Faced with a six-week wait for his dream car, a family road trip to Walley World set for the next morning, and his trade-in wagon crushed, “Sparky” Griswold was in a predicament.

Another classic road trip comedy is “National Lampoon’s Vacation” (1983), which follows the Griswold family as they embark on ...

the 1983 comedy followed the misadventures of the Griswold family on their road trip from Chicago to the fictional Wally World amusement park in California. Near the early-middle stages of the ...