1977 was one of the years of Peak Wagon in the United States, a year in which car shoppers here could choose among 47 different models of station wagon (the wagon count for 1964 was 47 as well). The choices were slightly diminished in 1978, but we were still in the Golden Age of Japanese
Small Japanese pickups sold very well in the United States during the 1970s and well into the 1980s, with the Ford (Mazda) Courier, Chevy (Isuzu) LUV, Toyota Hilux, and Dodge (Mitsubishi) D-50 becoming commonplace sights on American roads during that period. Nissan was right there in the sales battle with the Datsun 620 and 720,
I often claim to have a wealth of automotive knowledge considering I was playing with matchbox cars before I could walk and have had an amazing journey deep in the automotive industry well before starting Automotive Addicts in 2004. However, I am sometimes in amazement by the nearly endless amount of automotive history that I
