The Wagonqueen Family Truckster was a station wagon created specifically for the comedy National Lampoon's Vacation. It was nothing more than a Ford Crown Victoria LTD station wagon with a modified front end and a "metallic pea" paint job, based on the Dodge Aspen/Plymouth Volare line, which, due to rushed production, suffered much wear in a relativly short period of time.

"Vacation"'s producers and actors came up with the idea of producing an absolutley ridiculous and disgusting station wagon. The Truckster was the end result hand had all of the following:

"Metallic Pea" color. Overdone wood paneling. Eight headlights, four on each side in a rectangular cluster. The grille area is largely covered by bodywork, with two small openings about midway down, and the a small grille at the bottom. Large chrome hubcaps with a large "Wagonqueen" logo in the middle. An oddly-placed gas tank access door. Dull, brown cotton interior. A rahter poor-biult engine(evidence is given when Clark drives the car into his driveway and the engine knocks while it is running). An airbag made out of a trashbag.

Clark and his son Rusty go down to Lou Glutz Motors at the movie's beginning and trade in their old station wagon, an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, for an unnamed Antarctic Blue Sports Wagon, with a C.B. radio and "The Rally Fun-Pack". Ed, the salesman who Clark talks to dring this scene (played by Eugene Levy) attempts to fool Clark into buying it by telling him the car he really wants hasn't come in yet. When Clark asks for his car back, he gets his wagon back...the only problem is, is that it's crushed. We don't see anymore of the dealer again, but we can assume Clark bought the car out of despertion, and as he tells his wife, a great deal.

As if having a rather poor car wasn't bad enough, the car only takes more abuse: In St. Louis, the hubcaps are stolen and "Honky Lips" in spray-painted on the side. Clark then falls asleep at the wheel and nearly wrecks the car, only to, by luck spin out and stop in a motel parking lot. At the first stop for gas, Clark accidentaly rips of the rear lisence plate. In Colorado, he accidentally drags his crotchety old Aunt Edna's poorly trained dog, Dinky, to death. In Arizona, Clark gets lost en route to the Grand Canyon, and is too busy arguing with Ellen ("Jesus, it's only the biggest goddamn hole in the world") to realize the road is closed. He then drives the car of the road's end and almost destroys it, blowing all the tires and practically obliterating the front end. He is able to get a tow,but instead of getting the car driveable again, he gets four bald tires and is robbed of all his money by the garage manager, who just happens to be the county sherriff. We are left to wonder how this rolling death trap manages to make it to "Walley World" in Los Angeles.

It is safe to say, though, that the Griswolds left the car to a scrap dealer, because at the end of the end credit photo montage, we see Clark, Ellen, Rusty, and Audrey on what can be easily noticed as a plane interior.