Custom paint is just $, and was available to special customers. The act of putting a bench seat in a package that came with buckets standard would mean it was no longer that package anymore, so could not be sold as a Sandman. Remember Taily's story about his Grandfather's HJ Kingswood ute, all he wanted was a T-bar HJ ute but it was not possible, so a dealer had to get an L31, M41 HJ Kingswood Sandman ute, change the walkoff front over with another V8 Kingswood of some description (I say V8 by the radiator in the car now), repaint over all the rest of the blackouts and fit accessory side moulds to the doors and quarters. You'd think it would be easier to just make a standard Kingswood ute a T-bar, but it was not possible. Bench in a GTS or Sandman would be exactly the same, ie impossible.
Remember also, HZ commercials past 11/78 except Sandman and Kingswood were only available in 4 x solid colours. So this is a triple special: not one of those 4 x colours, metallic and then a non A632 colour chart colour!
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