"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
01/03/2019 at 16:31 • Filed to: CL, barn finds.com, Ford
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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
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in NY state if anyone’s interested?
lone_liberal
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/03/2019 at 16:53 |
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Ok, we have to have a discussion about this. That, to me, is a pickup and a ute is a car based vehicle with a bed like a Ranchero or El Camino. A quick visit to The Wiki gives me this:
Traditionally the term referred to vehicles build on passenger car chassis and with the cargo tray integrated with the passenger body. However, present-day usage of the term “ute” in Australia and New Zealand has expanded to include any vehicle with an open cargo area at the rear; [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] which would be called a pickup truck in other countries
So I guess usage has left me behind. So never mind. Carry on.
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> lone_liberal
01/03/2019 at 16:56 |
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in South Africa it would be called a bakkie
PowderHound
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/03/2019 at 16:59 |
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In NY. Been sitting for 2-3 years outdoors.
Pass. Be prepared to shear off every bolt head and extract every bolt that exists on this thing.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/03/2019 at 16:59 |
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They didn’t update that truck until 1986. How do I know? I used to own the Mazda version of the same truck. Mine was an ‘83 which my mom bought new and handed down to me.
Although this one isn’t mine, mine was nearly identical. It only needs the blue interior and a fancy blue pinstripe down the side.
This little truck came with an inline four with all of 76 hp. It was fun, but it wasn’t going anywhere fast.
Things to watch out for:
The head is aluminum and the block is iron which is prone to interior corrosion. The corrosion causes the hoses to fail prematurely and when it overheats from a lack of coolant, the head warps. You can guess how I know.
There’s a bolt somewhere in the transmission that is prone to falling out, bouncing around, and taking out one or more gears. I learned that one the hard way too.
The sheet metal is more akin to thick cardboard than real steel.
With relatively soft leaf springs in back, the rear end is prone to wheel hop.
The a/c looked like a dealer add-on and the temperature controls are somewhat fragile. The plastic caps tend to pop off. Even worse, the temperature control circuit failed in mine and the system was either off or blasting frigid air.
The stock mounting location for the speakers results in one speaker blasting in your right ear while the other is hard to hear . I have hearing loss in that ear because I kept turning it up until I could hear both speakers . :)
WilliamsSW
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/03/2019 at 18:27 |
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Nice! I learned to drive stick on one of these -- but it was a U-Haul Mini-Mover, with a little box on the back. It was a lot of fun!
Just Jeepin'
> TheRealBicycleBuck
01/03/2019 at 19:02 |
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My dad had a Mazda pickup when I was a teenager, probably that model . He rolled it and had to buy something different, so he bought a used Chevy Citation. What a piece of shit that was, but at least I had a guaranteed car once I got my license.
Urambo Tauro
> lone_liberal
01/03/2019 at 19:12 |
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Thank you for that quote. I’ve been struggling with this too, and I would have been okay with working from a standpoint of whether it’s car-based or truck-based, if it wasn’t so hard to choose where to draw the line. Ride height? Nah, there are plenty of low trucks and tall cars out there. But there’s got to be some clear physical distinction to tell utes from trucks despite them sharing the most identifiable feature: the open cargo bed . Couldn’t base it on unibody vs body-on-frame either.. . I’ll have to give it some more thought, but t he integrated cab/bed thing might be just what I was looking for .