Sandman and sub cultures

[wbute]

Vans were all but dead in central west NSW in the 90's. There was one at Ag college (blue sandman). There was another I remember at Hawkesbury B&S with fat van plates doing circle work. Thats about it though for vans.
Utes were the thing. They were every where. Bullbars, bull lights, stickers and aerials. Heaps of Subaru Brumbies, XF Falcons, HQ-HZ Holdens. But king was WB Kingswood. All the rest were povo utes. How times change hey. Now WB Kingswoods are the poor cousin (to some anyway).
There was one other van around here actually, brown HX with a Tooheys sticker across the tailgate. It was fairly legendary around here. As a mater of fact, its the only van I have ever travelled in. It sucked more dust in than any other car I have ever been in. Dust just sort of hung in the air lol.
Hang on, Sandaros HJ Sandman Van was another, all the way back in high school and still going strong!

[thatotherguy]

my first job was collecting money for newspapers in 1976 and one of my customers was a GMH executive and he always bought new cars home, he had statesmans ,monaros etc i also went to elizabeth high school and at lunch time we would hang out at united motors (now peter page) and collect brochures for all the current models including sandmans and LE monaro . i had 2 customers with sandmans and they were my favorite cars so i started buying custom vans and truck magazine and just got hooked .I bought my first sandman in 1982 it was a HX deville blue 308 4 speed and was used to tow a ski boat and sleep in . I owned it for 15 years and sold it in 1997 because it only had 2 seats and there were three of us by then.