Estates/Shooting Brakes/Station Wagons Gallery (Originals are best)

[myglaren]

They look out of place on the AX but I like them on the XM.
Could do with some on the Mazda, the headlights are very poor. Never going to happen of course.

[mickthemaverick]

Here's another unusual one which you could argue qualifies for this thread

Details here

[CitroJim]

Suicide doors!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Bond Mini-car day continues....

£2,200 could have secured one of these today...

Neil

[Rp0thejester]

Oh come on, if that was yellow....it would be trotters

[mickthemaverick]

I missed this when it came up for sale but worth a look!! There are similar models earlier in the thread but not with this colour scheme

BFTW

Details here

[NewcastleFalcon]

The other one, on the thread was this

The main feature of that one really needs to be noted the "Interiors and Dashboards ( Interesting and Awful)" thread, strangely at both ends of the spectrum. Quite a head turner, but generally more "aargh!" than "ooh!"

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

A now Rare Estate up for auction at Mathewsons.

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lo ... ?lot=28170

Bit of 1974 publicity for it, and the marketing phrase used at the time.

The 2300 version was apparently faster from 30-50 than a selected Ferrari and a selected Porsche.

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

My ex Father-in Law had one and offered to sell it to me for £1300 but I found a comparable option for £1.30 :

Spoiler: show

BFTW

[NewcastleFalcon]

Only 33 licenced Magnum's of all classes on the roads of the United Kingdom, so the 3-door estate version is indeed a rarity.

https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/family/va ... e=vauxhall

I suspect this 1976 variation is even rarer only 197 ever made...the "dropsnoot" Vauxall Magnum Sportshatch 3-door Estate.



1976 Vauxhall Magnum Sports Hatch 2.3 Front
Vauxford, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Plenty of opportunities for noticing Estate Cars in the wild, and taking an original photo for the thread, but very few opportunities to get one of an Austin/Morris 1100/1300 estate.

As can be seen from the thread title the humble estate has a number of different names. Austin adds to this with the "Countryman" and Morris with the "Traveller". A more modern name purlogned for the estate is "Tourer" while "Traveller" is largely if not completely metaphorically given the boot, but yes "Countryman" survives to 2024. Have a look out for it in a familiarity phenomenon way, see if one pops out coincidentally over the coming days

Classiccarcatalogue https://www.classiccarcatalogue.com/

Austin 1100/1300 Countryman	Morris 1100/1300 Traveller

Neil

[mickthemaverick]

Popping up in today's sale, a bit of wishful thinking I believe!!

https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic ... state&nbsp;

[NewcastleFalcon]

Huntsman was not as long lived as Countryman



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

A double Countryman spot today within 20 yards of each other. The first of course took pride of place on the familiarity phenomenom official record here....viewtopic.php?p=803433#p803433

Look at those blue skies and fluffy white clouds reflected in the glossy blackness and the rear window glass

Neil

[CitroJim]