Which end? Front or rear?
. You know US cars of that era had enuf room for throwing down a picnic blanket behind the front seats. No seatbelts for another 40 years and kids played touch football in those cars while their parents drove cross country. "I better not have to come back there!"
Risky business, NyBoy.
I know, first it's poo-pooing the bison. Now, it's the jaundiced eye on car doors. Will it stop before we have fitted you with a GPS microchip and your every activity is monitored for safety?
Imagine that you are standing inside and opening that reardoor at 55mph ... the air catches that door while you hold the door handle and Wham!
Much safer style and I only had to wait until I was about that young fellow's age, the BMW Isetta.
Steve
. The nearby street parking spaces near 6 other luxury condo buildings and shops have a 2 hour parking limit, and/or meters. The parking spaces without these time limiting ^&*() items is at least 6 blocks away and good luck finding a space within a mile's hike. ( Portland, Ore. latest vision of getting people out of cars and onto bicycles and/ or on pubic transportation which is a joke all by itself in reality). If Steve was to park The BMW Isetta with it's front door he would have difficulty stepping out without climbing onto the car right in front, that is IF he could sqeeze out of the front door with his new swelt 185 lb. body. 
