Sandman Production

[playwme]

I guess you could do your calculations Absinth. If each assembly plant we're able to manufacture 125 each over a nine month period, all you'd have to do is times that by how long that particular model was manufactured for.

Only problem there is that Absinth came up with the 125 in 9 months based purely on the rumour of there being 500 in total, which he doesn't believe anyway. There's not even a confirmed number that you could use to begin to make a rough estimate.

[Dago]

"I reckon that during the 90's most of my generation would not have even known there was a HQ and HJ Sandman. HX and HZ were a bit hard to miss.
I know one HQ sandman van bit the dust by a tenant we had living in the cottage here. Off came the roof and it had a front cut put on from a hz ute and voila..... hq sandman van became a HZ ute. In 1995 a HQ sandman van was worth about $500 and any v8 HZ ute was worth about $5000."

My HX very nearly bit the dust in this exact way in 1996. I was lucky by one week to save it's life. Hahaha, Back then I didn't even know it was a Sandman, Just knew it was a windowless Holden panelvan and that is ALL I ever wanted.

[GNW1974]

The early Sandmans would have to be the rarest as well due to the attitude to commercial vehicles at the time, most were bought for work first and pleasure second. It therefor would be quite logical for initial sales to be slow and demand to build amongst the younger market they were targetting. This is only my opinion and I could be way off the mark.

[RodneyHZ253]

My Holden book gives 452 576 as a number built for cars,wagons,vans,utes,and, cab-chassis.18,092 for statesmans and 13,782 for monaro's and if I'am reading the book correctly 1200 SS's for HQ's.
HJ's there were 154,144 cars,wagons,vans,utes,and cab-chassis.8,383 statesmans and 4,754 monaro's.I know this doesn't answer the question but if these number are right it gives a starting position.the book is the history of Holden since 1917 by Norm Darwin.

[playwme]

HJ's 4,754 monaro's.

I assume that includes 4 door Monaro's? The HJ Coupes are supposed to be pretty rare aren't they?

[RodneyHZ253]

Numbers would include all monaro's

[wbute]

Hmmm, Terry Bebbingtons 50 years of holden gives different numbers to those.Total HJ @176202 but no break down on what is what. 485650 HQ's, 110000HX, and 154000 HZ.

That would have to leave the assumption that after HQ due to the short Sandman run, HX is the next rarest and there should have been more HJ than any others. Who knows though.

Why are there different build numbers anyway? Holden must have run a couple of sets of books to keep the accountants happy:Chin:

[HK1837]

I wouldn't take too much notice of published figures. For a start there were 2800 HQ SS made. HJ coupes were 943 total. Sandman we will never know. I plan to count how many V8 HZ Dandenong vans were built and compare it to how many I have recorded to get a ballpark estimate for what percentage I have compared to how many were built. This will only be an order of magnitude thing though.