Best and worst moments in your Sandman resto?

**Shadowmax** · 22-06-2010, 07:51 PM

Best moment was not needing a resto just having a car I've been able to get a decade of fun out of without having it off the road !!!

**jennie285** · 22-06-2010, 08:31 PM

If only......Hynsight is a wonderful thing....so could we have if we had done what we thought we may have to do when our sandman didn't sell in 86...we would have pulled the cover off....took her off the blocks, and just driven her out of the farm shed......good for you to have one for 10 years and be enjoying her.....

**Shadowmax** · 22-06-2010, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by jennie285

good for you to have one for 10 years and be enjoying her.....

I have been through full rebuilds though and know the highs and lows that go with them ... it is all worth it in the end!

**ozbox** · 24-06-2010, 08:11 PM

after 10 years of collecting the parts to start the resto of my hq sandman van i fluke across the last bit needed...the correct date coded and prefixed motor....

and as an added bonus the guy i bought the hx sandman off that the motor for the hq was in sent me the receipts for the rebuild of the motor and unlike so many people these days he wasnt lieing about the rebuild...$3700 worth and its does sound fine..

bought an hq premier which is not screwed with to rape for all the correct bolts n bits so we are away and running in the next couple of weeks..

**wbute** · 24-06-2010, 08:29 PM

I am looking forward to seeing the progress!

**Absinth** · 24-06-2010, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by wbute

I am looking forward to seeing the progress!

Me too

**Sinbin** · 24-06-2010, 10:20 PM

my worst moment was on the recent sandman run where we were driving up a hill going to the lighthouse and i flicked off gas onto petrol and the car conked it and started going backwards down the hill and my sterring locked up , was quite eventfull , i was just luckly no one else was close behiend me