anybody into ute's

[polywideblock]

nice ute on ebay Australia        

                                                       
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VH-VALIANT-UTE-NO-ITS-A-1973-DODGE-SIZZLER-UTE-AWESOME-ONE-OF-A-KIND-RIDE-/181258786564?pt=AU_Cars&hash=item2a33dd9704

its not a factory special  but  

[C_stripes]

I must say, that is bad friggen ass! I would love it

[myk]

Lotsa cool stuff in Australia...

[Mopar Nut]

Ok, I thought you were talking about our Ute's Football team.

Cool car or truck.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1QpyGa61zs

[Ghoste]

Was the 360 a factory thing for those?

[myk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1QpyGa61zs

I KNEW someone was going to post that, lol...

[polywideblock]

Was the 360 a factory thing for those?

318 was the standard V8 you could order the 360 but 90% of them came with the hemi 6

[Ghoste]

They must just scream.

[JB400]

Pretty cool logo on the b pillar.

[Ghoste]

It is.  Was that standard on them or is it something that was added over the top of the stripe later?

[Mytur Binsdirti]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1QpyGa61zs

I KNEW someone was going to post that, lol...

Thinking of this stuff is a tough job, but someone's got to do it. 

[polywideblock]

It is.  Was that standard on them or is it something that was added over the top of the stripe later?

  neither the stripe or the logo are factory both have been added   

[Lord Warlock]

I don't think we have a category name that fits the car/truck combo, we only have ranchero's or El Caminos here so not sure what to call them here stateside.  Wasn't sure what an UTE was when clicked on it.  Some of the australian vehicles were interesting though, wouldn't mind having one or two of the mopar powered ones. 

[Ghoste]

Don`t forget the Dodge Rampage.

[Lord Warlock]

I came soooooo close to buying one of those rampage 2.2 car/trucks in the 80s.  cute, spunky, but instead of touting 0-60 times like all the magazines used to use, they used 0-50 instead, big difference just to get a respectable number.

[polywideblock]

I don't think we have a category name that fits the car/truck combo, we only have ranchero's or El Caminos here so not sure what to call them here stateside.  Wasn't sure what an UTE was when clicked on it.  Some of the australian vehicles were interesting though, wouldn't mind having one or two of the mopar powered ones.  

ute is short for utility vehicle    ,believe it or not Australia invented the pick up   some farmers wife wrote a letter to henry ford asking for a car they could take the pigs to market on Saturday and then drive to church on Sunday   the ute was born  

[Fred]

I don't think we have a category name that fits the car/truck combo, we only have ranchero's or El Caminos here so not sure what to call them here stateside.  Wasn't sure what an UTE was when clicked on it.  Some of the australian vehicles were interesting though, wouldn't mind having one or two of the mopar powered ones. 

ute is short for utility vehicle    ,believe it or not Australia invented the pick up    some farmers wife wrote a letter to henry ford asking for a car they could take the pigs to market on Saturday and then drive to church on Sunday   the ute was born 

I'll drink to that.   

I've always thought it weird that the Americans call the 4WD a sports utility vehicle.

[remta1]

I don't think we have a category name that fits the car/truck combo, we only have ranchero's or El Caminos here so not sure what to call them here stateside.  Wasn't sure what an UTE was when clicked on it.  Some of the australian vehicles were interesting though, wouldn't mind having one or two of the mopar powered ones. 

ute is short for utility vehicle    ,believe it or not Australia invented the pick up    some farmers wife wrote a letter to henry ford asking for a car they could take the pigs to market on Saturday and then drive to church on Sunday   the ute was born 

I thought the kiwis invented the ute and you guys invented pavlova ?






I'll drink to that.   

I've always thought it weird that the Americans call the 4WD a sports utility vehicle.

[Lord Warlock]

Usually the SUV here is the cross between a truck and a station wagon, not just 4wd trucks.  Never quite understood why they termed it that either, its neither sporty, nor very much utility, it was just a bit of rebranding the name of a station wagon since folks here decided they weren't cool anymore to haul families around in. 

[Ghoste]

Yeah, kind of a shortened squatty looking wagon is all they are.  The Magnum was the last great one and not enough people took advantage. 

[Lord Warlock]

I thought the magnum had a pretty good run, they sold them for at least 4 years, but since they looked more like a station wagon than a SUV they had a limited following. I know a few owners here in town that own them, and I liked them more than an SUV which I have always been against.  (the wife wants an suv, but i don't, but if she wants one bad enough she can get one, i just won't drive it that often, I almost never drive her nissan)

[Fred]

Usually the SUV here is the cross between a truck and a station wagon, not just 4wd trucks.  Never quite understood why they termed it that either, its neither sporty, nor very much utility, it was just a bit of rebranding the name of a station wagon since folks here decided they weren't cool anymore to haul families around in. 

Interesting, thanks.
Now that you brought up station wagon.........that's another term that has always left me puzzled. I mean why station? What's the meaning there? Is it short for stationary wagon and if so why, they're just as often on the move as not. Or is it a wagon that get's you to your station and back. I don't get it.

