A Fictional Lampoon of American Auto Design Becomes a Realit

There are plenty of iconic film cars, from the

Back to the Future

Delorean to

Christine's

'58 Fury to James Bond's ever-evolving collection of Aston-Martins. But the only one that made an active commentary on the (then-dismal) state of automotive design was the Wagon Queen Family Truckster from National Lampoon's 1983 

Vacation

.

有很多标志性的电影汽车，从

回到未来

Delorean到

克莉丝汀的

'58愤怒到詹姆斯邦德不断发展的阿斯顿马丁系列。但唯一一个对汽车设计（当时令人沮丧的）状态做出积极评论的是《国家讽刺》1983

年假期

中的旅行车女王家庭卡车。

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The car was written into the script as a simple gag: Family patriarch Clark Griswold is bait-and-switched by an unscrupulous car salesman, shafted out of getting the "Antarctic Blue Super Sports Wagon with the Rally Fun Pack" he'd wanted. The alternative had to look unappealing, and the Warner Brothers prop department responsible for creating the car didn't have to stretch their imaginations to summon up the very worst American automotive styling available in the late '70s and early '80s.

这辆车被写进了剧本，作为一个简单的插科打诨：家庭族长克拉克格里斯沃尔德是诱饵和开关由一个肆无忌惮的汽车推销员，轴出得到“南极蓝色超级运动旅行车与拉力赛乐趣包”，他想要的。另一种选择必须看起来没有吸引力，华纳兄弟道具部门负责创造汽车没有伸展他们的想象力，以召集最糟糕的美国汽车造型在70年代末和80年代初。

Thus the color of the Wagon Queen Family Truckster was "Metallic Pea." The fake wood paneling extended to the hood. It had eight headlights, each side ringed by an obnoxious eight turn signals. In a nod to poor ergonomics, the fuel inlet was located in the hood—on the passenger side. There were faux intake vents located above the rear wheel wells, as if it were a Countach, and a gaudy metallic logo on the cartoonishly-large C-pillar. The beltline ends abruptly at said C-pillar and with a second, higher beltline materializing to connect to the D-pillar. You might not have thought it was possible to make a 1979 Ford LTD Country Squire station wagon more ugly than it already was, but Warner Brothers pulled it off.

因此，货车皇后家庭卡车的颜色是“金属豌豆。“假木镶板一直延伸到引擎盖。它有八个前灯，每一边都有一个讨厌的八个转向灯。为了迎合糟糕的人体工程学，燃油入口位于引擎盖上乘客一侧。有人造进气口位于后轮上方的威尔斯井，如果它是一个Countach，和一个俗气的金属标志的卡通大C柱。腰线突然终止于所述C柱处，并且第二更高的腰线实现以连接到D柱。你可能没有想到有可能使1979年的福特有限公司乡村乡绅旅行车比它已经丑陋，但华纳兄弟成功了。

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What's strange is that the fictional Wagon Queen Family Truckster spawned a cult following. It's got its own

Facebook page

, there are artist-created

die-cast models

and

Lego

versions of it. But even stranger is that a real-life Griswold family—Steve & Lisa Griswold of Georgia and their brood—decided to build a driveable replica to use for real-life family vacations.

奇怪的是，虚构的货车皇后家庭卡车催生了一个邪教以下。它有自己的

Facebook页面

，有艺术家制作

的压铸模型

和

乐高

版本。但更奇怪的是，现实生活中的格里斯沃尔德一家--来自格鲁吉亚的史蒂夫·丽莎格里斯沃尔德和他们的孩子--决定建造一个可驾驶的复制品，用于现实生活中的家庭度假。

"We are the Griswolds, and, yes, we are heading on vacation," writes Steve. "I have been hearing jokes all my life but love the National Lampoon Vacation movies. So we decided to create our own Griswold Truckster so we can take the kids on some awesome road trips." The Griswolds started with an only slightly-more-modern LTD Country Squire—this one an '84—and turned it into this beast:

“我们是格里斯沃尔德一家，是的，我们要去度假，”史蒂夫写道。“我一生都在听笑话，但我喜欢国家讽刺假期电影。所以我们决定创造我们自己的格里斯沃尔德卡车司机，这样我们就可以带孩子们进行一些很棒的公路旅行。“格里斯沃尔德一家从一辆稍微现代一点的LTD Country Squire-this one an '84-开始，把它变成了这辆野兽：

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These real-life Griswolds have documented the intensive process of transforming the car

here

.

这些真实的Griswolds记录了

在这里

改造汽车的密集过程。