Was amazed to see an earlier second generation Toyota Crown Ute still working hard for its living as a painters ute a few years ago. So pre 1968 model. I think around 2012 on Melbourne's Eastern Freeway. Paint spatters, loaded up, tarp supports etc. An amazing rare sight after near fifty years. I thought utes are car based with flush body line to the tray part and pick ups being light truck commercial based with no sedan equivalent. However whatever people go with I would not argue too much.
This is probably my favorite type of content. Not shiny, but not run down. It's not perfect, but that's what makes it perfect. The best part, it runs; and he's using it! Great video, thanks for sharing.
BEAUTY! Very nostalgic natsukashii vehicle for me, remember seeing these Crowns at the local Hawai'i Toyota dealer in town though they never did import the pickup version into the US only the 4 dr sedans and station wagons. Also all the Crowns imported here came with the 2M SOHC inline 6 motor. Yet another great vid. Domo arigatou Daniel san.
hi ron is my name I have been importing classic Japanese cars to Australia for over 25 years and have a gs136 crown wagon 1988 model that had been turned into a pickup ute which l bought out of a garage in japan about 6 years ago I drive it most days to work which unlike the old crown utes of the sixties and early seventies it has air con power steering . but still has a full chassis linkage steering just like the old crowns.
when I was a little kid my dad bought a 69 wagon brand new. most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. It became my Uni car later on. Wish I hadn't sold it. I really dug the 1970 ones too, but after that they were a disappointment. Great times in that car.
I love me some Utes, and this one is no exception. I don't think we got those over here, as we had the Ranchero and El Camino, but I hope the Ute do come back in style here in the States. Good catch, Dan.
For some crazy reason, the Toyota Crown was never a big seller here in the USA. I've never understood why. It was offered in very limited numbers, but not enough to make a big dent in US car sales. From what I've heard, the Crown was discontinued in the USA in 1972, with the MS60 series.
Nice find! Maybe you can call all vehicle models that have other body types i.e. saloon, coupe! utes and vehicles that only come with a flat bed design a pickup?
I can assure you, as an American I know pickup trucks. I have had big trucks, little trucks and so fourth. That crown sir is a pickup. Here in the US even what everyone else calls a Ute we still call those a pickup. Maybe not a pickup truck as it's car based but definitely a pickup.
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Apparently the modern accepted difference in Australia between a ute and a pick-up is that a pick-up has a separate cargo compartment whereas the side body moulding of a ute is one piece. But......I may well be wrong. Can anyone else confirm this?
Yeah, sound right enough. I think it would be more accurate to say different countries/regions use different words. In the case of the 70's/80's El Camino, They'd call it a pickup and not a ute.
What about the Nissan camper van next to it with the wood siding Sweet Photina they call it painted on Very nice though rare as rocking horse 💩here as well
nice, but im not too sure how i feel about the paint...im ok with cars that have a patina like this, a natural one that shows the use of the car in many past years...but if someone really brushed the paint to sort of replicate that, thats kinda weird...the paint looked rather nice in the 05, its a long time since then and especially if its used as a daily, it could be a natural fade, but idk lel
Oh, it's the same thing. My point is that Toyota marketed it in Japan as a pickup, therefore it is a pickup. Naturally, this car when sold in Australia was marketed as a ute. Semantics
I had a re-look at the footage. The full odometer is obscured/blurry. The two left-most digits are 24. 24,000, but it's gone around the clock a couple times? Yeah, not sure.
pick up trucks vs ut American answer pick up trucks the bed is not connected to the cab . any car living a not too clean life is always better than a trailer queen while a dead rotten corps of a car shouts a thousand stories to anyone who will listen . the cars thank you and so do we .
