In Popular Culture
- Several fans of the movie have created reproductions of the Family Truckster, and some may be seen at car shows and similar events.
- The only Truckster to survive filming is currently at the Historic Auto Attractions museum in Roscoe, Illinois.
- A maroon Ford Taurus Wagon with a similar faux-woodgrain panel scheme appears in Christmas Vacation.
- The car used in the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles, a 1986 Chrysler Town and Country convertible, carries a similar paint scheme — metallic pea with woodgrain trim — in reference to the Family Truckster. That movie was directed by John Hughes, who wrote the screenplay for National Lampoon's Vacation basing it on his own experiences growing up.
- On The Fairly OddParents, the Turner family owned a station wagon that is a classic looking version of the Wagon Queen Family Truckster.
- Vacation rental Web site HomeAway used a Truckster replica in a short film, Hotel Hell Vacation, and television advertisement during Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, 2010. Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo reprised their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold on a road trip to see their son Rusty.
- The introduction to the television show Married with Children uses a clip from National Lampoon's Vacation, showing the Truckster merging from the on-ramp into highway traffic.
- The Truckster used in Holiday Hell is currently on display in Austin Texas at the HomeAway headquarters at Penn Field.
- On SpongeBob SquarePants, A SquarePants Family Vacation and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2 the SquarePants family owned a station wagon that is the SquarePants Family Truckster.
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