HX Absinth XX7 tagged ute in Tassy, rego AD 470

**AN5590** · 05-07-2010, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by adam perth

whats wrong with it?

Clips are wrong - these look like cast metal screw in clips, but should be black plastic clips with 3 push in plastic pins - like these ones:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Holden-NOS-UT...item255ba0e4d7

**wbute** · 05-07-2010, 11:48 AM

Not meant to have elastic rope. The way the rope goes through the cover is wrong. You shouldnt be able to see those loop things the rope goes through.
Plus they are the wrong hooks so it must have had a respray and had the wrong hooks put on it. Would love to see the tags.

**ozbox** · 05-07-2010, 12:35 PM

any more pics adam....???...nice lookin for the 2 pics....

come on guys you are startin to sound like people on another forum that pic at peoples cars....:cry:...we dont want that happening here...;)

....for the dollars and if its an xx7 with delivery papers and matching numbers its priced right...if it was a windowless panno it would have been sold by now....even with some faults..

**AN5590** · 05-07-2010, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by ozbox

come on guys you are startin to sound like people on another forum that pic at peoples cars....:cry:...we dont want that happening here...;)

Wasn't meaning to be picky. Agree very nice ute, bought my ute in Tas 25+ years ago - wish it looked that good!

**ozbox** · 05-07-2010, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by AN5590

Wasn't meaning to be picky. Agree very nice ute, bought my ute in Tas 25+ years ago - wish it looked that good!

my reply was also a bit tongue in cheek....

**wbute** · 05-07-2010, 05:00 PM

Fair enough.

**Absinth** · 05-07-2010, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by wbute

Not meant to have elastic rope.

You sure about that WB???

Factory tonneau covers had eyelets.... laccy rope threaded through the eyelet down to the clip and back up through the next eyelet.

The tonneau and clips pictured on the ute above are aftermarket..... have seen quite a few Tassie utes with that same style tonneau but with factory clips.

I have a factory tonneau from a mates old HX Sandman under the house, had it for many years..... At least I think I've still got it....

**wbute** · 05-07-2010, 08:41 PM

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** · 05-07-2010, 08:57 PM

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

**adam perth** · 05-07-2010, 10:30 PM

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???????????