HQ Sandman hypothetical poll

[Alien DNA]

At the end of the day its a personal thing, everyone can have and are entitled to their opinion, if you are happy to buy it and restore it and accept it for what it is well do it, if you really have your heart set on a genuine sandman guess you will have to be patient and bide your time for the right one to come along, one thing I have learnt is that something else always comes along just depends if your happy to play the waiting game.

I hear what your saying too hj308..... its cyclic how everything eventually comes around for sale

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The one ive found has orginal interior, a hq chassis...but not its original factory chassis. A date coded motor is fairly easy to find...she just needs body work.......all the panels are there also!

Grab the sandman at the reasonable price and follow it history and start looking for the original chassis or at least a hq chassis therefore it would be registered as a hq

Date code motor would turn up

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True what your saying Robbo.....matching numbered vans are getting harder to find...but finding the rarest of the Sandmans with matching numbers is even harder.

Well said [MENTION=204]Alien DNA[/MENTION], number's and purist's have there place. Otherwise we would have no production example's of anything. Way back when I was in my twenties, and we were buying these vehicles new, no one was concerned about motor's, gearboxes or diff's, believe me on this. Motors were being heavily modified or turfed, and the same with the rest of the driveline. Then the next bit was the interior and body work, ute's were, to a lesser extent, the same. Many HQ's were ordered with a V8 and 4 speed, well before Sandman came along. So to find any Sandman is an historic moment, I would not be deterred by it not being matching number's in any way. To find one with anything matching is comparable to winning the lottery.

Cheers.