HJ Sandman Questions

[Absinth]

The blue HJ above - the bumper has a rubber nudge strip on it?? Is this original on HJ's?
thanks wayne

The rubber bumper strip was available as an optional extra. It was standard on Statesman Caprice and later standard on HX Monaro and HZ GTS.

I've got a 5/75 HJ Sandman in Deauville Blue but i've got a few questions i wish to ask if i may:

a) Did they change from the Black (or white) stripes to the coloured stripes exactly on the change-over to HX or did some late HJ's have the coloured stripes?

b) What was the more popular stripe on the Blue HJ, White or Black?

c) Were the Black windscreen moulds (and painted sills etc) on any HJ's or where the for HX onwards only?

Thanks in advance
Craig

The coloured stripes were introduced on the HX Sandman. I have the July 77 dated HJ Parts Catalogue and no DX decals are listed.

Hard to say which were more popular, I have seen them with both black and white decals and both look good..... it's more a personal choice.

All model Sandman's had the lower sills, lower guards, lower nose panel (except HZ), lower rear quarters and rear beaver panel blacked out.
Blacked out windscreen surround, black sports mirrors, blacked out door handles, blacked out door window frames and blacked out around the rear tailgate window were introduced on the HX Sandman.

Colour coded sports mirrors and front spoiler were introduced on HZ Sandman.

There are pictures of HX Sandman's with colour coded mirrors and HZ Sandman's with black mirrors but these appear to be anomalies.