Hi.
When I bought my hq back in 98, I rang Holden customer service, to see if I
could get a verification letter, the guy that I was talking to, said they only do the
verification letter for car's that were related to racing.
He then ask if I had the xx7 on body tag.
I replied yes.
He then ask if it had all the original pop rivets.
I replied yes.
He replied, that is all the verification I need, as there is owners of sandmans that don't
have xx7, but they are genuine sandmans.
I then ask, could you order a hq sandman with a 350 chev engine in it.
He replied, no, as it was not part of the production line up.
I ask, was it possible to special order a sandman with a 350 chev.
He replied, highly unlikely, but not impossible.
What would that possibility be.
Fleet buyer, they would purchase 50 to 100 vans at a time, if they ask for something
special, then Holden would make it, but highly unlikely for the vehicle that am I asking
about. ( a double, highly unlikely, game over.)
This is where the title for my story came from.
The story that I posted is a shorten version of the original, I use the fleet buyer as a
trigger for the van being built.
When I chose the colour, I was not sure if this was right, so when I was looking for the
wheels and tyres in some old Wheels magazines, August 1973 they did a feature on
the panel van craze. One of the things they mention is the colours. " The brighter the
colour, the more easily it will sell". I stayed with that colour. They talked to the sales manger
of Holden dealer Muir's Motors, As far as new vans are concerned, we are selling more 253 v8s
with a four-speed floor shift than anything else. Fifty percent are 253s. About the only option
they don't seem to keen on, is side windows. On another page, Rumors have it that GMH is
examining the practicability of producing a special van or utility for the youth market.
I was not sure about those pos-a-traction tyres only having the white lettering on one side.
So if the rare sandman colours are mainly not so bright colours, that mite be why.
What I would like to now is, how came up with the xx7, as this is coolest option number going.