Thanks for that, mine's a ute but 90% of restoring vans and utes are the same. If that doesn't incite comment, nothing will!
I hope to document my rebuild with photos and a blog. My ute came pretty much as a rolling shell with doors. The front guards, inner guards, 2 tailgates, 2 nosecones, radiator support panel, gearbox without a bellhousing and a non-original engine were all in the back. The seats and a damaged console along with a cracked dash pad were inside, no instruments or GTS steering wheel. Luckily I have a lot of parts collected over the last few years, including the instruments pictured above which came in a factory 253/3spd Jasmine Yellow HZ which I bought for the 350/th400 that was in it. I had plans to build it into a mock up HJ Sandman, basically because it has a perfect single headlight front panel and radiator support and I happen to prefer the single headlight over the twin. When the genuine article came up on e-bay I figured why do all that work on a mock up when I can do the same amount of work and have the real thing