I lived in the Mallee in WA in the very early 80's, there were 4 of us in our basketball team that all drove utes, i had my Q, another a dark blue 308 with Statesman front and trim (beautiful ute and a Z i think), a HZ 253 and one lad had his Dad buy him a brand new WB 202 4 speed. We had a lot of fun cruising the bush.

Farm utes were everywhere, many just used and abused until they were scrap.