Oldmans HX Sandman

[HQGTSbrad]

Is that Barbados green you can see through the speaker hole in the driver door of the third photo?? Good stuff mate on the collection so far. You remind me of myself at your age, except you have a far better collection than I had. I was lucky, I got my sandman at 17.

Yea mate thats barbados green, its not the cars original colour its original is Chrome Yellow



the back doors are the original as they are yellow under neath. but the two front are not the passenger side is white it also does not have its GTS GUARDS the old owner wanted them for his hq tonner so he got some normal guards and sprayed them to suit the paint (crap).

[ozbox]

i know its only a picture and pictures sometimes dont show up colours correctly but that hq gts doesnt look chrome yellow..chrome yellow is very bright compared to that yellow..and btw welcome youngun...

[HQGTSbrad]

i know its only a picture and pictures sometimes dont show up colours correctly but that hq gts doesnt look chrome yellow..chrome yellow is very bright compared to that yellow..and btw welcome youngun...

yea i dont know i typed in google chrome yellow hq monaro and found that.

[HQGTSbrad]

my dads Uc Torana that had a 253 v8, was his first restro of a car



his old 80837 HQ GTS COUPE.

[Vombil]

absolutely mental collection Brad!

I wish i had the room to have a collection like yours at 15. My old lady only let me ever have 2 at once :(

Looks like you've got a bright future in restos

Hurry up and lose the two back doors and drop a canopy on! vans rule hahaha

Welcome

[HQGTSbrad]

haha thanks mate, imight be able to get a hx sandman cause dad knows a bloke that has one out in the weather about 30ks from us i have no idea if hes willing to sell it.

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and another thing, when my dad was 14 he had 3 cars An FJ sedan a Windowless FB van and an FC WAGON
the FB van got trashed because dad left it on the side of the road one day cause it broke down and some idiot come around and smashed every thing on it.

[HQGTSbrad]

Got a bit of history on the van

In 1981 my dad was driving through Singleton and spotted it on the side of the road It was For Sale $5000 In these days my dad had his FC Wagon, He got a bank loan of $5000, the van had only being resprayed about 2 months before in British Racing Green seats were reupholstered in Orange and had original Black door trims with a Eagle sunroof and l88 bonnet scoop, and tripe grills tinted airstrip lights it had gts rims on it but he swapped them for a set of 12 slotters My mum had bought a love heart window which dad put in, by the time the year 84 came dad had swapped it for his 80837 Champagne Gold HQ GTS COUPE which he sold in 1991 for $5000 at the time of the Monaro he was doing the UC torrie with the 253 which got sold in 95 for the ED XR8 Sprint that we still have now.