Steve GriswoldCo-Owner of Pixie Vacations, a full-service travel agency — Sandals, Beaches, Disney & cruise specialist

Exploring the Cool Features of the Family Truckster

5 Feb 2025 · 3 min

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This content was created by Steve Griswold. This content was uploaded by Steve Griswold. This is a YouTube video titled "Exploring the Cool Features of the Family Truckster" (uploaded 2025-02-05T12:04:38Z). The excerpt is a single-presenter vehicle walkthrough/demonstration (one speaker) describing interior features of a Family Truckster/Country Squire: wayback seats and folding configurations, tailgate/window operation, DVD player for road trips, driver's-seat details (speed, gauges, added gas gauge, upgraded sound system), air conditioning, period accessories (Kleenex box, air freshener), controls (headlights, wipers, horn, directional signal) and 3-point front seat belts. The content reads like an informal car tour or review rather than a multi-person conversation.

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One of the coolest things about the Family Truckster is the wayback seats. So this folds down, the tailgate folds down, or it opens to the side depending on which lever you use and how it's set up. So we've got the wayback seats in here. This also goes down, this mirror, or this, this window actually goes down as well. These fold down to make this a whole flat area, or you can have the kids sit in here and one kind of faces one way and one faces the other way. And they've got a DVD player up here as well that we added after— afterwards for road trips. All right, so let me take you to the driver's seat. Alright, so in the driver's seat of the Country Squire, goes up to a whopping 85 miles per hour. This gas gauge, original gas gauge, stopped working, so we added another gas gauge. So we added another gas gauge over here. Added a different sound system because of long drives, and also it If you have someone sitting in the front and they want to watch a movie, they can watch it on here. You know, air conditioning. I always remember everybody has this Kleenex box and this air freshener from the '70s and '80s, so that's in here as well. It's got the original interior. You have The headlights are here. You have your windshield wipers, wipers and everything over here. You actually have the horn, uh, right here. So the horn is right here. You press the, uh, directional signal in for the horn. So we have the 3-part, or the 3-point seat belt in the front. So we're buckled in, 3-point, 3-point seat belts in the front.