I had a 1977 Chrysler Town & Country wagon with the reversed third seat. 6000 pounds of it. It got all seven of us around town but 180 mile trips to Chicago required pulling over to refill the tank. Our next car was a Dodge Caravan.
Fact #11 the car was a Ford but was being sold at a Chrysler dealership because the WQFT was actually making fun of the 1979 Chrysler LeBaron Town and Country Wagon.
This Truckster resembles the new FORD pickups with their in your face 4 big lights and the small signal light between them, that can hardly be seen in use because of the glaring lights above and below.
And my other favorite lines were! Look at that car! Yeah that's the Family Truckster, like those green walls! Yeah we had a little trouble in St Louis! 😁🤣
As someone who watched Married With Children when it was on, and am currently rewatching the entire series on Hulu, I never once noticed the opening was taken from Vacation 🤷. I guess it doesn't help that I usually just skip past the opening credits...
I honestly think that shade of green was a little bit ahead of its time. Anytime I go outside I usually see at least 3 modern cars with a very similar shade of green. The traditional darker shade only started coming back about 2 years ago.
I always wondered about that weird looking station wagon on the highway during the intro to Married with Children…I always thought it was Al’s car 😂 To be honest, having the Family Truckster make a cameo in Married with Children seems fitting, as if they both exist in the same “universe”.
My Dad had a '79 LTD Country Squire. Red with red interior. He was in an accident with it (he was ok) and they totaled it....... best day of my childhood. I hated that thing after this movie came out, all the kids at school made fun of me with the family truckster lol
Another "contributing factor" to the decline of Station Wagon sales is simply too the lack of station wagons available for sale as well!! AND this is due to the fact that a lot of station wagons in the 1980s saw "life" in the demolition derby arena as well!!! Because of their large bodies, they were ideal for slamming into other cars in these events!! And a lot of station wagons, that people no longer wanted, got destroyed because of this!!!
True indeed; I went to many demo-derbies back in the 90s at least and the majority of the vehicles were certainly modded station wagons for sure, lol 😁
I don't think the movie contributed to the decline of the station wagon. The movie just hit at just the right time when consumer sentiment was shifting. The rise of the station wagon began in the 1950s and peaked in the late 60s and early 70s just when the baby boom kids were coming of age. As the 70s wore on families got smaller as the baby boom ended and thus the need for large family station wagons that could haul six kids disappeared. The station wagons themselves also declined in quality thanks to the oil crisis and government regulations. Early wagons from the 60s were big but were still powerful and stylish. But by the early 80s they had evolved in cheese boxes on wheels that had the performance characteristics of a dump truck. So when Family Vacation came out it struck a chord with the public who was thinking the exact some thing as the producers. The American station wagon had basically become a joke that fully deserved the Lampooning it got.
Love to find out about the old vista wagon Clark drive in, if you watch the movie, there are 2 wagons, one Clark drove and one crushed, the crushed one an ivory white with a hitch, the drove in one was a rally white. Could we see more cars soon, the chevrolet van from cheech and chongs next movie, or the 64 from up in smoke, 79 camaro from fast times?
Yep, I have a large and ever growing to do list and those you mentioned are on it to look into eventually. I'm just a one man show here with hundreds of movie/TV cars that I want to cover, so I'll most likely be at this for years to come
The most interesting part is the correlation between wagon sales and the release of the film. Not to say it's directly related. Simply pointing at the relationship between media and how it effects public perception.
I friggin love everything about the Wagon Queen Faimly Truckster, I’m really surprised with its general cultural popularity that no one‘s ever made a digital, full size, or model replica of the car Clark actually ordered, the sport one with blue metallic paint, that would be quite something as well!
Great facts, would have liked a small section on their previous car as it looked more practical with observation dome and funny that the stacked lights were on the mini vans that you show for sales
I think much of the decline of the Wagon in the 80s had to do with many of the smaller fwd cars of the 80s not having the 3rd row of seats in the back and basically being a hatchback with a bigger trunk rather than a true wagon with the 3rd row of seats. If you needed more seats than a regular sedan they didn't have it
@@MGlass-xg9no yes first the minivan and later the SUV took over from it but even as or slightly before the first minivans where invented much less became popular in the mid 80s or so some of the early 80s and maybe even very late 70s unibody fwd "wagons" started the no 3rd row big hatchback instead of a true wagon trend.
Despite how ugly people think the truckster is, It's actually one of my all-time favorite movie/tv cars. I love station wagons! I would take a wagon over a minivan any day of the week!
You know, I never realized there was anything out of the ordinary about the vehicle they drove, and that movie… I thought it was a caprice or LTD style wagon. That’s it. Why did they go through all the trouble? Do you know maybe there are more cars like that out there now as a result, I am sure it would be cool to re-create.
The 302 was a Windsor. Windsors were made from 1961 until about 2000. In terms of the Truckster, they were commonly called the 5.0L starting around 1978, but still same basic block. The 302 Windsor was used in a ton of different models, and from ‘68 to ‘91 in many wagons.
@@Racer997 Ford Motor Company never formally used the designation and it was only used casually to differentiate between the "335" series 351 cid and the V-90 351 cid. Otherwise you are correct.
@@hillbillyscholar8126 Yep. Although informally called Windsor by enthusiasts because they were primarily produced in Windsor, Ontario (among other places), they were not designated as Windsors by Ford. They were also informally known as Challengers.
@@Racer997 "Challenger"!!! Now that is a name I have not heard in forever! I recall the good old days of buying used V-8's at scrapyards for $175.00 each, you pull your choice. Wow, I'm getting old...lol.
