#42B Studebaker Lark Wagonaire

I seem to remember this sliding-roofed Matchbox station wagon coming with a white plastic hunter and his dog. When I was a paperboy a customer had one of these wagons. He was a Toro salesman, and traded his 1961 Ford Falcon Ranchero for the Wagonaire. I always thought these cars were a great idea, but I must have been wrong as they never really caught on. The Matchbox Wagonaire was first issued in 1965, replacing the Bedford Evening News Van, and came in various shades of green/turquoise (none of which match the real car in the photos below, which is an actual car used on the old Mr. Ed tv series). — jc