Can I still park curbside?

Out for dinner in Dayton, OH during the POCI Co-Vention. First parallel park job in years. Luckily, nice, long spaces for the Longroof.

 

Love that wagon! Regarding the parallel parking, well, the Dos Equis guy (the most interesting man in the world) once parallel parked a train.

His two cents are also worth 37 dollars and change.
His shadow frequently appears on multiple best dressed lists.
When he holds a woman's purse, he looks intimidating.
He can play Chopin on the drums.
His tailgate parties have caused game delays.
Eskimos have seven different words to describe his beard.
Even his nod sounds like a plan

 

Your picture illustrates something. Everyone considers old station wagons to be big cluncky old boats. Compare yours to the other vehicles in the picture. They dwarf your car. I noticed this recently when I drove to Home Depot to pick up some lumber. When I came out, I had a hard time seeing my Pontiac. It was like an MG parked amongst a herd of Cadillacs.

 

I took the parallel parking part of my driver's test in my mom's '65 Plymouth Fury III wagon and passed with flying colors. You can see the poles they used to mark out the space a lot better in the rear through all that glass.
I failed it the first time I took it in my grandfather's '62 T-Bird.

 

I was kinda thinking the same thing. But also how much prettier your car looks.

 

Yep, what the others have said.

 

They do look taller, I'll say that, but the only vehicles that are longer in length are full size SUVs and pickups, which everyone seems to be driving these days. So comparing vehicles from the same time period, the 212" wagon might be defined as that.

I will say that with all the glass, there are NO blind spots

 

My '91 Merc looks damn near tiny compared to some of the vehicles at work that are supposedly "mid-sized" cars. Never mind the fun at the big box stores, where I can get a few folks watching as I load sheets of plywood, 2x4s and other stuff into the back of the wagon.

I had a 400-lb Dana 44 front disc brake axle assembly in the back once. That was fun to load and unload, I tell ya! A cherry picker works wonders.

 

those people

Once had co-workers tell me they thought my 77 Dodge Aspenwagon was "HUUUUGE!!!". I sat there thinking, "It's not even a big Dodge. And Fords and GM's got even bigger. A 76 Sedan DeVille, THAT'S HUUUUUGE." When I walked out to my car at the end of the shift, I was struck by how small and humble my Aspenwagon looked. It wasn't huge at all...