Toppers or Canopies or Camper Shells?

[toyotafan]

Depending on what part of the country you live in (or what country you live in). The term for the hard-cover shell that goes over your truck bed can change.

If you live in the Northwest or in California. The term is typically "Canopy". If you live in the north or the northeast, it's usually "Topper". And if you live in the mid-west to the south the term is quite often "Camper Shell".

Has anyone else noticed this? Has the internet changed things at all? Is there just one term now for them or do people still use the local term?

[Musher_Vic]

Here in New York they are simply called "caps"....

[toyotafan]

Well, that's a 4th term I guess. :-)

[Musher_Vic]

Yeah it kind of like sandwiches -- depending on your location, they can be referred to as heros, wedges, grinders, hoagies etc. I asked for a meatball wedge in Colorado and they looked at me like I was crazy. (Most mushers are a little crazy but they did not understand the term.)

[toyotafan]

:-) I grew up in the Northwest, but live in Texas now. My wife's from East Texas, where they talk a bit different. I understand how different things can be. Like asking for a coke. "What type of coke do you want?" -- give me a pepsi.

[vortex_insidio]

Every locale and generation creates its own name for things.

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[kolson88]

I live in WA and the common term I hear useed is a cap. It's not just an east coast term, and personally I think it's the best one.

[tundah08]

normal people call them caps and i live in the east

[GearHead]

They are most definitely known as camper shells here in California. Didn't know they were called anything else. Kind of bizarre that there is a variation in the terminology based on geographical region. Wonder why this is?