A couple days ago, I listened to the two-albums-on-one-CD re-issue of
Little Deuce Coupe and
All Summer Long, and later I realized that there's a somewhat significant contrast in "Little Deuce Coupe," specifically in the line "But she'll walk a Thunderbird like it's standin' still." The narrator's affection towards his car is such that he's anthropomorphized it to some degree, using a feminine pronoun to refer to it throughout the song ("
She's my little deuce coupe," "
She'll do a hundred and forty...," "
She's got a competition clutch...," and so on), but a competitor's Thunderbird is still just an object and is referred to with the neuter "it."