No vehicle class has been more affected by the rise of the SUV than the station wagon. Once a fixture of American roads, the body style was dealt a serious blow by the introduction of the mini-van ...

The Cholla Power Plant stands just down the road from where Baird, 88, has been building a museum to showcase covered wagons, weathered farm implements and other remnants of frontier days.

In fact, the Hollywood icon could regularly be seen cruising around town in a Pontiac station wagon — one bearing the name plate "Grand Safari." Pontiac introduced the tank of a station wagon in ...