Unlike a pickup truck, the Ranchero was adapted from a two-door station wagon platform that integrated the cab and cargo bed into the body. Chevy Ford Ranchero 1958 backright U (Photo credit: Wikipedia)įord beat Chevy to the punch with the Ford Ranchero, a coupe utility produced between 19. Traveling there for me is high on my bucket list! Ford vs. Utes are gone here in the US but are huge in Australia as my daughter will find out this summer when she travels there as a Student Ambassador in the People to People Program. Pick up trucks are built on a truck chassis while the Ute is built on a car chassis. Well aren’t these just like pick up trucks? Close but not quite. Ute is believed to be an abbreviation for “utility” or “coupé utility”, a term used originally in Australia and New Zealand, then also South Africa to describe passenger vehicles with a cargo tray in the rear. Ford released the Coupe Utility the next year and that’s how it all started. Rough and ready trucks existed but Bandt, who worked for Ford’s design department, took a two-door 1933 Ford V8 coupe and grafted on to it a cargo-carrying tray. The story goes that in the early 1930s Ford received a letter from a woman wondering if there could be a vehicle in which her husband could take pigs to market during the week, and her to church on Sundays. Bandt is credited with inventing the ute. It’s a name with great automotive significance. G’day mates! Travel towards the Great Ocean Road from Melbourne and as you skirt Geelong on the new bypass you’ll cross the Moorabool River on the Lewis Bandt Bridge.
It all started “down under” 1934 Ford Coupe Utility (Aus) (Photo credit: IFHP97)
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