Long bed utes?

[Erelyes]

Not sure if this belongs here or in the 'optimistic sellers' thread.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used...-982563082.htm

[husaberg]

Fuck that is one ugly vehicle!

Are you sure it wasn't made on TopGear???

Funny enough it is body styled by Americans its a Chev Caprice/Holdern Comadore they even have a 3.8 Buick or a 350 Chev.

[buggerit]

There was an NZ outfit extending the chassis of your standard double cab , adding between the rear wheels and the cab,then
putting the single cab tray on them. Saw it a few years back at the feilddays.
What about a removeable sidecar?

[JimO]

i know a guy that bought a brand new 200series v8 landcruiser and had it chopped up and made into a double cab with a flatdeck probably cost well over 150k all up

[jasonu]

Funny enough it is body styled by Americans its a Chev Caprice/Holdern Comadore they even have a 3.8 Buick or a 350 Chev.

Bullshit. Nothing like that here.

[husaberg]

Bullshit. Nothing like that here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Caprice
Gm supplies the bodies design Holden alters them to suit. The US might not have the Ute version but the sedans you certainly did.

Holden Comadore

Chev Caprice
The same body was used in the UK as a Vauxhall Cavalier


Same thing happened with the Vauhall Chevette/Holdern Isuzu Gemini/Opal Kaddet plus the Viva/HB Torana

[jasonu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Caprice
Gm supplies the bodies design Holden alters them to suit. The US might not have the Ute version but the sedans you certainly did.

Holden Comadore

Chev Caprice
The same body was used in the UK as a Vauxhall Cavalier


Same thing happened with the Vauhall Chevette/Holdern Isuzu Gemini/Opal Kaddet plus the Viva/HB Torana

So I was right. That god awful ute wasn't designed here.
A few years ago there was a a Holden commode rebadged, given a few extra hood scoops etc and sold here as a Pontiac GTO.

[husaberg]

So I was right. That god awful ute wasn't designed here.
A few years ago there was a a Holden commode rebadged, given a few extra hood scoops etc and sold here as a Pontiac GTO.

It depends what you were trying to say to me it was that you never had anything like the Holden commodore or just the ute version of the Commodore , I assumed the former.
The body was regardless the Aussies just chopped of the rear.
Was the Poniac GTO a rebadged two door Monaro?

[jasonu]

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Was the Poniac GTO a rebadged two door Monaro?

Yep that's the one.

[sidecar bob]

What about a removeable sidecar?

I thought that was the obvious choice, or an expanding tank bag.

[BMWST?]

i know a guy that bought a brand new 200series v8 landcruiser and had it chopped up and made into a double cab with a flatdeck probably cost well over 150k all up

some aussie did that too for some 4wd/fishing show

[ellipsis]

...I put a 4.8meter deck on a Dyna...14 race bikes...10 race bikes and a piano...9 race bikes, a piano and the bbq...7 race bikes, the family in a tent, their stuff...4 race bikes, 25 bales of hay...the dog didn't mind all this crowding his space either...

[bogan]

...I put a 4.8meter deck on a Dyna...14 race bikes...10 race bikes and a piano...9 race bikes, a piano and the bbq...7 race bikes, the family in a tent, their stuff...4 race bikes, 25 bales of hay...the dog didn't mind all this crowding his space either...

Twin cab? Pics?

[ellipsis]

Twin cab? Pics?

...I'll pull out some pics when I can...twin cab, what the fuck do you think the tent was?...

[bogan]

...I'll pull out some pics when I can...twin cab, what the fuck do you think the tent was?...

I thought it would be the brakes...