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Ute ought to want one...

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We have two,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
They have been shown a number of time here.
A gentleman imported a number of them a couple of years ago and found out that Yanks like Ute's but don't really buy them.

 

I think utes were the biggest MISS in the auto industry for the USA. They have style and utility. They made a weak attempt in the 50's and 60's but missed out on the class of the 30's and 40's.

 

Oh how i want one. But then i do have 2 el Caminos

 

Ah, yes, the car/pickup. Bisexual of the auto world. Goes both ways. Neat vehicles.

 

Another great Ozzie invention like the all enclosed coupe (Sloper)

 

Utes are a birth right in Australia.
A friends old 50’s chev.

My old 46 ford.

An Aussie Mainline ( Ute version of a customline) I took a photo of for sale at a swap meet.

The 46.

 

@Pist-n-Broke you don't have one of these...yet

 

L.o.L.. No but I considered bobbing the upper half of the Quarters of the old panel truck off. Then graphing the back panel off a standard Truck into it following the body reveal with the angle of the back panel.

 

State Library of South Australia. B 13072 Photo taken in Byron Place, Adelaide.

 

I just want to say thanks to all for posting. Great stuff!

 

'62 GM Holden ute, lined up in the staging lanes at Sydney Dragway Kinda like a 3/4 scale 57 Chev. 138 cubes of pure terror.

 

This is a pun. They were very Utesful vehicles.

 

Ford and Chevrolet or Dodge (?) utes photographed in Adelaide 1954. State Library of South Australia owns the copyright. Roadster ute. (I can't identify it.) photographed in Adelaide 1954. State Library of South Australia owns the copyright.

 

Custom that has been around 20+ years in SoCal

 

I am interested in utes because I had a '61 Ranchero. The similar year ute looks a bit strange because Australian ones use the front doors from a 4 door. I really like the Argentina version. They built it up to the early 90's.

 

Not a ute, a pickup with a separate bed. Custom as you say, with the roof cut off and a car front added.

 

Could be English based , like a Prefect or something?

 

I think the one on the right may be a '39 Willys

 

I sold a very bare 39 std ute body to a chap in the US a few years ago, who was going to use a sedan to complete it.
I wonder how he went...

 

State Library of South Australia (both images). Photographer D. Darian Smith

 

Vanguard ute. Photograph from State Library of South Australia. B14376 Photo taken in Adelaide circa 1960. Holden station wagon/station sedan in front of the ute.