The iconic truck that saved a dying country town | 60 Minutes Australia

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Rewind to 2009 when the annual Deniliquin Ute Muster brought tens of thousands of revheads to the small Riverina country town to spin their wheels in the dust and celebrate the Australian icon - the You Beaut Ute.
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[@reevestocks7393]

10:05 - “I smell burning rubber”……”it’s clutch” 😂😂

[@kristofergobbe4838]

Makes me proud to be an Aussie.🇭🇲

[@matscarborough]

Well said! Me too! 🇦🇺

[@RALLYFANCLUBn1]

ты патриот? 👍 а ты коренной австралиец? или приезжий?

[@alexfagan5182]

I love how the city say it's odd it's called living

[@larrylongprong5219]

First car was a 1980 WB ute with a 5 post bull bar. Ex farm ute from scone👍

[@natashagreen5385]

Deni is the best 🎉 I love working in Deni

[@webeto5902]

I saw it for the first time in my favorite Australian tv show - McLeods Daughters. LOVE IT!

[@elizabetheaton3882]

Gotta love the Australian spirit! 😀

[@tomperry1048]

As well as the Fosters, mate.

[@chileaus]

The title should say "The iconic utes that saved a dying country town"

[@mikespearwood3914]

Yep, thumbs down when I saw "truck" in the title with no trucks present in the picture. Must be using the incorrect term "truck" to appeal to Americans or something??

[@chileaus]

@@mikespearwood3914maybe

[@Rastusmishka12]

Someone get this to Iwrocker!!

[@jasondilworth2767]

I thought of him as I started watching 😄 , it's on this weekend so would be a good time for him to do a show on it

[@Rastusmishka12]

@@jasondilworth2767 Unfortunately I'm not heading down but my brother is. Apparently it's looking to be a big one!

[@111jacare]

Going back about 7 years ago, there was a Ford LNT 8000 in a second hand motor vehicle dealers' lot, in Edwardstown. The truck had a tub on the back! Passed comment to the train driving neighbour... "Yes, we need to pool our resources and make a purchase!!!"

[@PhantomWoIf]

the australians have a great life having their own farms and own cattle. appears like they have lots of fun too. i would like that. these australian pick-up trucks, from somewhere long time ago i heard they are called "Hughes". or maybe i remember wrong ? are these trucks known as "Hughes" in australia ? i think it was in an australian movie i heard the term "Hughe" for these trucks, cant remember exactly what movie it was, must be like in the later 1990s. was it that tv series "flying doctor service" from australia or another tv serie or movie. these trucks are so much time in australia, they are like part of austrialian culture when i see these trucks in australia in some video.

[@richyearle007]

They are called Utes in Australia..

[@PhantomWoIf]

@@richyearle007 sounds similar, ute and hughe, when spoken. i guess thats why i heard hughe instead ute back then. is "ute" short for utility ? Edit: thanks for telling.

[@richyearle007]

@@PhantomWoIf Yes mate ,Ute is an abbreviation for utility..

[@James-fn9up]

I'm a truck driver.. please don't call our Ute's trucks.. we're not American...

[@JC-zg4xe]

@@James-fn9up Semi truck, pickup truck. different things just a shortened name. The only real utes ended production in 2016 and 2017

[@SM-hn2od]

Much more wholesome and way less "odd" than any festival in Sydney.

[@downunderfulla6001]

I believed you until you said Sydney

[@captlazer5509]

A friend of mine use to buy classic American cars to ship to Australia. I never asked, but now I wonder if any Detroit built Chevy El Camino or Ford Ranchero showed up in Australia and what the reaction would be?

[@tractorguy1994]

There's a fair few over here

[@yeahrightmate]

Not much!

[@ga1e0john35]

Yeah they are around. Not hard to find one if you want one.

[@lutomson3496]

there are a few Utes here in the US there a couple of importers that import them wish we would have had them here in the US instead of larger pick up trucks I did have a 1970 ford ranchero with a 429 super cobra jet engine, it would burn tires greatly and easily!

[@nedkelly9688]

@@lutomson3496 Fair few Aussies who moved to USA bought their utes over also. Had a friend on tiktok who showed videos of one Aussie having Maloo and normal SS Holden utes. Is a dumb Aussies ripoff Mechanic chased by many angry customers who took a Ford ute over too.

