Quote Originally Posted by mauser View Post
Another couple of things I thought of. (we are only guessing the date by the picture's name)

1) How did they get the colour match so perfect in painting the front end afterwards. Even faded old 40 year old paint has aged the same when painted in different plants, days etc. I have been told its better to paint the entire car on the same day, in the same conditions. Maybe its the paint they used then. Well done to the Holden QA dudes in this case especially with the Met. Sandy colours.

2) I would of thought the Sandman blackouts and stickers would of been applied after the assembly with the front end in this case. I guess the HZ's would of only needed a squrt on the front guards as the nose spoiler is body colour. With the stickers in HX/Z's being applied in the factory, I could of imagined that was nearly last task especially to line them up. (those ones cant be HQ/J as they were in the box on the front seat). I have a picture of the HQ blackouts done prior to the front guards on HQ SS's but Byron has said this was only at some plants. Is there any evidence of the blackouts done prior on Syd/Mel HQ/J PV Sandman's (think SYD made Ute bodies) when the bodies were shipped to them like this? (or are we just guessing based on their coupe/sedan GTS's production) I can get that the blackouts could be done earlier on a Adl/Bne Sandman because the entire vehicle was made there and possibly the front end painted along with the body and passed to the next plant together to be assembled.

Mauser
I named the files like this but the collections they are from state those dates on them.
Going by the pictures with these the person walked around the yard taking pictures of what was there on the day.

At least with the Mosman Park cars I have been told the top coat paint came with the cars in large pails and was then painted on to the panels
separately here.
I have pictures of the last cars from the Mosman Park plant (which unfortunately I am not allowed to publish anywhere at this time.)
These cars are both Lettuce Alone HQ SS's and the sill black outs are painted on the body's already and the guards that have been fitted at
Mosman Park do not have the black outs on them yet.
They also do not have the decals on them yet either I was told that they were fitted as basically the last thing.
So It looks like there is some use in these pictures, now I just have to keep searching for the HQ ones that I want.
Here are a couple of older pictures of bodies on the train here in WA.
Cars in wa C 1958.jpgCars in wa Mar5_1963.jpgCars in wa Mar5_1963 crop.jpg
None of these pictures are mine so if the owner wants them removed let me know and I will remove them.
Cheers Paul.
Cheers Paul.