Canopy express

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A Canopy express is a light-duty cargo van based on the chassis of Panel truck's. 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 Canpoy Express trucks were merley aftermarket conversions of their existing panel trucks.

As the United States became more suburbanized after World War 2, sales of canopy express vehicles declined. GM offered the last of them in 1955.

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