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Old 11-02-2003, 06:28 PM
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I have a keyring with a moose, a present from Sugarfreecandy who was a pixies member till her parents found some of her naked pics on the puter when she was living at home. (she was 22 at the time LOL)

Anyway that is a little aside from the subject.
I have 3 rings in the key ring, one with my Subaru keys and car alarm device, one with work keys and the other has flat and shed keys.

Jseal ... DM is right in one way a ute ... short for a utility vehicle is what americans call a pickup. It is not the Aussie version of a pickup, the pickup is the American version of the ute.

In 1933 a Gippsland (In the State of Victoria) farmer's wife wrote a letter to Ford and she said "Can you build me a vehicle that we can go to church in on Sunday without getting wet, and my husband can use it to take the pigs to market on Monday?" So the idea of combining a car and a truck together was something that Lew Bandt, who then was the young designer of Geelong, came up with. He took the 1933 model coupe and built the back on it and strengthened the chassis so that it would carry the load, and it was approved and they went into production in 1934. From the front, it's just a very nice Ford coupe passenger car. At the back, of course, is the workhorse part of it, but inside this is exactly what the farmer's wife from Gippsland wanted. She wanted wind-up windows, she wanted comfortable seats, she wanted a roof that didn't let the rain in, and Lew Bandt provided just the car for her. The influence that Lew Bandt had on the Australian motor industry was tremendous, but he also had an influence right around the world because virtually every other manufacturer, certainly of popular cars, built a coupe utility and all of them were derived from the idea that Lew Bandt had in 1933.
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