en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_brake

Shooting brake (sometimes mis-identified as "shooting break") is a car body style which originated in the 1890s as a horse-drawn wagon used to transport shooting parties with their equipment and game.

The first automotive shooting brakes were manufactured in the early 1900s in the United Kingdom. The vehicle style became popular in England during the 1920s and 1930s. They were produced by vehicle manufacturers or as conversions by coachbuilders. The term was used in Britain interchangeably with estate car from the 1930s but has not been in general use for many years and has been more or less superseded by the latter term.

The term has evolved to describe cars combining elements of both station wagon (estate) and coupé body styles, with or without reference to the historical usage for shooting parties. The main difference between station wagons and shooting brakes is the number of side doors for passenger egress: with four for the more practical wagons and two on the typically more luxurious coupe-like shooting brakes. Marketers mis- identify their models such as the four-door Mercedes-Benz CLA "because shooting brake sounds sexier than estate."

There is no universally agreed definition of a shooting brake; however the common themes are the coupé and station wagon body styles, and the historical usage of the vehicle for hunting trips. Descriptions of the body style and usage of the term include:

"A sleek wagon with two doors and sports-car panache, its image entangled with European aristocracy, fox hunts and baying hounds".
"A cross between an estate and a coupé".
"Essentially a two-door station wagon".
An interchangeable term for estate car (station wagon). In France, a station wagon is marketed as a break, once having been called a break de chasse, which translates as "hunting break".
A body style with "a very interesting profile. It makes use of the road space it covers a little better than a normal coupé, and also helps the rear person with headroom... The occasional use of the rear seat means you can do one of these cars, even if such a wagon lacks the everyday practicality of four doors."
A vehicle conceived "to take gentlemen on the hunt with their firearms and dogs... and "although [its] glory days came before World War II, and it has faded from the scene in recent decades, the body style is showing signs of a renaissance" (as of 2006). "The most famous shooting brakes had custom two-door bodies fitted to the chassis of pedigreed cars".

I did not realized that there were so many "shooting brake" editions of cars.

They didn't mention the Chevy Vega Kammback wagons or the Pontiac Sunbird wagons that followed the Vegas. I ordered a '79 Pontiac back in the day. It had the Buick 3.8L V6, and 5- speed manual. That was a pretty cool car, but It got totaled shortly after delivery by a guy who rear ended me while I was sitting at a stoplight downtown.

I was going to buy a 2015 Scion IQ from a Honda dealer in Denver about the beginning of the scamdemic, but the bastards sold it out from under me after I had wired them the money. It was the only low-mile. one-owner I could find.

I was going to strip the rear seats out and make it my daily driver/grocery getter. I always liked little two-door wagons. I had a Geo Storm hatchback/wagon back in the early 90s, I think. That was pretty neat.

I'd never heard the term shooting-break cars

The Chicago Outfit had a car that was used to do hits on people that crossed them. There were two rifles hidden in a compartment in the rear of the front bench seat. There was a switch on the dash that could be thrown by the driver to open the compartment.

But if you were a member of the mob and you double crossed them, it was set up with people they knew in the suburbs to use their basements for hits. If you were on your way down those basement stairs, you could kiss your ass goodbye. ;)

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Thanks for the vids, and g'night all.

Nonsense Mechanics Have To Deal With

When I worked at Illinois State Highways yard at Northbrook, one day one of the trucks was going toward the mechanics bay. The brakes went out on the truck. It hit the door and it came down around the mechanic when he was under the hood of another truck.

I saw him several years later when I was at the Arlington yard, but he didn't remember me.

There goes another nueron. :-/