We are currently working on our ‘59 Ranch Wagon! Giving it some new life since it sat out in a field for some years, it’s such a fun car for our kids!

My parents went thru 3 station wagons when I was growing up. All used models. With 4 kids they needed a roomy car. A 1968 Plymouth fury lasted the longest, even after the engine spun a rod bearing (mom drove it low on oil). Dad replaced the bearing and they drove it several more years. I didn't realize that one day they'd be all gone. I miss em.

My Grandfather had the same car, I remember riding in it at age 7 , It was brand new. Those were great days. Every Part made In America.

My mother said many years later our 64 Country Sedan was a gas hog! 😂😂 I barely remember the car. The round taillights were what I remembered most. Dad said it had the 352 FE.

I can’t tell you how much I LOVE these. Thank you so very much for loading them. My favorite thing to do is watch them in the car while eating take out. I vote for getting the “snazzy” Thunderbird, along with the practical station wagon.

I have a book produced by Ford called "Station Wagon Living". I believe it's from 1959. Ford had a huge market share in the wagon segment and very well deservedly so. We had a 59 Ranchero, later a 60 Ford wagon.

What I want to know is did Mom and Dad get the model with the Thunderbird engine? Because that would be snazzy! I just love these old films they're really fun to watch kind of corny too but that's how it was back then. We were also a station wagon family. Having owned two or three different ones. The generation today will never know the joy of just pulling over someplace in a nice spot and having your mom break out the picnic lunch and everybody sitting around the tailgate of the station wagon and having their lunch together as a family. That is a piece of Americana that is sorely needed nowadays. Sit around the back of the car talking together having a lunch and putting those cell phones down for a while.

"Hey Beatle.. do you suppose that's real soup up there in that bowl?"

In Canada, Ford had a simular called Meteor, a division of Ford Canada.

My dad had c a used 59 Ford wagon like this. Pretty shot by the time he got it but he nursed it for many years until.I got him a 63 Valiant with the Slant 6 and 350k miles on it. When he passed, many of his buddies wanted that Valiant.😂

i wish all that my partner and i argued about was buying the same damn Ford.

By 1959 Ford was beginning to become "America's Police Car" and the '59 I think was used by a lot of departments,at least to me it seemed a sort of "muscle car" at my Father's Brother's house there were two '59s for a while,both sort of silvery blue-gray as I recall,one was his "take home" Fairfax Police Department car,full of mysterious radios and one was his own personal car,I think it had the same powertrain as the police car it resembled those cars were "tough" (I doubt that the handling,braking or even acceleration would have been up to the standards of some cars of today however- didn't even have radial tires yet?) later I seem to remember he offered to sell his to my Father but Father didn't want something "so powerful" I seem to remember although a couple years later my Father ended up owning another '59 two door hardtop convertible interesting that the salesman in the video talks about "the Thunderbird engine" and that the engines had full flow oil filters-I think that had just about become standard on most cars in the past two or three years before 1959 although I think full flow spin on "easy change" oil filters were first pioneered by Chrysler Corporation I think my Uncle (the Policeman) used to put Premium gas in his car unlike what the salesman said about "all the engines use regular"

One Ford dealer training video on salesmanship actually stars Fred MacMurray - this was in '55 or so.

Back then a penny would buy 3 bazooka bubble gums.

Mr Wilson no longer giving out pennies, now giving out $10 bills.😂👍

That woman went to the dealership without her man! What is the world coming to?!

Charlie must've been adopted.. he doesn't sound like anyone else in the family...

You'd think with a nickname like "Beetle" he'd be into Volkswagens. You know at some point he'll own at least one.

My family had a 1959 Ford Ranch Wagon in the powder blue and white two tone.

Beatle: Most irritating son....ever. I do love these vintage ads, though.

Those Ford Y block V8 engines had valve train oiling starvation.

Thats it Im sold!Im buying a new 59 wagon right now

Certainly not a bad car in its day,perhaps a Rambler wagon would have been a bit easier to park,and I think the Ford had a tendency to need a fuel pump replacement at about 60,000 miles

1968 Beatle was killed at Khe Sahn with mortar fire!

Wagons evolved into SUV's.

Car was explained so even a woman could understand it.

Yeh....$50,000 for a new effing car is expensive!

after a Year, he thought, "Should of got a Plymouth"

10:26 she has blue hair. Like, Marge Simpson blue.

The family should have bought a Nash.

Despite what geezers try to tell you cars from that era just plain didn't hold up too well.

A new car after 3 years of owning? You just have never loved your car.