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.