Real-Life Griswolds Drive Family Truckster to Disney World

In the summer of 1983, the cinematic world welcomed Clark Griswold, played by Chevy Chase, who took his family on an adventurous cross-country trip from Chicago to the fictional LA amusement park "Walley World", billed as "America's Favorite Family Fun Park", in their notorious Wagon Queen Family Truckster. That was the classic comedy film and box office hit, "National Lampoon's Vacation".

In the summer of 2013, on the 30th anniversary of the motion picture, the real-life Griswold family packed their belongings in a Wagon Queen Family Truckster replica and headed for an amusement park – not Walley World, but Disney World in Florida.

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