Quote Originally Posted by Innuendo View Post
All '70's genuine versions are the same. That said; they can be shortened quite easily, tube and rails can be cut at the joins and end caps fitted to the rails. You would never know.
The roof racks are a dealer fitted genuine accessory. They didn't leave the factory production line fitted.
Not 100% correct, they weren't a dealer fitted genuine accessory, they were an aftermarket accessory that was fitted by a number of speed shops in the day. In fact they were much more prevalent on XA and XB wagons and became popular on Holden wagons later. There wasn't one produced particularly for the panel vans and if you google the Mad Max van you can see that the feet are angled steeply to accommodate the curvature of the roof. From memory you could shorten them by cutting the side bars but you couldn't narrow them as the cross bars were run through a mandrel to make them oval and they also had a bow in them. I had a set that I wanted to put on my EH van but the curve of the roof was too great and the centre of the front and rear bars touched the roof. I find it amusing that there has been a set for sale in the last week on one of the Sandman facebook pages and there as well as on oldHolden.com has been a lot of discussion about them.