In 1966, Imperial, a brand owned by Chrysler, built a show car with an executive office inside. The front passenger seat swiveled to face backward, and a fold-out table created a mobile conference room. It had a telephone and a “datafax transmitter” (a fax machine) that could transmit a page in six minutes. It was the ultimate “Mad Men” automobile. (Don Draper actually drove a 1964 Imperial on the show.)
This concept car got so much attention, Imperial produced some for customers, minus the phone and fax, called the Imperial Crown Coupe Mobile Director. Imperial advertisements noted, ‘Now you may work your way to work.’ While it was one of the more expensive American cars of its era, it wasn’t very popular, and very few were ever built. Today, probably a handful or two still exist.
