The answer is simple, if you are game enough to do it. Shortly after purchasing my car in early 2002, my sister and I drove from Georgia to New York for a twelve day vacation. You can imagine two women and the luggage we might want to carry for a twelve day trip! We tried everything under the sun, trying to get our luggage in my car. ...no way was that ever going to happen! I finally decided that the luggage took up more space than our clothes. Ahhhhh..the solution! I went in the house and got two duffle bags, one for each of us, to be used for toiletries and any other vital necessity needed in a hotel room over night. We took all of our clothes out of the suitcases and packed the trunk very neatly as if it was the suitcase! So each night before we checked into the hotel, we just opened the trunk, took out the clothes needed for the next day and grabbed our duffle bags and amazingly it worked out very nicely. If you pack very carefully and fold everything very neatly, you would not believe how well this works. Anything that cannot be folded just lay over the top of the folded clothes. The duffle bags slid right into the rear square box area in the very back of the trunk. If you decide to leave your spare at home, you can use that space to put your dirty clothes in!
The next problem was the cooler.......oh,what to do with that??? The trunk was full! Solution..a very small cooler fits very nicely on the center rear deck between the driver and passenger seats. Refill it, as needed , when you make your scheduled stops.
By the way, and a little off the subject. There is a nice little stretch of highway in New Jersey that is so tempting for a little T-Bird to strut it's stuff!! Had the speedometer over 140 miles per hour and it was wonderful! The car handled so nice and smooth, I absolutely was just amazed at how well the car performed. It just felt so comfortable at that speed.....just smooth sailing!
Enjoy your trip...anything is possible in these wonderful little T-Birds!
😉 J F Butler
