Quote Originally Posted by robp View Post
Why would you turn SANDMAN van into a Ute? Beyond me!!
It was really common in the mid 90's, a sandman wasn't worth as much as a UTE with all the GTS parts, and typically the panelvan trays were really clean and straight. I knew a guy who did one every few months. Bought a sandman for 2k, did a turret change, sold it as a 'GTS' ute for 7 or 8k.

My poor old girl is a perfect example. The people who did the job had a hot wb ute, smashed it, bought a clean HX sandman, changed the turret, instantly had a clean HX 'gts' like ute.

Now I am returning it back to look like a sandman ute with all the original bits back to stock, and if I find a clean van turret in a few years time I will return back to a van. When I bought mine I got the photo's of it just as they were starting to pull it apart to turn into a ute - I often look at those photo's wishing it was back to those days...

Jim