Quote Originally Posted by Big Rob View Post
Pity they didn't have a "delete badge" code to lose the Belmont badges. It always looked strange to me to see a Belmont badge on a GTS guard.
It was easy to delete a decal on the assembly line, they didn't stick it on.

The old die-cast badges were fastened with pins & clips thru holes in the panel. These holes were punched before assembly & painted, so each model variant had its own front guard or tailgate or whatever.

The fact that the holes were present before assembly made the badges a lot more difficult to 'delete'

An HQ GTS front guard would have had holes pre-punched for the Monaro badge & the GTS badge.

In hindsight, it would have been easier (& perhaps cheaper) to use GTS without holes for both Belmont & Kingswood Sandmans, or even easier just have one Sandman model, which basically what they did for HX & HZ.

Dr Terry