Re: not butter, guns

jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 09:48:29 -0400 (EDT)

> Really? Over here a ute (and I'm happy to say that, like the rotary clothes
> hoist, we invented them (: ) is a vehicle with a car for the front half and
> a truck for the back half. Kind of a mini-truck if you're like. And don't
> tell me that they're going to become the latest trendy American vehicle ...
> oh God that's a screamer ...

uhm.  no.  that was a failed 70's idea call the "El Camino" in the US.  It
was a car with a backend like a truck.  Couldn't carry much of a load
though, because of only a little better than car type suspesion / shocks.
My father has one and loves it, to my shagrin.  

-j