There you have them, four representative American four-door station wagons from the mid-1950s. Which do you like best? One of the popular, bread-and-butter family haulers from Ford and GM?

Back in the day, it wasn't uncommon for station wagons to have fold-away third-row seats. Ford was the king of this: From their late 1950s Country Squire wagons, up through 1970s Gran Torinos and ...