Quote Originally Posted by Innuendo View Post
The photo is of no proof for HQ. That's what we are talking about. Like everything the panels making up the firewall, cowl and dash etc are spotted into place (hardly a major change in production). I still say the last of the HQ's were just new HJ bodies, you can argue the semantics over the spot welded stuff if you like. They'll are just components to be assembled in the end.
No semantics involved. They are NOT HJ bodies. If they can be called a HJ body because of one little metal pressing on a panel, then you can call HJ-HZ 1-tonner bodies that aren't BO6's HQ bodies, and be just as wrong. Next series stuff being introduced early happened all the time, like RTS suspension geometry mid 1977, many months prior to HZ. Doesn't automatically make it a HZ chassis, that is one amongst many differences.