I had a 1959 Rambler American station wagon, bought and sold for $200 with 2 years of trouble-free driving sandwiched inbetween. I was embarrassed about it in college, but more lately I miss it (along with a lot of others). Front and rear bumpers were the same part. Left and right door-window frames (an aluminum extrusion, sort of a semi-hardtop look) were the same part. The carburetor bolted to the top of the flat head. The exhaust pipe clamped to the side of the engine block. It was a little bigger but not unlike my Type III Squareback.
That said, Crosley firsts:
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Crosley introduced several "firsts" in the American automobile industry, including the first use of the term 'Sport Utility' in 1948 (albeit on an open model based on the wagon, not a wagon on a truck chassis); first mass-market single overhead camshaft (SOHC) engine in 1946; first slab-sided postwar car, also in 1946; first all steel-bodied wagon in 1947; first American car to be fitted with 4-wheel caliper type disc brakes in the 1949 model year (Chrysler Imperial introduced four-wheel disc brakes as standard equipment on Crown Imperials at the beginning of the 1949 model year, but they were not of the caliper type); and the first American sports car, the Hotshot, in the 1949 model year.[2] 1950 brought the Farm-O-Road model, a 63-inch (1,600 mm) wheelbase utility vehicle predictive of the John Deere Gator and other UTVs.
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