1952 Chevrolet COE Suburban

image credit Greg Gjerdingen

Years produced: 1936-present Original starting price: $685 In the early days of the automobile, the station wagon was literally a car you took to get home from a train station, and it had a wooden box on the back to hold luggage. A “suburban” was for taking the same passengers and gear out to the homes farther from the city, and it was a wagon mounted onto a van or truck frame. Chevrolet invented several family cars in one stroke by debuting the Suburban in 1936; it's rolled into the modern day as an extended, truck-based SUV.

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