Mac’s Motor City Garage presents another big photo essay featuring the fascinating half-car, half-truck vehicles known as sedan deliveries.

 

It appears we struck a nerve. Our first feature story on sedan deliveries proved to be very popular—which is great for us, because we really enjoy them, too. Here’s another collection of attractive and/or unusual deliveries.

 

The Chevrolet entry in the sedan delivery field for 1936 featured a 109-inch wheelbase (sharing its chassis with the Standard model passenger car) and all-steel, turret-top construction. Note the single, side-hinged cargo door.

 

The 1960 model year would be the last for Ford’s full-size Courier, as the Dearborn automaker transferred its sedan delivery model to the new Falcon compact platform. The Courier nameplate eventually would be applied to a series of Mazda-built small pickups sold by Ford dealers in the USA through the 1970s.

 

This 1958 Studebaker Panel-wagon sports the same plain-Jane painted hubcaps as the popular Studebaker Scotsman passenger car line. The base engine was a venerable 185.6 CID L-head six boasting all of 101 hp.

 

Here are a pair of 1961 Ford Falcon deliveries, but with a twist: these are XK Falcons built and sold in Australia. Note the right-hand drive, tubular rear bumpers, and reconfigured rear valence panel to accommodate Australian license plates. The Falcon brand proved to be much more resilient Down Under than here in the States—Falcons are still sold there today.

 

The artist took some liberties with the proportions of this somewhat idealized 1950 Pontiac Sedan Delivery, which bears the signage of the apocryphal Town & Country Shops. Sure looks great, though.

 

With its stepped cargo body, This 1933 Rockne probably can’t be considered a true sedan delivery despite its passenger car architecture, but it was interesting enough to include anyway. Studebaker’s low-priced Rockne subsidiary, named after Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne, lasted only two years, 1932-1933. Studebaker and the University of Notre Dame are South Bend, Indiana’s two chief claims to fame.

 

The Chevrolet Vega (1971-1977) certainly proved to be a dud—some pundits have labeled it “GM’s Edsel.” Still, the ’72 Vega Panel Express shown here is not without its charms. Essentially a Vega station wagon with blanked-out rear quarter windows and minus its folding rear seat, the Panel Express claimed a cargo capacity of 650 lbs.

 

This stylish delivery, which features cowl lamps and a fender-mounted spare, is a 1937 Hudson Terraplane. (Note also the elegant coach lamps affixed to the B-pillars.) Long gone now, the massive Hudson main assembly plant was at Jefferson and Conner in Detroit, across the street from Chrysler’s current-day Jefferson Avenue facility.

 

Ladies go for sedan deliveries. Chevrolet was one of the leading players in the delivery market year in and year out. Officially known as the 150 Three-Door Sedan Delivery for 1954, the model reportedly sold 8,255 units that season.

 

This 1929 Ford Model A Sedan Delivery, owned by Ron Barnum and called the Renaissance Delivery, won the prestigious Ridler Award at the 1983 Detroit Autorama. A product of its time, the custom street rod features a medium chop in the roof and de-chromed, monochromatic exterior.

 

Four 1960 Studebaker Sedan Deliveries are lined up in front of a local South Bend shopping center for a publicity shot. Though it probably wasn’t reflected in great sales success, Studebaker was a perennial entrant in the delivery market. By the way, the green delivery with club coupe body lines in the lead illustration is also a Studebaker—1940 Champion.