GTS gaurds on an HX Sandman Van... factory option?

[Vombil]

Hey guys, according to the site info GTS guards were not standard on HX so i wanted to know if they could have been ordered from factory as an option?

[HZSandman]

doubt very much from factory but from dealer possible even if not technically available.

Anything to sell a car.

[wbute]

Yeah this has been talked about before. Not an option but anything could be dealer fitted if you bent over and paid extra.

[Vombil]

thanks guys ?? so you could order colour and motor size and tranny combos but not guards??

[razsandman]

I know of a Hx sandman that was ordered with a twin headlight front from new. but im not sure if it was factory or dealer fitted. my friend who owned knew the original owner between them they owned the van up untill just a few years ago.

[HK1837]

It'd be dealer fitted. Probably a Papaya HX van? Unless it was a GMH TEST VEHICLE, then it may have been done in Engineering or done for display.

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thanks guys ?? so you could order colour and motor size and tranny combos but not guards??

You could order the same options that were available on the base vehicle (HOLDEN ute and van for HX) except where a higher option level was already fitted eg you couldn't go back to bench seat or column shift or black (19V) trim. Some normal options were not available because of the package eg vinyl floor covering.
The standard Sandman package in HX was XU3, or you could order the alternative XX7. On either of these the only Sandman specific option available was DL7 (delete stripes). There was one other option available and that is the option to have the engine size badge fitted to the tailgate however this didn't have an option code. The standard XU3 and XX7 packages had this badge deleted, so if you bought one off the lot and didn't order it, most likely the badge would have been absent.

[Vombil]

cheers for the info Raz and HK... just trying to decide whether or not to take my GTS guards off before the big re-spray. They are relatively rust and bog free. As long as its possible that the car was delivered with them i think ill leave them :Tongue:

thanks again!

[Absinth]

cheers for the info Raz and HK... just trying to decide whether or not to take my GTS guards off before the big re-spray. They are relatively rust and bog free. As long as its possible that the car was delivered with them i think ill leave them :Tongue:

thanks again!

GTS guards on HX/HZ Sandman were not optional and no HX/HZ Sandman would have been delivered with them from the factory. If fact GTS guards were not optional on any model Holden, they came standard on HT/G/Q/J/X/Z GTS, HQ SS, GTR and HQ/HJ Sandman only.

While it may have been possible to have a dealer fit them for you from spare parts it would be highly unlikely this would have occurred due to the high cost for the dealer to do so. I very much doubt any HX/HZ Sandman was dealer delivered with GTS guards, more likely owners had them fitted and painted by panel shops or fitted by the owners themselves when customising their car.

[HK1837]

^^Absinth has just about nailed it. Just think of all the VT and VX's out there with VZ Monaro bonnets, and how many would have been dealer fitted. It is technically possible, but unlikely.

Absinth, although irrelevant to the discussion you missed two production vehicles also: HK GTS and HX LE.

[HZSandman]

If you do keep them then you wont be able to stick the little Sandman decals on the guards.

Have seen a few vans where they stick these decals just behind the front door windows instead.