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The Art of Ute

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image via Wikipedia"]Chevrolet El Camino Pickup[/caption]
I can't say my work is quality, but I do proclaim to be one of the biggest fans of truck conversions. Car based trucks has always been a curiosity of mine, as a mix of rarity and obscurity, function and form the 'ute' is a concept that is uncommonly embraced for it's logical approach. The idea is simple and although Japan and many other countries received the ever so perfect Kei-trucks we were not as lucky. The next best thing is to achieve this...


Is That Safe?

So is it? Watch the video, I have the answer for you.

The answer is Yes, technically speaking. As much as you think it's another in our great posts on 4 Runners, it's not. But Quinn, surely you jest, my eyes are trained skilled machines and can tell a 4 runner when I see one. You'd be wrong. The Great Wall Motors produced "Safe". Yes that is the name of the company and the model. People question why this happens,...


Blazing Trails flying Winnibago over a group of Trekkies fighting about Wolverine. The Freezing Dolphins were relieved by the Chinook

Yeah, it happened. I'm going to take a wild guess at the name of the 4 runner, and that is perhaps the number of companies competing over building an SUV on the infamous Toyota Hilux/pu? As well as a few neato little campers! So much lounging area in something that was only sold as a Pickup. Let's try to keep our heads wrapped around this..... So we've got the Toyota TrailBlazer: Brought to you by one of my favorite coach builders, Griffith! An enclosed rear cabin, is about...


I don't deserve it.

I can never seem to finish a project. A dreamer, nothing more, a useless dreamer who dreams big, talks tall and never finishes it at all. Self worth is a difficult issue in my life and it's the very reason I drive a beater, live in a trailer in the forest and dress like a hobo. As much of a piece of shit I think I am, I also have a clear, logical side that pipes up from time to time. I've been browsing around Delorean materials for a...


Blinded by the....

...well not the light, but I've been a bit slow. I've been lusting over random 'utes', or 'aminos' from other parts of the world for a long time. Chevy 500s, Pony Pickups, MightyBoys and so on. Bliss is a state of enjoyable ignorance, so I guess it hasn't been bliss but rather an inability to stare directly into the sun. Much like the girl next door, you never really take notice of her until it's too late....