If you were a teenage boy in the early ’60s, chances are good that you would not have wanted to be seen in your mom’s pink-and-white 1958 station wagon. Color and parental ownership aside, a station wagon in 1962 was what a minivan is today—anathema to childless young adults trying to look cool. The 1958 model year was not known for the quality or style of its offerings.
Yet here is this car, a near-perfect recreation of that 1958 mom-mobile by the man who learned to drive in its twin as a teen. It speaks to the essential quality of the Pontiac design that owner Ted Miskell remembered his mother’s ’58 so fondly, that after a half century he chose to track down a replacement to recondition. He now motors the restored result fearlessly, regularly, and proudly.
“I always had a love for that car,” he says. “Who falls in love with a wagon?”
Wagons, of course, have become sought-after collector cars these days, but that wasn’t always the case. Frequently the most expensive offering in any lineup,
