#1963 thunderbird convertible portable

That thought alone kept me from passing through their doors.Īs usual, I was wrong. Never daring to eat at House of Kabob back in the day, I used to suppose that the idea behind the Moby Dick restaurant was that they served whale kabobs. This place is likely familiar to many (most?) DC-area residents and/or apparently residents of Tehran in pre-revolution days…of which there were many, many, such folk in DC in the late 1970s. Which is quite unlike this other establishment that comes to (my) mind a restaurant which one would suppose to be all about leviathans of the white variety. This was from back in the flip-phone days, back before both the Moby Dick restaurant and my phone were upgraded. Neither would be a happy proposition, but as a pedestrian, I’ll take being tossed into the air by the skateboard versus winding up plastered like a bug on the bumper of the truck. I don’t imagine that this 1963 Cadillac is actually going to crash into man, beast, or fellow vehicle but if it were to, it would be sort of like the difference between getting hit by a fat guy on a skateboard versus being run down by a locomotive. Likewise, the Nissan weighs about 4700 pounds (depending on configuration). Something of course no one would wish upon this whale of a car or its driver. Maybe that’s just one of those the-grass-is-always-greener situations.įor what it’s worth, the Cadillac is also also probably kinder than the Nissan to pedestrians or other vehicles if it were to end up plowing into them. So says the guy who’s had much more experience playing with Tonka trucks than driving 1960s Cadillacs. Something more evocative of adult transportation and sensibilities than a real life Tonka truck. The end result is something in my opinion much more resplendent. That’s about a foot and a half lower than the truck. The Cadillac is 56.4″ high if stock, and this one looked to me to be riding at stock height. But this is where height makes all the difference. The Nissan is 17.5′ (a foot shorter than the Cadillac) and 74.7″ wide (only 5″ narrower than the Cadillac). I say “car” because actually, the Caddy is almost the same length and width as the Nissan Frontier truck it was parked next to in this picture. But at 18.5′ (223″) long and 79.7″ wide, it is considerably bigger – longer at least by around 2′ – than just about anything else passing as a car on today’s roads. The convertible top makes the car an inch taller than its coupe equivalent (although the data seems unclear as to whether this is true, or if they are actually the same height). While this 1963 Cadillac may not be the longest, widest or lowest American production car, it’s pretty close.

#1963 thunderbird convertible portable

For example, it’s only in person where you realize that the trunk lid is about the size of one of those portable dance floors that you might find at a wedding.įrom my up close perspective, it seemed to me that there would be room for the bride, groom, and at least several members of the wedding party to take up residence in the trunk whether or not they’re dancing. No, you need to be standing physically next to it. I contend that the magnificence of this vehicle can’t be adequately conveyed through photos. So huge, that armed only with my iPhone camera, I really had no good way to capture the whole car in the parking lot. It’s a whole other thing to encounter one in person. It’s one thing to read about the sheer size of one of these classic American land yachts.