Aztec trim

**mckackie** · 07-02-2012, 11:20 PM

Actually Guru, I was chatting with another old holden tragic the other day, and he pointed out to me the fact that GM-H had that archives fire a few years back, so therefore anything that the authenticators can tell you would be fairly standard fare. They did lose alot of information, apparently. The trim, he did say was at one stage, fairly common, in up to four different colour schemes. I tend to find I get alot of old Cronulla locals looking around the van when I take it out, and (must be one of those reverse polaritied pussy magnets) I seem to get 40-55yo blokes telling me how they had a X or Z van with the trim, or had a mate with one with the trim, even old mechanics and tin bashers saying they can recall it.I can confirm a red variation, and have heard about green and purple as well. Might have been a limited factory option perhaps, and I ponder just how many nice vans had the seats ripped out to replace them with Ricaro or statesman seats or other wank factoring, or were just written off or scrapped, that may have had examples of this trim. Food for thought, anyway.

**mckackie** · 02-10-2012, 12:18 PM

And the investigation has a small break-through.....I was introduced to a gentleman last night who is a muscle car tragic as well, and when I showed pics of the trim to him, he said he could remember having a TE celica with the exact same trim insert.(WTF!!?) Therefor e my next move might be to chase it up with toyota Australia and see if they can remember anything or know where to get it from or manufactured. Hmmmmmm......

**HK1837** · 02-10-2012, 03:19 PM

It won't be a factory insert or it'd be in the colour and trim chart books. If these were new cars fitted with it, it will be a dealer done thing. If it was factory it'd have a special TRIM line which I bet none of the cars with it have. I do have the HX and HZ trim samples books here at the moment and if you put up a photo of the pattern i'll compare it to what is in them.

**HK1837** · 02-10-2012, 03:52 PM

That is definitely not factory fitted Holden trim in my experience. You could get a few obscure cloth inserts that many won't have seen before, but as far as I know you could not option them on a HJ-HZ Holden or Belmont, only Kingswood and up.

**mckackie** · 06-10-2012, 10:33 PM

check the link at the top of the thread to get a look at the trim in blue in my first post. If you see the driver's seat trim, use the toggle at the top right to scroll through the pics of the van I put up earlier. there is a good pic of the blue trim there.

**Innuendo** · 06-10-2012, 11:17 PM

Like I said. The fabric was sold through Daleys Auto Marine and Upholstery Supplies Pty Ltd in Sydney.

**mckackie** · 28-04-2019, 02:41 PM

Breakthrough! A good friend did some digging around, and found the original Aztec trim was used in an AMC pacer as a DL trim option, and now I have found a company in Oregon, USA who can supply it.....in blue, red or grey. (http://www.mjcclassiccars.com/1976-AMC-Pacer-D-L.shtml#) example on this link. For anyone interested....smsautotrim.com also has many of the trims available from all other old holden models, and many other brands.

**Sandaro** · 28-04-2019, 10:38 PM

Welcome back Mckackie, glad you found the site again. Did you open a thread on here originally showing pictures of you sandman. I had a quick look and couldn't see one. Is it still running and registered?

**mckackie** · 05-06-2019, 04:56 PM

yes, still running and registered.....still digging around for bits n pieces before I do the resto, as I will be hitting hard like a paid customer job and not doing it over ten years every third sunday etc. The fact the front page of teh website is off line didn't help me trying to get in here, the same friend showed me the trick!