What is important in a Sandman

[SLR_dave]

Thank you for your reply HK1837, I appreciate your opinion. I agree it would be more unique in Antelope, and somewhat more faithful, but again as you say, without the chassis hmmn... Still deciding!
Its a van by the way, windowless HX. (scuse my ommission to include that). There is a very slim chance I may find that chassis (one day), it is still around as far as I know, but well... luck is just that! I wouldnt be chopping up another HX van to fix this one though, or visa versa... I started this project to save an ageing beauty from the steel smelter. I realised the issue with cost vs likely value on this one a while back, still, the body was once a Sandman, and it would have been a travesty to let it be crushed, so at least its surviving as is currently.
Maybe Antelope will be the go (wrong chassis or not). Im interested that you advised it was DY1 stripes on Antelope, do you know if this was the only option for Antelope on HX? I got advice for DY4 a while back so I'm wondering how to verify this.
This car has a way to go yet, I have another couple of projects on that will overtake it, maybe I'll end up painting it twice (lol). I hope I am joking, I really dislike painting cars! (lol, lol, lol). Thank you again fo your comment and advice, it helps me on this decision.

[HK1837]

Thank you for your reply HK1837, I appreciate your opinion. I agree it would be more unique in Antelope, and somewhat more faithful, but again as you say, without the chassis hmmn... Still deciding!
Its a van by the way, windowless HX. (scuse my ommission to include that). There is a very slim chance I may find that chassis (one day), it is still around as far as I know, but well... luck is just that! I wouldnt be chopping up another HX van to fix this one though, or visa versa... I started this project to save an ageing beauty from the steel smelter. I realised the issue with cost vs likely value on this one a while back, still, the body was once a Sandman, and it would have been a travesty to let it be crushed, so at least its surviving as is currently.
Maybe Antelope will be the go (wrong chassis or not). Im interested that you advised it was DY1 stripes on Antelope, do you know if this was the only option for Antelope on HX? I got advice for DY4 a while back so I'm wondering how to verify this.
This car has a way to go yet, I have another couple of projects on that will overtake it, maybe I'll end up painting it twice (lol). I hope I am joking, I really dislike painting cars! (lol, lol, lol). Thank you again fo your comment and advice, it helps me on this decision.

I didn't mean to cut up another good car, but to buy a rusted beyond feasible repair complete HX 308 van (from the same body plant as yours - there are only two) and use your body on it. In my opinion you are doing nothing wrong, you are using a HX Sandman body on a Sandman. I'm sure most people would still value this much higher than a Sandman body not on its original rails. This way you'll have a matching numbers example and a 308 spec to boot. You'll buy a car like this for $5k especially in a HX. Just look at the Valencia HZ Sandman Adam was selling, it was a basically complete Sandman and went for less than that on Ebay, and it was a pretty good shell. Maybe investigate that Aqaurius HX Sandman crashed that is up for auction (link is here somewhere).

DY1 comes straight from the GMH colour and trim selection book for HX. There will be no option afaik, these were mandatory with stripes and that is how they came.