1972-’73 Volvo 1800ES
Hemmings faithful, we hear you loud and clear: Old station wagons are cool. They let you roll down the road in family-friendly style, comfortably cart home your latest large purchase, and collect People’s Choice trophies at the ice cream stand cruise night. Vintage domestic wagons are still plentiful because America once led the world in wagon production. In the last 20 years, Big Three automakers have been on again/off again and seem to have forsaken the wagon altogether in favor of SUVs. The Europeans (as well as Japan’s Subaru) have faithfully carried the torch for station wagons, though, building new models for decades. Among the Europeans, no automaker has been as wagon-centric as Sweden’s Volvo. The brand’s car-based haulers are stylish, mechanically stable, sometimes sporty, and,
