If it hasn't got XX7 on the BODY plate after the model code it isn't. It can't be console shift originally unless it is a Sandman.

2200kg isn't a reduced GVW, that is a normal V9 HJ commercial GVW which all Sandmans were until passenger tyres became optional late in 1975.

See if you can get the chassis number off the ADR plate, should be BHJ12xxxB, probably in the 100's or 200's for the xxx.

Still a pretty cool ute, a V8 HJ Kingswood ute in Deauville Blue with slate black trim.