HQ SANDMAN UTE survivor

**ozbox** · 24-05-2012, 03:31 PM

first time customer comes in today to buy some parts for his sandman ute...got talking and he went home and bought it down for me to document..has to be the most original unmolested one ive seen..he is doing a partial resto on it and was happy for me to take as many pics as i wanted and share here for future referance...146k original with the original purchase papers..bought from hawkesbury holden and lived in sydney till 1995 and then went with its owner to coonamble and was purchased by the current owner a year ago.

**jennie285** · 24-05-2012, 03:44 PM

What a beauty, and the upholstery is great too for its age...even has the short tail centre caps....

**hj308** · 24-05-2012, 03:45 PM

Great survivor and great score, unusual colour wil be good to see it restored to its former glory

**Robbo** · 24-05-2012, 05:05 PM

Wow, a real live genuine survivor, and a ute also. Certainly seem's as though it has been used and not abused, a credit to it's former and current owner's. They are still out there.

**mauser** · 24-05-2012, 05:24 PM

Well done Oz for finding that and sharing.....

Brilliant example with a 39B interiour. Large hole console, 220kph speedo and interestingly the black handbrake like mine has. No armrests on the Kingswood trims and courtesy light switches in the doors.

Alloy scuff plates on a Kingswood... I thought those were chrome on the Kingy and only Alloy on the Belmont.

Mauser

**ozbox** · 24-05-2012, 05:50 PM

mauser,it does have the holes in the door trims for the armrests but they werent on it when he got it.

**mauser** · 24-05-2012, 09:38 PM

re: Armrests

I'm sure classic Oz will be rustling up an imaculate pair of those for the old girl. :-)

Mauser

**Q set** · 24-05-2012, 09:56 PM

Mmmm interesting to take a good look over a survivor and a Q at that? Have I been wrong all along thinking that Q sandies were Belmont based and badged as such?..

I guess if in the day you were buying your V8 work ute, why not order up the Sandman, get the carpets deleted for vinyl mats and you get the BIG GTS dash. (yeah, the standard old Q dash doesn't have alot going on. I mean, the fuel guage really doesn't have to be the same size as the speedo. )
Nice set of pics OZ, ta.