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?

Station wagons were once the darling of American families ... Alfa Romeo has been dipping its toes in the wagon segment since the 1950s, but has always done so just to participate.

Available with the Super Red Ram V8 in the mid-1950s, the Dodge Custom Sierra is often regarded as America's first mass-production performance wagon.