HX Absinth XX7 tagged ute in Tassy, rego AD 470

[wbute]

Yeah they had a rope which at a guess was sash cord or similar. No elastic. There was no colour band around the edge and the rope was threaded through eyelets in the seam of the cover. They had a pattern on the underside of the material(bit like the David jones pattern).
Mine still has the original on it. I put the elastic rope in it and had some re-stitching done on it.
Those hooks look like something you would use to tie an awning down on a verandah.
Maybe I am being pedantic, but if you are going to say it is one of the best Sandman utes in Australia then things like that have to be right(hooks I mean).

[kaido17]

i noticed it has a chev sticker on the back adam is it still running the original 5 litre?

[adam perth]

ute has 264,000 km on it, with rebuilt original motor, no chev.
Second best sandy ute in australia?, probably not now i think about it, Paddy's white HZ would be pushing for that too.

i have had numerous utes in Tas, and they all had that type of tarp, and they had a habit of shrinking over the years too.
these had the David jones pattern on the inside, but around the outside where you can see in the pics they were white like in photo

Did all holdens across australia get the same tarp and hooks?

can you still get the Genuine tarp / hooks?

i agree with OZbox, don't be too critical on every sandman as far as matching numbers, it takes the fun out of it. And some owners just don't care for matching numbers and just want to go faster, e.g chev, 9" diff etc. isn't that what being a rev - head is all about???????????