The early HJ parts catalogue list two GTS fascia's. manual and console shift.... column shift... both are silver. The later HJ parts catalogue lists black, woodgrain and silver GTS fascia's but the silver one is listed as Monaro only..... no mention of Sandman whatsoever.

The HX parts catalogue lists the silver GTS dash as Sandman and Monaro only.

When the change occured and if it did actually occur is unknown.

To restore my fascia the first thing I did was take it down to the paint shop and had the silver matched in acrylic lacquer. I plastic welded the cracks and repaired the radio cut out using an undamaged kingswood fascia. Masked it up and re-painted it silver.

I am going to do another one shortly and will post a how to with pics when I do. It's not that easy and you need a good plastic welder... I paid $600 for my welder but I have seen similar on Ebay for around $200... don't know how good they are though.

If you are just going to restore the one fascia you might be better off sending it to Dash Revival, Dash Original or The Dashboard Doctor. I know Patrick at Dash Revival charges around $300 to repair and re-paint them depending on where and how much they are damaged.