Grunt's Papaya HX Sandman 18v 308 4 speed Project

[Vombil]

Looking the goods Grunt. Does this trim fella do the proper pressed HX-HZ door trims?

The old fella is after some kinga Q trims too

[Grunt]

Looking the goods Grunt. Does this trim fella do the proper pressed HX-HZ door trims?

The old fella is after some kinga Q trims too

When I got the van the door trims were there but down on one knee so I could compare them with the one from one stop, they are exactly the same with all the factory pressings, they look exactly the same. He even wanted me to take pics of the seat to make sure it was a 2x stiched face or single stitch

[Grunt]

The van arrived with the original dash fascia and a new repo fascia as well. The original had holes hacked in it for switches and a big ass stereo and had some nasty heat buckles so rather than fix it I will use the repo fascia even though it has a molding for the RTS badge.

There was a lot of work to get this ready, between the gauges and where the switch punch outs are located there are dips and grooves that needed filling and sanding







All primed up and nearly ready for the Portland Grey



Still needs the silver outlined sharpened up in spots a little but I have to wait for the paint to dry. Might try to find a RTS badge and replace the wording with the Sandman logo.... who knows.

Overall pretty happy with the result, would have loved to see how they did these in the factory, probably some for of pad painting as the masking takes forever

[Grunt]

I wanted to check the radio and fabricate a speaker plate for the grill on the dash.

They dont make them like they used to, 35+ years and the old radio fired into life..... I didnt even know they had AM stations anymore but I managed to find some



needs a good scrub but its all there

[Grunt]

Just when I thought I could hang up the grinder with the wire brush I had to strip back all the cargo area inspection panels