Quote:Interesting idea. This is easy for a 520/620 with separate body and frame (what we call a truck in the US) -- some guys just bolt a wood platform on. But with the unibody construction of the 1200 ute it would be a little different ... just get the grinder and welder out, I guess. You would likely lose some torsional stiffness, since it's flat. That's not good for traction or for roadholding. But for hauling it opens up new possibilities for extra-wide or long loads.

thats what i was thinking, it would make it look soooo small

what made me thin of this was nispares aparently cant get any rear quarters anymore, and i thought, oh well mayaswell go flat bed, wood would prob look best, on the back

1200rallycar wrote:
ive been wondering what a 1200 would look like with a flat bed on the back instead of the whole ute enclosure thing, or maybe no back at all, just to emphasise the small size


Ive seen one. A bloke on the south side of Brissy had a rearender that just took out the tray sides on his ute, but did not touch the chassis/suspension rails. He has tags on it so I guess it is legal. Looks really cool. He has some good HP as he has custom rear wheel arches and 225 on the back and still seems to struggle with traction. The ute looks really cool, but his alloy tray is longer than std styleside length but is still makes the car look heaps smaller.

Yer That would look a bit different. No hassles about standing in the croud! But it make it even more harder to get traction.
I'll look at putting a timber tray, some ozzy hard wood.

I think that I would only put a flat tray on the back of a 1200 if the normal bit was beyond repair or something.

But yeah, I was thinking the same thing about having a flat back 1200 ute the other week.

I would be worth more if you kept the normal tray anyway.

my bro in law said he saw a ute with a flat tray and reckons it looked pretty good, id love to see one, someone do it!

i recon a ute would look sik painted in ford galixy blue .totaly mad colour ,i just painted my 65 chev belair in it ,looks sik wid all the crome work!

YEHHHHH!!

i have seen a hackett gold one! but no hyper ute yet, you know that magna colour it would look sweet on a ute !

you love you hyper yellow and the hackett gold don,t you.

cut the ute bit off no way...... but it is something to think about, i wouldnt do it

paint the ute hyper yellow or midnight metalic blue