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Ford Celebrates 80th Anniversary Of The Aussie ‘Ute’

An Australian icon is turning 80 this year, as Ford prepares to celebrate the ‘Oak Anniversary’ of the Aussie ute.  It was 1933 when 23 year-old designer Lewis ‘Lew’ Bandt was handed a letter by Ford Australia Director Hube


An Australian icon is turning 80 this year, as Ford prepares to celebrate the ‘Oak Anniversary’ of the Aussie ute

It was 1933 when 23 year-old designer Lewis ‘Lew’ Bandt was handed a letter by Ford Australia Director Hubert French; and the coupe pickup truck as we know it debuted the following year.

The origins of the letter are as famous as the vehicle itself, when a farmer’s wife from Gippsland, Victoria, wrote to French with a request.

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