By the mid Fifties, Ford had long claimed the best-selling station wagons in the low-price field. The top of the extensive Ford wagon lineup was occupied by the Country Squire, notable for its high-line interior appointments and faux-wood exterior paneling that kept alive the good-life image of the handcrafted "woody" wagons of the Thirties and Forties.rnMeanwhile, Mercury wagons were second sisters. Though based on Ford body shells, Merc station wagons were more expensive and offered fewer choices. For 1957, though, Mercury would barrage the growing wagon market with an expanded armada led by a plush new flagship with woodgrained sides and an impressive-sounding name of its own: Colony Park, a label that would endure at Mercury for 35 years.
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