Here's a style of car that died out a while ago, largely replaced by small vans. The "sedan delivery" style was a two-door wagon with no side windows into the cargo area. They were more maneuverable on crowded city streets than truck-based delivery vans, and generally cheaper and more fuel efficient.
This one's a '55 Chevy that's obviously been hot-rodded. The chrome trim on the rockers is pure Bel Air, but the vast majority of sedan deliveries were done on the spartan Chevrolet 150. Things like "passenger side sun visor", "passenger seat", "heater", and "oil filter" were fripperies that cost extra money.
Base price for a '55 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery was $1,699 in those pre-inflation dollars, or about twenty grand in current money.
Those expanses of sheet metal enclosing the cargo area made a handy place to paint the company name, in this case "Paul's Garage & Speed Shop" which, alas, does not appear to have a web presence under that name that I can find.
This one was photographed in May of 2024 using a Canon EOS-1D Mark IV and an EF 24-105mm f/4L IS.
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