Studebaker Coupe Express

The Studebaker Coupe Express was a passenger car based coupe utility built by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, from 1937 to 1939. Designed by Raymond Loewy, it used the Dictator passenger car frame, running gear and front sheet metal, with a new body stamping for the back of the cab and the Dictator sweeping flared rear fenders. It was sold with a factory metal pickup bed or as a cab and chassis, to which a buyer such as a plumber or electrician could fit a service box. Power came from the larger of Studebaker L-head six-cylinder flathead engines with a three-speed manual transmission and an optional Borg-Warner overdrive. Production was about 3,000 for 1937, 1,200 for 1938 and 1,000 for 1939, and there was no successor for 1940. Whether it counts as a coupe utility or a pickup is a matter of definition, because it lacked both the integrated bed of a car-based coupe utility and the cab and chassis of a pickup truck.