The purchase price for this car was $5,318.50. It is equipped with power windows, power seat, AC, Autopilot. It was built with left and right manual rear view mirrors although it does not have the right mirror now. This car is one of 10 turquoise E coupes built with Autopilot. According to the microfilm, it was not built with the headlight dimmer or radio. This car is pictured in John Gunnell's book from 1982, Chrysler 300 1955-1961 and in those pictures you can see the dimmer and radio so it is likely they were added by Harry Ewert.

1959 saw the production of 550 coupes. There were 283 in ivory white, 79 in formal black. 42 in cameo tan, 38 in radiant red, 35 in copper spice, 33 in turquoise gray. 9 in sandstone, 3 in Normandy blue, 3 in Spanish silver. 2 in storm gray, 2 in Empress blue, 1 in WUW (tan-sandstone-tan?), 1 in deep ruby, 1 in Silverpine and 9 with special order paint code 999. There were 138 coupes with AC and 25 with dual AC. There were 35 with the gasoline Instant Heater and 4 cars were heater delete. 242 had Suregrip. 421 had power windows. 223 had power antennas. 3 cars had dual rear antennas although that option is not supposed to be available on the 300. 378 cars had power seats. 110 coupes and 27 convertibles still exist.

Counting coupes and convertibles, 150 Es were built the automatic beam changer. 204 with Auto Pilot. 481 with manual left fender mirror. 169 with remote left fender mirror. 65 with right fender mirror. 131 with Mirrormatic. 300 had the Music Master radio. 311 had the Electro touch tune radio. 67 had no radio. 441 had tinted glass Solex. To me, the most interesting option was the True-Level Torsion Aire. 1959 was the only year it was offered and only 26 Es had it. It consisted of a 200 PSI compressor driven off the engine. It ran air bags on the rear springs. You can read more about it here. I've never seen an E with it. My guess is this option was in response to air suspensions being offered by Ford and GM. None of these systems worked well.

Here is the data tag.
In 1959 it is located on the splash panel in front of the radiator.

Included with the car was this 1959 Chrysler Handbook

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