Hi, LuvMBDiesels,

I'm not dead set on 1933. The time just before Roosevelt was inaugurated and Prohibition ended seemed like a good period. Maybe I could set it later. But as Carleton has pointed out, the luxury car market, small though it was then, allowed you to customize your car to your needs, and a Packard coupe of that time could have had a big trunk integrated into the body.

That Police Special revolver -- wasn't it one of those that they used to fire to illustrate "faster than a speeding bullet" in the George Reeves "Superman" TV series?

It would make much more sense for a cop, even in those less frantic times, to go armed. In Britain, I understand, the bobbies weren't armed, but our cops had to deal with a much wilder criminal element than they did.
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