Sandman production build sheet

[HK1837]

See the photo of the shell in the top left corner? That is taken at my mate's place when it was bought back from where it was found (in Gilgai NSW). It was just a shell and chassis, nothing more. But the best rust free HQ you'll ever see. It was stripped of all its Sandman gear and put into a 1-tonner many years before. It was the very first Sandman recorded in the database! Because it was a Pagewood van in white it was almost impossible for me to prove it was a Sandman given the data available at the time, and hence started my research. How it is now is a credit to its current owner.

[mauser]

Here is one question I have. Buickzz do you have a photo of your origional grill.

The poster of the Van I have in my avitar was recently reproduced in high-res A3 size in a magazine. It has a fully black grill. I have asked here before and Ozbox has indicated the HQ Sandman was a GTS grill with silver on the surrounds and the centre bar with the blue badge.


like this sucker...

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..or the HQ GTS add like OZBox showed me.

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interestingly but the HQ SS seems to have the fully blacked out grill.

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Just wondering .... are their grill part numbers different? ... or did the hick QLDers just grab the spray gun and give it a lick..haha

Plant differences maybe? I'm sure the teetotaler dudes in Adelaide would of gone by the book.



Mauser

ps Can we have some more photos of your restored van... it's very cool.