Sedan delivery
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A Sedan delivery (commonly called a delivery) is a windowless cargo van built on a car chassis, based on the station wagon. There were several variants: the sedan delivery with two or four doors, and the panel delivery (a commercial vehicle), with two rear doors instead of one.
With the growing sales of the Volkswagen Microvan at the era they faded from the scene. Chevrolet dropped it in 1960 while Ford moved it to the Ford Falcon line-up until 1965. However they attempted a comeback with sedan delivery versions of the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto wagons in the 1970's. Chrysler had shown a concept-car edition of a sedan delivery based on the PT Cruiser at the NAIAS in 2002 but it didn't receive the green light for production.
Ironically while in the decline in America, the sedan-delivery concept had inspired Holden and Ford in Australia to do their own sedan deliveries, which evolved into the Panel van.
Today, sedan deliveries have some fans, restorers and customizers. Some even customize various station-wagons into deliveries.
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