[@eustaquiozambrano2974]

Thank you so much. 👍

[@Jorge-martin-1_aprillia]

When i heard truck i thought of deni freighters cause my dad worked for them for a few years before he passed away great company russell tait great guy but then i realised it was a shitty way to say Ute 😂 i been there past 6 7 years my mom has been going for almost a decade

[@scofab]

Most excellent, thank you.

[@morgansoper7536]

Literally just got back from deni 2nd year goin and fucken love it

[@edwilko8819]

❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂i cant wait to visit

[@aarronmetcalfe-ec6yw]

Beautiful area😅

[@vickythefist7062]

Can't believe it makes 20 million dollars .crazy money

[@RALLYFANCLUBn1]

мне понравились девочки, которые сами крутят гайки и папа - это одобряет)

[@jone7079]

Awesomeness !! 🥳🥳

[@munibachaudharyfoodsecrets4666]

Good morning very nice and beautiful 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@bigbangger998]

"Mate " did you bringyabongalong?

[@SCREAMILLUSION]

Truck? It's a fucking ute.

[@billymack333]

Has been a hit since day one. A unique Aussie experience. Definitely worth a visit. Lovely ladies.

[@HomelessWhiteMaleStartingOvera]

Infested with VD. All of them.

[@Larry-p8t]

Looks better then Bathurst

[@bill13690]

That silver Ford Falcon 500 ute with Grandma in it as she calls it " is about 56 years old - given that Falcon was built in 1967 or thereabouts ? Regards Bill.

[@johngibson3837]

Hey Bill when I seen the front thought xr so one before xw which is 69. I am old so could have this wrong

[@billeves4627]

The show was recorded in 2009. You can hear a guy call out "Deni 09"

[@vintagetintrader1062]

Yes a 1976 XR Falcon ute, my first car was a badly painted XR Wagon, with its huge 200,ci 6 cylinder engine lol Always looking for a good XR ute to restore. Not many left

[@johngibson3837]

Back in second half of 80s mate said his brothers old xy was sat in paddock near cooma and did i want it as me a fan ov the xw/xy, picked it up made it work, had clourd written on tail gate apparently well known in cooma/snowy mountains area, his brothers nickname was jesus i knew him as billy, like I've said clourd was well known there were tshirts made eg i slept in clourd i woke up in clourd i whatever in clourd, i don't think im spelling clourd correct, anyway used it a bit motor was worn out changed that to a cross flow did other stuff to suit what i wanted and clourd was one of the best ive ever had, with any luck some people might see this and have memories

[@johngibson3837]

The t-shirts were from Billy had it

[@karenreaves3650]

Love it.

[@tomperry1048]

& Tara ...

[@castrain1419]

"The 'Truck' that saved a town"? It's a bloody Ute, it's called the ute muster where the bloody hell did you get truck from??

[@jamesgovett3225]

In reality the name “Ute” is short for utility when the first sidevalve V8 Ford utility built in Geelong in the 1930’s was offered by the Ford Motor Company of Australia ( not Ford Motor “Corporation “as Chuck Woolley said ) as the “Enclosed Coupe Utility” whereby the cab was enclosed and the Ute bed was part of the body structure as an example the Holden HQ Ute was built to this original design and whereby Holden also manufactured the HQ Holden “One Tonner” which was not sold by GM-H as a Ute and never advertised to be one as it was a seperate model and was known correctly as a “ Cab Chassis” whereby the cab was seperate from the load bed and could be had with anything from a steel to aluminium tray bed to a “Luton Peak body fitted to it and I also remember and what the newer generations don’t is the fact that all our Australian built Ford F-100 style of commercial vehicles sold here were known as a “pick up” like in the USA and were not ever called a Ute in Australia, but so really if you want to get technical the majority of vehicles at the muster are not enclosed coupe utilities at all but more along the lines of a cab chassis or pick up as in all the Hi-Luxes and Nissans and Mazdas etc etc and seems it’s only the car companies over the years conditioning people as if their Utes as the manufacture of the real Aussie Ute began to decline and disappear altogether like unfortunately the rest of the Australian motor industry which is very sad indeed!

[@bushratbeachbum]

Nobody wants to get technical. They're having fun. Which is ok sometimes.

