Canopy express
A Canopy express is a light-duty cargo van based on the chassis of a panel truck. Canopy express vehicles have open display areas behind the driver's seat commonly used for peddling vegetables and fruit, but also used for other kinds of deliveries that require easy access, such as newspapers and radio equipment.
Canopy express trucks evolved as a more stylized version of standard pickup trucks that contained open canopies installed over the pickup bed. They were built by Dodge, General Motors, and International Harvester as well as other manufacturers. Ford Canopy Express trucks were merely aftermarket conversions of their existing panel trucks.
As the United States became more suburbanized after World War 2, sales of canopy express vehicles declined. Dodge ceased production of these trucks in 1948, while GM offered the last of them in 1955. Like panel trucks, canopy express trucks continued as aftermarket conversions.
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1923 Dodge Brothers screenside pickup, one of numerous predecessors to Canopy Express trucks. -
Toyota pickup used as a canopy express truck -
1923 Ford Model T Canopy Express at Greenfield Village in Michigan. -
1940 Dodge Canopy express at an antique truck show.
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See also
External links
- 1937 Chevrolet Trux page!
- Chevrolet 3107, 3807, and 4107 (Brad's 1941-46 Chevy Trucks)
- The Plight of the Canopy Express (The Stovebolt Page)
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