Wagons ho! Our friends over at Hooniverse have dug up this 14,000 original mile, ’71 Plymouth Custom Suburban Wagon survivor. Changing social mores and a couple of fuel crisis’s were not kind to these old Highland Park “Conestogas,” and unfortunately, most were banished to the crusher.
Happily, that’s not the case with this survivor you see here. Located in Farmingdale, NJ, it’s purportedly from an estate with just two previous owners.
This is a sparsely optioned, mid-level Custom Suburban model sporting V-8 power, a 3-speed Torqueflite and a paint hue best described as “Tobacco.” Seller says fuel gauge is on the blink and the front seat has a tear but other than that, it’s ready to roll.
Chrysler revamped its full-size models for 1969 and adopted a new design language called “Fuselage Styling,” which incorporated aviation inspired, curved uni-bodies. The station wagons models really leveraged the spacey new styling by integrating swoopy D-pillars with a roof mounted “spoiler” designed to keep rear window clean. Very high tech for its day.
This Plymouth struck a chord with your esteemed author as I learned to drive on an almost identical,1969 version of this wagon. It was essentially the same color too. I can personally attest to the impact “Fuselage Styling” had back in the day. When my Dad came home with our new, curvy ’69 Plymouth Wagon and pulled into the driveway, our old, slab sided ’65 Plymouth Wagon suddenly looked like a frumpy old apple cart. For more details, go to “Fuselage Styling” a site from Germany that has the complete history of this era of Mopar styling.
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