HQ Sandman - Consoles

[HK1837]

Thanks mate. My van has never had armrests and they look like origional door trims to me.

There were people on Fastlane argueing about HQ Sandmans having the later console. I guess unless a photo of one shows up from a new one we will never know. :-)

Maybe Ill run into an old surfee who had one from new...

Another curly one that has surfaced on a board was that HQ Sandmans all had a black steering columes to go with the steering wheel. Mine has the chestnut one to match the interior so I guess Ill say that one isnt right.


Mauser

I'll have to have a look at the steering columns. Knobs were black, Dark Ash or Chestnut. There is no mention of any specific colours for the column pieces so one would assume they are the same as all other Belmont or Kingswood commecial with that trim code, but needs research.
HQ Sandman would never have got any different console to any other HQ, so if they had a different console so did GTS at the same time. Remember HQ Sandman wasn't anything special, just 5 x component options on an otherwise standard vehicle, plus 5 feature changes, some black paintouts, deletion of rocker moulds on Kingswood and a set of stripes in a box. People make out that they are some special thing that had this or that, where reality is they were the ancestor of a VG S pack ute (ie Sports Option).