Jalopnik's Truck Yeah blog looked at
Left Hand Utes, which imports Australia's answer to the El Camino and converts them for U.S. use.
Excerpt:
As many of you know, utes are basically the mullet of motor vehicles and a mainstay of Australian transportation -- sedan in the front, pickup truck in the back.
The bodystyle met its demise in America when the El Camino was put down in 1987, but it popularity continued to soar Down Under, making would-be utility car drivers in the States some fierce kinda jealous.
That's where Randy Reese comes in. He's has been operating "Left Hand Utes" in Denver for the last two years, shipping in Holden ute bodies from Australia as "parts only" vehicles and combining them with just enough American car parts to get them legally titled and registered here in the homeland.
Read the rest
here.
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