In this installment of Wagon Snippets, I could not resists including two gems from bygone days, each produced a single model year apart from the same, once-proud halls of GM’s Chevrolet Division. Back when one was enticed to see the U.S.A., some 198,066 customers chose the wagon as their means in 1960. Four were offered that model year: the Nomad, Parkwood, Kingswood and the Brookwood.
Spotted at this year’s Spring Carlisle was this four-door, six-passenger Brookwood, which was slid into the Biscayne series of automobiles; it was also offered as a two-door, six-passenger model. Both were available in straight-six or V-8 configuration, but to be honest, we’re not sure which plant was under the hood here. All that was listed was “Make Offer” for the questionably complete wagon - rot and all. It reminded me of some of the cars that were used in a demolition derby at the long ago closed Islip Speedway (Islip, New York - closed in 1984) back when ABC had cameras there in the early Seventies. Along with the Figure 8 races, the demo derbies were aired during their Wide World of Sports telecasts (remember them?). Summer beater, return it to its glory, or one crazy stock-looking sleeper?
Mere feet away - as the crow flies - was this superbly pristine 1961 Parkwood, which was retained as part of the Bel Air series from the previous year. Also unchanged was the straight-six or V-8 means of motivation, though total wagon production fell to 168,935 units. According to the seller of this example, it’s a six-passenger model with roughly 93,000 miles showing on the odometer. In storage since 1989, the engine had been recently rebuilt, mechanicals were refreshed (the seller’s words, not ours), and with exception of the single repaint, it was in factory-stock, original condition. It also contained the Hi-Thrift Six, backed by a column-shifted automatic; a $14,999 asking price was scribed across the windshield.
According to the latest figures we were able to crunch, a condition #1 Brookwood from 1960 is currently valued at roughly $14,500, while a condition #1 Parkwood from 1961 brings $15,000 (A disclaimer: that’s the value for each V-8 powered wagon - straight-six powered cars tend to bring roughly 5 percent less).
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