Now is.

An ideal.

Time to get ready.

For your next trip. Once when families did not travel in tahos or tell you right.

In that age.

Before mini vans and mandatory seatbelts.

Roomy enough to hold as many as four children.

The true symbol of middle class swagger and awkward mobility was.

This: a new family engineered stationwagon.

A vehicle that could transport suburban families not just to ball fields, car pools, and school plays, but to exotic locations, destinations of their dreams.

New adventures to ride about to the folks back home.

Yay, Verily.

Even.

To Wally World.

Had you been.

Out west this past summer, you might have seen a few true classics on the road from Jackson Hole to Detroit. For us.

It's get on the road and you don't know what's going to happen.

An annual odyssey of the American Automotive Trust.

Car museums become irrelevant. Cars are meant to be driven, keep them on the road.

Every year, the trust chooses a different model car and a different starting point for the journey, always ending in the motor city and as much as possible staying off the interstate. We grew.

Up with family road trips. We said the one we have to do the station rickets. And it's a great adventure and it's full of problems. You break down. All of a sudden, the Caprese just overheated.

Trust chairman David Madara.

If we hadn't broken down, we wouldn't have met this young woman and learned what she wanted to do.

What brought you into.

Auto.

Mechanics? I honestly just thought it would be cool. It's probably been the best thing I've ever done.

So the breakdown was wonderful.

Trust members, perhaps the only people who find breakdowns a blessing.

It's still threatening.

Kaylee diagnosed the fuel leak on this car and she was so knowledgeable and so cheerful. She did a great job. If that.

Doesn't fix it hopefully it slows you down enough to get back to Detroit.

We caught up with the trust at Devil's Tower, Wyoming, and if memory.

Serves.

Wasn't it a crazed Richard Dreyfus?

In a station wagon, racing to meet the aliens here in close encounters of the third kind. We encountered neither aliens nor Dreyfus. You don't.

See this from an airplane seat, you know? Yeah. And we've got so many places in America like this that people never experienced. They never get behind.

The wheel and just go. Riding in one of these cars is like being in a time machine. The memories come flooding back, says trust member Diane Fleiss Schneider.

What a beauty.

Are you ready?

Especially a stationway.

We could each choose a place to sit. We argued who would sit in the way back. If you're.

Sitting in the back row, you can wave at the people.

Behind you. Oh, yeah. We did. Oh, yeah. We made all kinds of.

Faces at them. Yeah. A joy indeed. Look at this bad boy. But the trust also serves to encourage young people to take a look under the hood, fall in love with the past. Could your mom.

Come and pick you up in.

This thing? In Sundance, Wyoming, the high school students were plenty curious and plenty knowledgeable. We don't have much in there. Had any of these cars needed work, they'd have been in capable hands.

I love what we do at America's Automotive Trust because we're encouraging young people to get involved to learn how to repair these old vehicles. So when I'm dead and gone, we carry that on to a next generation.

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