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A panel van (or panelvan) is a form of van, usually one based on a family car chassis. They were especially popular with younger car buyers in Australia during the 1970s. Ford Falcon XF 1990 model, Australian panelvan File links The following pages link to this file: Pickup truck Ford Falcon Categories: Free use images ...
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Australian panelvans
In Australia, panelvans, also known simply as "PVs", were a development of the Australian ute (a variety of pickup also based on a car chassis). By the late 1980s, they began to slowly disappear from Australian roads as major manufacturers slowly ceased building them. Mazda compact Pickup truck with extended cabin and homebuilt lumber rack. ...
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Most utes usually had an option of metal, then later rigid plastic, shells that would fit over the back of the tray of the ute, thereby extending the vertical space drivers could store in the tray, usually to just above the existing roofline of the passenger cab. Later shells offered plastic windows for ventilation along the sides and even pop-out or swing-out windows at the rear to aid the driver's rear vision. These were eventually integrated into the body of the ute itself to form a hybrid vehicle that, while based on a ute body, offered more rear space than a conventional station wagon with its rear seats folded down. These became known to the Australian public essentially as panelvans.
Initial models were fitted at the rear with swing-down and -up doors (like utes), but later models came equipped with "barn-door" configurations that opened out to the sides of the vehicle, rather than down, aiding the loading of bulky freight into the vehicle without (as badly) damaging the body. Passnegers could climb from the interior passenger cab into the cargo bay behind them easily. Later the installation of safety cages which segregated passengers from the cargo area became popular to prevent freight from the back sliding into the passenger cab (and potentially injuring the driver).
The first panelvans were manufactured by Holden and Ford in the late 1950s, but didn't become popular until the mid-1960s. By the early 1970s, usually when based on the Holden Kingswood and Ford Falcon model of the time, panelvans had become Australian cultural icons. The Holden Sandman is probably the best-remembered of these: for example, one of the vehicles driven by Mel Gibson in the 1979 movie Mad Max was a Sandman (apparently a 1975 "HJ" model in this case). Ford panelvans (known briefly as Sundowners) were also popular, to a lesser degree. Chrysler also came to the party in 1976, offering a CL-model Valiant panelvan dubbed the Chrysler Drifter, but these could not compete with the popularity of Ford and particularly Holden, and were axed in 1978. Holden Australia is an Australian car manufacturer, originally independent but now a subsidiary of General Motors. ...
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Younger drivers were especially attracted to panelvans, for reasons such as the ease with which a mattress could be installed within the cargo bay. Consequently, panelvans also attracted intriguing nicknames such as "sin bins", "shaggin' wagons", and "fuck-trucks". During the 1970s it also became fashionable to decorate the exterior sides with murals painted with intricate detail.
Australian police forces also purchased fleets of panelvans to use in a black maria, or paddy wagon, role. In Melbourne, panelvans were known in police terminology as divisional vans, giving rise to the localised slang term divvy van (and the drinking chant, "we're going home in the back of a divvy van!"). A paddy wagon is a vehicle used by police to transport large groups of people who have been arrested. ...
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Painters, electricians, and general labourers also found panelvans ideal for their trades, as the cargo bay offering extended capacity otherwise wasted in passenger space, and a highly customisable interior, without the bulk or extended dimensions of other longer-base vans.
The popularity of panelvans has waned however the last 20 years: Holden's last release was their "WB" model, in 1983. Subsequently, Ford became the sole manufacturer of them until 1997, when the "XH" model was released; this was to prove the last entry in the history of the Australian panelvan. In 2003, Holden released a new Sandman, based on their "VU" model Holden Commodore of the time. These Sandmans were a limited edition release, and while they were identified (and marketed) as panelvans, they still retained the rear window and firewall of the ute they were ultimately based on, preventing movement between the cargo bay and the passenger cab, as offered by traditional panelvans. Jump to: navigation, search 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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A Sedan Delivery windowless cargo van built on a car chassis, mainly based on the station-wagon offered mainly in the USA and Canada until the late 1950s. ...
External link - Examples of hot-rodded Holden panelvans
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