[@jamesgovett3225]

You know what you are absolutely right, at the end of the day it is all about everybody having fun and a good time 👍

[@joy2406]

That's news many American's/Canadian's think it came from their side. The fact is the very Idea/concept came from down under. Eventually it became bigger and they call it pick up truck in the America's.

[@yuritarded8608]

It came from America our 60's ford falcon utes were almost identical to the American ones

[@miketran4289]

@@yuritarded8608 Did you not watch the video? The first ute in the world was made just after the great depression in Australia.

[@yuritarded8608]

@@miketran4289 no it wasn't ahaha, mate get that stick out of your arse and do some actual research sorry to burst your bubble but Australia isn't that special as you think

[@nedkelly9688]

Pretty bad if that gold SS Holden ute wins the donut competition. Doesn't look or sound like much.

[@AussieTVMusic]

That's not a ute. This is a ute.

[@wowogaming101]

Now that’s what I call a pick up truck show

[@forgottenknowledge8917]

Eshay bah

[@RagdollRacingInc]

Don't you mean WB or GTS there isn't a GT ute

[@dmystify1381]

Holden,bought to you by Ford....oh god i can hear the moans n groans....🤣😂

[@sillywilly9183]

No wonder metal polish has gone up in Australia

[@AdyAde197]

This a old documentary

[@weburnitatbothends]

Great to see real 2 door utes and not the 4wd dual cab wank fest that smothers the streets

[@HyperRide79]

Yeah Baby! Oi oi oi.

[@ga1e0john35]

Yeah the the BNS bandits

[@VenomRoadRacing]

High speed 😅🤣

[@tonybarnden1990]

Its a ute

[@willm687]

Interesting 60 minutes show people ripping skids in a paddock but when someone’s does it on a back road or private residence near a city, 60 minutes crack the Shits

[@1970GenXer]

This is a organised community event, with safety precautions in place, such as fenced off areas where the Ute's are competing, and there will definitely be an Ambo station set up somewhere. So it's a big difference to a bunch of drunken/stoned hoons on a backroad somewhere 🤦‍♀️

[@willm687]

@@1970GenXer it was a joke mate .

[@1970GenXer]

@@willm687 looked more like a whing to me, but whatever.

[@willm687]

@@1970GenXer I was more getting into the blokes that bitch about doing dumb shit then ending up on 60 minutes

[@redburban1394]

That was very cool,I love the UTE. But they need to bring back the Ford Rancho and the Chevy El Camino in the USA 🇺🇸 . But do they make a UTE 4x4 ?

[@johngibson3837]

Yes there was a ford xy Ute available with 4wd that I know about and always wanted, don't know of the engine choice but defo a 250, anyway if the V8s not an option from the factory would be simple to upgrade

[@redburban1394]

@@johngibson3837 unfortunately we can’t get the UTE’s in the states. And you do you have to modify it a lot to meet emissions .

[@johngibson3837]

Xy is1971 so sort of old, not sure of the 4wd but rest of xy could have 351 cleavland, in states you would be more aware of 351 Windsor Which was used in Oz till xw, the year before, if you're interested look up xy GT 351 as a car they are. Cool and sort after, the GT not available as a Ute but as people made GT lookalikes or now days called replica or tribute, some back in day and probably still made up xy GT Ute I think it best? Replica as was never made by ford but has been done for a long time as ozi like Ute and but ford didn't bother doing a GT, as for the emissions I don't know but would think at 50 odd years old would or should be exempt, thankyou

[@tex308253]

Plenty of 4x4 utes in Australia from car manufacturers such as Holden,Ford,Toyota, Mitsubishi, Nissan etc !

[@theemporersnewclothes]

🍻

[@MartintheTinman]

Its a Ute, Yanks drive Trucks

[@James-fn9up]

It's not a truck.. don't pretend to be Australian if you call it a truck..fs....

[@arturogarcia209]

Subaru the best car i been owning so far.

[@paddy131370]

Iconic Ute …. Definitely not a truck we are not yanks

[@rexchiquine6049]

Im the outback outlaw,,,

[@HomelessWhiteMaleStartingOvera]

I stopped at 00:41 - Mainstream media never missing a chance of make it all about the whamen. Disgusting. I am outta here.

