Traveling salesmen purchased these to work their territories. I imagine more than one slept in the trunk on occasion .

Was a great place to keep a lot of merchandise out of sight. Some even had a very large roll out drawer from the factory.

Not a body style produced in high numbers. This particular posted example has probably the longest trunk area I remember seeing.

The travelers used to hit our business at a pretty fixed frequency. Then the very old commercial trend died out eventually. Travellers even updated our service parts inventory. Or took orders for it.

Chrysler products of this cars age and price had a comforatable ride compared to the other two of the big three. There were only a very small smattering of foreign cars on the road when this was new. Most of them where english cars.

Almost all service stations automatically checked your oil level and washed the windscreen when you brought gas. Maybe a fill up was four or five dollars. Oil was as low as .25 a quart. Frequency of changing it was much higher than today though. Very nostalgic actually. A car design and function of the past.