[Fred]

I don't think we have a category name that fits the car/truck combo, we only have ranchero's or El Caminos here so not sure what to call them here stateside.  Wasn't sure what an UTE was when clicked on it.  Some of the australian vehicles were interesting though, wouldn't mind having one or two of the mopar powered ones.  

ute is short for utility vehicle    ,believe it or not Australia invented the pick up   some farmers wife wrote a letter to henry ford asking for a car they could take the pigs to market on Saturday and then drive to church on Sunday   the ute was born  

I thought the kiwis invented the ute and you guys invented pavlova ?






I'll drink to that.  

I've always thought it weird that the Americans call the 4WD a sports utility vehicle.

   
2 December 2010 Last updated at 11:42 GMT

Pavlova created in New Zealand not Australia,  The OED says that, based on written evidence, the pavlova dessert was invented in New Zealand Continue reading the main story


The Oxford English Dictionary may have settled a long-running argument between Australia and New Zealand over who invented the pavlova.

The dessert - meringue with fruit and cream - was named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who visited both countries in the 1920s.

Australians and New Zealanders agree on that, but not on who invented it.

In its relaunched online edition, the OED says the first recorded pavlova recipe appeared in New Zealand in 1927.

[Ghoste]

Station wagon comes from the first proposed uses for them.  When long distance travel in North America was primarily by rail, you would meet your visitors at the rail depot, known here as a "station" in a station hack which had a number of seats and a large area for luggage to carry them from the station to your home or to a hotel or such.  I wouldn't be surprised to learn it predates the automobile with horse drawn wagons designed for the same purpose.

[Fred]

Station wagon comes from the first proposed uses for them.  When long distance travel in North America was primarily by rail, you would meet your visitors at the rail depot, known here as a "station" in a station hack which had a number of seats and a large area for luggage to carry them from the station to your home or to a hotel or such.  I wouldn't be surprised to learn it predates the automobile with horse drawn wagons designed for the same purpose.

I wondered if maybe it had to do with railway stations (we call them stations here too). Just seems odd that they kept the name going for so many years. I guess they just couldn't come up with anything better to call them.  They've only just started calling them sport wagons here now.

[aussiemuscle]

I have a V8 ford ute for my daily driver. I don't need to carry passengers, so it fits my lifestyle.

I wondered if maybe it had to do with railway stations (we call them stations here too). Just seems odd that they kept the name going for so many years. I guess they just couldn't come up with anything better to call them.  They've only just started calling them sport wagons here now.

I don't think it has anything to do with railway stations. even wikipedia doesn't have a definitive origin for the term, only noting the similar terms of "Estate" and "Shooting Break".
in australia very large ranches are called stations. so i've always assumed the term comes from that.

[Fred]

I have a V8 ford ute for my daily driver. I don't need to carry passengers, so it fits my lifestyle.

I wondered if maybe it had to do with railway stations (we call them stations here too). Just seems odd that they kept the name going for so many years. I guess they just couldn't come up with anything better to call them.  They've only just started calling them sport wagons here now.

I don't think it has anything to do with railway stations. even wikipedia doesn't have a definitive origin for the term, only noting the similar terms of "Estate" and "Shooting Break".
in australia very large ranches are called stations. so i've always assumed the term comes from that.

Interesting and poly did say some farmers wife got onto Henry Ford about it so that might well be true. They did call really big farms stations back then (and  are still calling them cattle stations even now). You might have hit on the answer.

[Bob T]

Thats true about the Pavlova Fred   and Phar Lap , you can keep Russell Crowe though  

I had a 1981 WB Holden Panel Van with a 253 V8 bucket seats and M20 4 speed in my twenties, man that was a cool wagon, can't beat the Pano's.
The Chrysler Valiant Pano's were cool too, Orange one a mate of mine owns, its a 318 auto, the yellow is a 318 4 speed, both are 1982 I think.

[polywideblock]

cool cars        did you get the drifters over there ?

[Bob T]

cool cars        did you get the drifters over there ?

Yeah mate, I meant to say the orange pano was originally a Drifter, I knew they guy who had it before he died, blue striped, cool in a 70's kind of way .
Also had seen the Drifter utes, but they were really thin on the ground. There were a few CL 318 utes tho. A guy I know around the road has just finished a VH 318 ute for a DD, satin black with orange widened steelies, looks the part ( again in a cool 70's kind of way )  , have to try to find some pics of it.

edit, ok

[polywideblock]

a mate had almost the same car    black wheels as well but. 215   3 on the tree   

[Fred]

It's a real shame they phased the panel van out.  Don't know why it hasn't made a come back.


                      Oh, and we don't want him either! 

[Bob T]

Holden tried it again with the Sandman II commodore Ute, but cause you couldn't climb into the back from the cabin it was a fail in my book. The real Sandman's were cool. I had one downloaded into the need for speed game and the music it would play on the fame was , you guessed it Mr Sandman, bring me a dream 

[Fred]

Yes, it was a complete flop in everyone's book. It was really just a ute with canopy.
Still see the odd Sandman on the road but they're rare.
A lot of dreams came to fruition in them.

[polywideblock]

my first "real" car was an XB gs panel van    250 three on the tree , actual first was a escort panel van   but they don't count .  had lots of dreams and lived them all     there's nothing like a mobile bedroom when your 17

[Fred]

Or any age for that matter.