What is a Tony Hillerman "Carryall?" A Jeep, a Pickup, or a Van?

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I have never heard the term here in Los Angeles. He constantly has Lt. Leaphorn driving a "carryall." Hillerman is from Oklahoma. What does "carryall," translate to in normal American English?
 
I hadn't noticed until you pointed it out. A "Carryall" is broadly defined a "vehicle in which two seats face each other" and I find a golf cart like vehicle called that for sale. More searching revealed a bit of an autobiography in which the writer says he and his brother bought a carry-all and he defines it as "and a bright yellow, van-like "carry-all" (bought for fifty dollars at Army Suplus in Phoenix).."

fac-staff.seattleu.edu/.../postcolonialautobiography.pdf

So I assume it's a sort of van rather than a truck.
 
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