Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:
Utes are cool but sawed of wagons/cars are pretty lame overall. Sometimes they work out but usually....bleh
If you are already buying something, just buy a small cheap truck
I think at the end of the day this is the boring but right answer. A trailer always has resale value. A regular car has resale. A truck has resale. A combination of all 3 has very little resale. Heck, an el camino has resale!
And the combination has the propensity to take hundreds or thousands of hours to complete correctly, and I dunno what your time is worth but that makes a DIY ute pretty damn expensive. I love the dream. I lived the dream. I awakened.
In reply to Robbie (Forum Supporter) :
All very true.
And to the OP, I love Utes. I own a Rampage, my dad had a Ranchero and I seriously looked into importing one of several Falcon Utes.
Sawed off cars arent exactly Utes though too, they just sorta look the part
Driven5
UberDork
11/17/21 11:56 a.m.
In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
While a minivan could certainly ute, it would also perform the stated objectives without modification. I haven't followed prices on them enough to know if they're more, less, or similarly expensive compared to a compact pickup though.
Chevy Astro or Ford Aerostar would make a good ute, mostly because they're already BOF. Any unibody car that you start hacking into the roof structure has the potential to go very wrong, very quickly.
A Geo Tracker/ Suzuki sidekick would also make a good ute. They're most of the way there already. Available with 4x4 if you want it, stick shift, and diiiiirt cheap used- especially 4 doors.
https://chevroletforum.com/forum/tracker-26/4-door-tracker-modified-into-two-door-pickup-88050/
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
Wow, that is what the X90 should have been.
Another idea, looks like a Ranger bed:
