Panel van

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.

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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.

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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.

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