Betting on the classic Grand Wagoneer - Business Standard
The stylish family car was not only a prescient innovator in the marketplace, carving out space for players such as Land Rover's Range Rover, but it also had something for everyone. "It has always been a bit of a preppy vehicle, at least as far as your part of the world, the Northeast, is concerned," says Chip Miller, who, along with his founder father, Leon, runs Wagonmaster, a Kerrville (Texas) shop dedicated to buying and... "When you get down here in our part of the world, it was a great ranch vehicle, to be able to drive around the ranch, and then still get on the highway and get into town, so we used them in agriculture. The Grand Wagoneer was the final evolution in one of the longest-running, unchanged vehicle designs in automotive history, tracing its roots - and just about every one of its body panels - back to Brooks Stevens's trapezoidal Jeep Wagoneer of... The signature fake-wood paneling along its flanks - back to a time when big wagons had real wood bodies - is also evocative of a sentimental, but honest all-American past. Source: www.business-standard.com
