Suitcase party in the coffee room
09/21/2023
Anyone who owns a large limousine and has ever opened the trunk at a meeting will be familiar with the comments: "You could fit a few corpses in there" or "Those are mafia dimensions". What the original joker doesn't know is that you can transport not only gangsters who have been shot to death, but also extremely lively young ladies in the luggage compartment. At least that's what the car advertisements of the fifties seemed to want to make clear to us.
In Renault brochures in particular, summery, elegantly dressed mannequins sometimes seriously, sometimes cheerfully demonstrated the space available in the aft deck of estate cars and saloons. Although somewhat unrealistic, the beautifully composed color photographs are undoubtedly nice to look at. However, nothing surpasses the surreal matter-of-factness with which the lady in the Frégate luggage compartment consumes hot drinks containing caffeine - including saucer, jug and sugar bowl.
Incidentally, it didn't matter where the trunk was located in the car, as an English advertising photo for the NSU Prinz 4 shows . However, here, with the hood raised directly in front of the windshield, it is no longer even suitable as a mother-in-law's seat.
