This was Chris' "going away to College" trunk from 1974. We used it as a coffee table base for many years, but it had been relegated to the shed for the last decade or so.
I've given it a few coats of varnish to stabilize and preserve the historic rust. You can see a couple of the stubby sofa feet that I attached to the bottom corners. These keep it off the ground so we can use it as a table while camping. The two back feet also slot into the mesh panel so that the trunk always sits in the same place while in traveling mode.