It’s an odd bit of history that, from the 1930s into the 1950s, the prosaic station wagon served as a status symbol by implying that its driver must have something better to drive at home. Odder yet was that a truck manufacturer would be active in that market segment.
Or maybe it wasn’t all that surprising to see International station wagons with bodies built of wood. After all, between 1907 and 1914, International had built passenger cars both in a series of high-wheelers that included trucks and what might be called crossovers for their ability to play either
