I also met Rockvan, who came and introduced himself, he bought a cap, and a couple from Dubbo who have restored a HX absinth yellow sandman, and they have a ute, they will probably join the forum, and will be bringing it next year, they also stayed at our motel...to add to that there was an older guy who had a red HZ, (sorry Byron am kicking myself for not getting the plates for you) he bought as a tradie, and although has had a respray, is completely original, only thing different was he had DL7 and put on some kingswood strips...very nice tidy van too...two guys came over to Rodney as he previously said and said "you are rodney and that is your Sandman" so obviously been looking at mysandman.com.au as a visitor...they are joining up shortly..and one does have a sandman he is restoring, but also driving...the Sandman community is rapidly growing...and there was loads of interest in our vans....especially looking in the back of them, they loved Agro's 70's theme and I heard a lot of comments about the disco mirror ball....the fact that a Panel van (it was a sandman but very customized) won the best car of the day, is reassures us that Panel vans will live on forever. Next year we will arrange our vans in a better position, maybe park 45degrees so all can be seen from the walkway...but as we had no idea how many would be parking, it was hard to organise, I have sent an email to the organisers to make sure we are allocated a position, and the map is given to all the SES volunteers so they know where to direct us to, (which we were but had our flag had been moved) so we can get all the vans together, as a few were scattered about in other areas....anyway we had a fantasic time, met loads of people, and had two great nights out together, a special thanks to Gaddy and Annie who organised the Hogs breath dinner out, which was child friendly and a great meal...only Ozbox is not allowed to have spicy nashos ever again...ask him about that one....

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Great pics everyone. Thanks for a great weekend and kind words. Rod and Jen thank you for a great cruise home.
Hi Damo,
I was going to ask Ed today what your surname was so I could contact you and ask for a pic of your van with the trophy...it certainly needs to be put up on the forum..it is a great effort...if you are unable to do pics I will upload for you..I will PM my email address....
cheers J