[@vickythefist7062]

Haha . I wondered why they had some women in a mini skirt showing off her back tattoo. Don't know what using a whip and all that pink shits got to do with yutes .I'm completely lost now

[@KironManuelCards]

If the Australians come to Asia, they can earn tons of money. I live in Asia. I am not allowed to own a car

[@Unknown-nf1se]

Why aren’t you aloud to own a car ?

[@KironManuelCards]

@@Unknown-nf1se why are there bad people? Just like what happens in Ukraine, this repression is going on Asia. Kindly decide to come to Asia and meet me. I can give you details like about the country and restrictions.

[@miketran4289]

@@Unknown-nf1se Ultra high prices due to taxes because local govs don't want people to have cargs to congest the roads. Look at Singapore and Vietnam cars and you'll see..Nothing is stopping you from owning a car in Asian countries other than money.

[@edwilko8819]

❤😂❤😂❤😂quite alot of these aussies dont know what a ute is alot of them are pick up trucks and utility trucks ❤😂

[@bushratbeachbum]

Hmmmmm

[@downunderfulla6001]

Go back to America

[@G-force_Motorsport]

Where is the 'truck" the title suggests?? Disliked.

[@brucenicoll4373]

Uterus unless it has a sex change

[@jazzabags8948]

The 2wd utes with truck bull bars and aerials 3m high make no sense. People who drive them are bogan's. The utes look terrible

[@downunderfulla6001]

A truck bullbar isn’t possible to fit on a ute

[@jazzabags8948]

@@downunderfulla6001 they're big enough to fit. Still look crap on a ute

[@downunderfulla6001]

@@jazzabags8948 I know what you meant. Tuff bars are huge

[@forddriver8827]

Incest is alive and well in The Delinquent Muster.

[@samshepperrd]

Put the driver's seat on the right side and it could be Texas.

[@danamorey351]

It is on the right side. American would be on the left side.

[@tomperry1048]

@@danamorey351 Yup, Dana is correct.

[@samshepperrd]

@@danamorey351 Americans have their seat on the right side. Aussies have their seat on the wrong side.

[@jeffo1017]

@@samshepperrdCars in australia definitely have the steering wheel on the right side

[@sonofadutchman9315]

Mate, have a good look, it’s definitely on the right side, ya might have to roll your head around a bit, we’re under the equator down here.

[@Abubakr466rakha]

Don't think you bush girls can come up to the city and make the men here fall for you. We're city people we love our city, and your life is not something we could ever fit into.

[@S3pra]

I don’t reckon they’d be a fan of the city…

[@Abubakr466rakha]

@@S3pra but you never know if they'd ever want a city guy to fall for them. Thinking he's probably so rich.

[@S3pra]

@@Abubakr466rakha Why would they think that?

[@bushratbeachbum]

Hahahahahahahahahaha. You poor deluded fool.

[@jakewright5055]

Last peraon to deserve to drive that ute is anyone from 60 minutes. This doc shoukd be done by another person for sure.

[@davidbell1676]

60 minutes is running out of material to GOSS a bout.. what's next a story about a flower festival at some remote town... Deni has never been a dying town it's just the same with or without a hillbillie car show.

[@johno9507]

This was from 2009.

[@the_patriot7]

so it's all American cars ???

[@adamroper1197]

General Motors Holden and Ford were iconic names in the Australia. They designed and produced vehicles exclusively for the Australian market until the early 2000s, when they began exporting some of their models to the USA. The Pontiac GTO and Chevrolet SS are great examples of Aussie-designed and built cars that made their way to American shores. And let's not forget the classic Interceptor from Mad Max - an older Aussie car that never made it to the states.

[@janeblogs324]

So basically, not a single Murican car. Wankers drive rams and raptors these days but they have brain damage

[@the_patriot7]

@janeblogs324 what is murican ??? 🤣🤣🤣

[@adamroper1197]

It's a word that the English speaking world uses to mock seppos that are ignorant of the world outside of 'Murica. @@the_patriot7

[@sonofadutchman9315]

@@adamroper1197don’t forget that we exported our utes to the states and UK, they loved them. Damn shame that Henry and the General couldn’t stand to see us do better than what they could and decided to outsource to Mexico. Build Holdens again with an XR6 donk in it, all Australian!

[@DidIhurturfeelings]

Fkn flogs

[@goulash75]

Hahaha. Google is trying to translate your comment. Apparently it means "Fkn of seizures".