I walked past this very car when I attended the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2016. The noise, upon startup, is very familiar. The body style is extremely Australian. The entirety of the being that we call a Vauxhall VXR8 Maloo (or Holden HSV Maloo, if you prefer) is everything that’s wonderful about automobiles in ‘Straya.
I’ll be honest… I never really cared for our own El Camino. The Ranchero makes me smile only because we race one in LeMons. For some reason, however, the Aussie ute burnout aficionado speaks to me in a brap-brap language that I can understand completely.
Your word of the day is "Maloo"
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11 responses to “Your word of the day is "Maloo"”
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I’d have a vanity plate on mine that read SKIP TO…
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Honestly, if I could figure out both how to afford and import one of these, I would…RHD and everything.
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Ahem… http://lefthandutes.com/
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RHD is something I want…also I said “afford”.
Granted, right now I drive something which I shouldn’t be, based on both initial cost and current value, but I couldn’t do a cent more.-
But if you told them you wanted to keep it RHD that would make it more “affordable”.
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I wonder if they’d keep it LHD… Hmmmm.
No, I don’t need to think abou this. Bad, CraigSu! Bad, bad CraigSu! 😛
I had finally gotten over the idea that a 1995-1996 Cadillac “family” car (it’s a funeral home thing) was a good idea. I was planning to keep the middle door area, but move the rear of the roof forward to where it’d be mostly normal, then ‘amino the rest of it.
Six passenger Texas pickup!
Like this, but on the final gen D-body platform.
http://www.2040-cars.com/Cadillac/DeVille/1978-cowboy-cadillac-4-door-pickup-el-camino-west-texas-barn-find-1120978/
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Be warned, the rear seat in these is terrible, the backrest is so upright you feel like you are leaning forward when sitting in it.
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Oh, it’s quite likely nobody would ever be back there, I just prefer the ambiance of a larger cabin.
I had regular-cab pickups for quite a while. I think it made me somewhat claustrophobic.-
Fair enough, I usually work on the Franco-from-Gumball theory; what is behind me is not important!
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Too bad the Maloo profile view is so ruined by the structural triangulation behind the doors…very Gen 1 Ridgeline-ish. The old unibody Ford Falcon based Rancheros were not hobbled by this…wonder why…?
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Note there is a big piece of plastic there, which is larger on the HSV utes than the base Holden version. I’ve attached a picture of the first Commodore-based ute from 1990 which is a lot more upright in this area, and I expect it has evolved to the current shape to look more sporty or coupe-like (ref. the full/proper name of “coupe utility”). Because the Commodore ute now have IRS they are sometimes called a sports coupe with a big trunk!
Arguably those early Rancheros were the anomaly, compared with other Rancheros and El Caminos which usually had a bit more style about them than a plain upright cabin. Also the combined size of all 4 of the 1960 Ranchero roof pillars is probably about the same as one A pillar
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2cfe413f06b67bc9958a5b353b070fafa42af927ce40cd8e6920bb3c4a10b896.jpg on the current ute!
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