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Only someone igornant of the reason the Ute vehicle was nicknamed an "Ute" would not realize that Ute is short for Utility Vehicle.

Just read your post. I guess I also would have to be included in what you described as "igornant" concerning "Ute". I too never new what that term ment. I'm learning stuff already this new year. "Aint it great?"

"Ute" was ahort for "Utility" in Australia, whereas in South Africa it was and is "Bakkie" which is Afrikaans for a "Little Tray".

Oh, by the way I didn't mean to suggest that igonorant was in anyway belittleing anyone, After I posted the reply and I read it I could see where that could be taken wrong, what with the current flap over being P.C., which I have never been very concerned with myself, maybe a bad choice of words on my part?

We had Utes here in the Oilfields since back in the pre WWI Era. The founder of the oil well service company I worked for 30 years , Mr Earl P. Halliburton, Started the company on a shoestring useing a new process he developed to cement well casing in oil wells. He had one employee, a wife and a small child and a Model T Roadster. He built a small pickup style bed in the back of the Model T out of boards to haul cementing tools (Casing shoes and cementing plugs) in. Later when he had a service company encompassing the globe (The very same company that is catching all the flap because of their contracts in Iraq) he ordered both Fourd and Chevrolet Coupes with the small pickup beds rather than a trunk, Mr. Halliburton believed it was a waste of good money to buy what he called a luxury car when a Chevy or Fourd was more economical. He called these Tool pusher beds, GM and Fourd called them Utility Coupes.

(Now, how is that for a history lesson?)

Just finished reviewing all the Chevrolet Models from 1928 - 1942 and failed to find any Utility Coupe Models. Didn't check the Fourds. What did I overlook or are we rewriting history?

No, It may be that your book is just limited in it's content? Most Utility Coupes I have known of were done by a third party plants before being delivered to the local dealer, as there were not a huge number of them done, they were also ordered with a custom paint job with Halliburton Gray and Red. These vehicles were shipped to dealers as fleet vehicle sales and had special factory certificates of origin, with Company names and destinations on the certificates. The dealers were also not always informed of the invoice prices. I saw some of these documents from the 20s and 30s and 40s in old files that were being dumped in the 1960s, I now wish I had of stashed some away.