Man gets bored, builds Family Truckster

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  1. wagonmaster

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    Click above for gallery of the remade Family Truckster

    People have remade the iconic Family Truckster wagon from the movie National Lampoon's Vacation before, but we don't think many have done so well as forum poster ls1nova71 over at ls1tech.com. He's faithfully recreated the metallic pea (everything except for turning the white wall tires into green walls) from a Ford LTD Country Squire wagon and dropped in a stock 5.3L small-block GM V8 to keep it road worthy. As we caught up to the forum thread, ls1nova71 had loaded up the Truckster and made it to a stop on the Hot Rod Power Tour, where he did us all proud and ran the Griswold's wagon down the quarter mile at 14.9 seconds at 94 mph. Clark would've no doubt been ecstatic if his version could do that in the movie. Perhaps then he could've kept up with Christie Brinkley's Ferrari.

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    [Source: ls1tech.com]
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    Thanks for that, Krash and Stefan. Encourages the art and hobby.:D
     
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    That Hartford Guy Mopar no more.

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    WOW! That came out excellent!
     
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    Wow, I'm still in shock at the attention this car has had! It just keeps popping up everywhere. But it's only around car people, if you drive it to, say, WalMart, or somewhere, most people don't get it. To alot of people it's just another car. I have even had people look at it and say ''that's different'' and when I say ''if you have never seen the movie, you wouldn't get it'', to which they reply ''what movie?''. I'll say National Lampoon's Vacation, and they will say "isn't that the movie where they jumped the car in the desert, and the old lady died (usually grandma) and they tied her to the roof" But for some reason the car dosen't even ring a bell to them! I think some people didn't get some of the humor in the movie.
     
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    coolio!!:thumbs2:
     
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    That is an impressive job, I love movie cars AND wagons, man what a treat, thanx for building it and especially thanks for sharing it with the 'wagon family board' :1st:
     
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