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    nuh thats where you put your ipod and phone when your sleeping.......
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    The tonneau was a hardcover. The Ewet was a styling exercise, they would have just built it without the holes for the tonneau. There was a second vehicle built too with near identical specifications, not sure if it had the same body and interior treatment though. I have a nice colour picture of the Ewet taken at the Sydney Motor show too, for the book. I also have an original of this magazine to scan this article for the book if I cna find the holder of the publishing rights to get permission.
    The article is wrong too, the Ewet didn't have an LSD, the second car did. Ewet was Air/Steer. Sister was Steer and LSD.
    Notice the vans on the cover, even when new they were modded. HQ has an ugly rear sedan/coupe bar and the HJ has Kingswood/Premier tail-light surrounds but they've left the HOLDEN lenses. How ugly is that yellow towbar? The HQ looks like it might have 350 transfers on the guards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HK1837 View Post
    Notice the vans on the cover, even when new they were modded. HQ has an ugly rear sedan/coupe bar and the HJ has Kingswood/Premier tail-light surrounds but they've left the HOLDEN lenses. How ugly is that yellow towbar? The HQ looks like it might have 350 transfers on the guards.
    The HQ sedan bar looks alright. Have seen a HK van with perspex put in where the tail lights were originally and a HQ bar (Now have an idea for the rear of my HZ).
    How can you tell that the yellow van is HQ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by agr071 View Post
    How can you tell that the yellow van is HQ?
    I think that is such an iconic picture, even at age 9 I remember vans at beaches when we lived on the north shore....

    I am thinking that Byron would suggest it being a HQ because the tailgate hinges are the smaller ones?...but there is probably loads of other tell tail signs only he would know....
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    Where did I say the yellow van was a HQ? Looks very much HJ to me. Looking closer possibly the HQ may have GTS badges not 350 transfers on the guards?
    C'mon Agro, you can't possibly be serious that the HQ sedan/coupe rear bar on that HQ van looks OK! I worry about you guys sometimes! Each to their own though......otherwise there'd be no such thing as Fords, homosexuals, cat lovers etc!!!!!! I must admit though, my mate has a HQ wagon rear bar on his HZ XX7 Windsor blue van and it looks quite good, it is the HJ-HZ wagon bars and the HQ sedan/HQ-HX coupe rear bars that look kinda out of place to me.

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    Byron or anyone,
    The HJ on the cover and the Ewet both have tail lights with a fine silver pin stripe on them. Are they from a Statesman, premier or what?

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    TwoTees I'm sure it was mentioned earlier in this thread on page 1. The chrome surrounds are probably off a Prem.
    Yep just checked and it's in post #8.

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