blueys - Ute Accessories

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Although Bluey’s Ute World only started trading in 1995, its roots go back to 1980.

In that year an Aussie named John Bryant was travelling around South Africa with an Afrikaner called Hasie; Hasie, amongst many other things, was President of the local Porche Club.

One day Hasie put one of his Porsches in for service, and while it was there he was given a Ute on loan. In the back of the Ute John noticed a strange looking protection mat – it appeared to be made from old tyres.

“Ya” said Hasie, “ivry-vone here uses das mats in da Bakkies (Bakkie is Afrikans for Ute). Dey’s made frum ohld tyres and not only do dey stop da gear frum schliding about, but dey also ‘breathe’, allowing air to pass through da mat to stop da rust.”

“Stark raving bloomin’ fantastic” thought John, “we need these mats in Oz. Every Ute owning son-of-a-gun needs one in his Ute”. After tracking down the African manufacturer, a deal was done and woven rubber recycled Ute mats started to flow into the Aussie market. All went well for a while, until one dark day several years later when John received a terrible fax from Hasie in South Africa. It read:-

“Got moanin’ Johan ! I haf bad news. Da mat factory dat maken da mats for da Bakkie is bang up ‘n burn it to da ground. All da tyres dey goes up in smoking. All da mats is kaput. All the machines is kaput. All da biziness records is flamin’. Da staffs is very kaput becoz dey have no jobins workin’ it. It’s a bad day Johan indeed – much more money will be lost it.”

Not being a lad to break down and cry over small mishaps, John hunted around Oz and finally found a really cluey engineer. To cut a long story short, John ended up commissioning his own tyre processing machines and set up his very own factory which, after lots of heart ache and hassles, started to turn old tyres into Ute mats. BODYGUARD woven rubber Ute mats !

After several years selling their famous BODYGUARD Ute mats, J