Do families still go on a National Lampoon vacation? Once, it was a rite of passage. Once, for every middle-class kid, there would come an inevitable summer — the summer they Saw America. Mom and dad ...

Tom Dittus drives his Ford Country Squire, aka Family Truckster, in Lake George. A couple reacts when they see the “Family Truckster” in Lake George. A fitting vanity plate on a “Family Truckster” at ...