The station wagon still exists on U.S. roadways, but its golden era has long since passed. The wayback seating, long frames, and faux-wood paneling are largely lost to history, replaced by ...

Here's one in a San Francisco Bay Area self-service wrecking yard. The Detroit station wagon with fake-wood exterior paneling had a good long postwar run, but minivans and — increasingly ...

A late-1960s-style big Ford wagon that was still being made in ... The California sun really brutalized the "wood paneling" on this car over the decades, but you can still make out the grain.

These wood-paneled station wagons were more than just a mode of ... Their unique design, with real wood paneling, made them stand out on the sandy shores. As the Beach Boys' music soared in ...