We haven't seen a Ford Fairlane in this series since this '65 sedan, way back in 2010. We see station wagons here all the time, of course, the last couple being this '66 Toyota crown and this '86 Nissan Maxima. Our most recent Detroit station wagon Junkyard Find was this '72 Pinto (or this '60 Valiant, if you don't consider the Pinto to be a proper Detroit station wagon). This '70 Fairlane is rare indeed; I can't recall having seen any midsize Ford wagon of this vintage on the street or in the junkyard for many years.
There's a lot of nostalgia for the big American family wagons among some of us who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, though most of those cars are the full-sized machines built on the Galaxie/Impala/Fury/Ambassador platforms, not the smaller midsize ones such as this Fairlane. My family never had a station wagon, preferring the Chevy Beauville passenger van as our family-outing-mobile.
Windsor V8 with an enormous AC compressor, the same thing you saw under the hoods of millions of Fairlanes, Montegos, Torinos, Cyclones, and Rancheros of the era.
This one took kids to soccer practice 40 years ago.
Guam pride!
It's not rusty and wouldn't be a huge challenge to restore, but the love of old wagons among Generation X types hasn't translated into much real-world willingness to spend money and time fixing them up.
The '68 was an earlier generation of this platform, but it had the same "action size" as the '70.
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