DITCH Jones’s HR ute (SM, Apr ’07) was one of those cars that you could call ‘polarising’. The two-tone paint, wild teal-coloured interior and welded-up tailgate definitely had tongues wagging when it debuted at Summernats 20, with people either loving or hating the styling. One thing that couldn’t be argued though was the level of detailing and build quality that went into the car, which Ditch had owned and showed since the late 80s.
He took the HR off the road in the late 90s, as he recalled in our 2007 feature on the ute: “I wanted to take
