My Oldman’s HZ Sandman panel van

**Innuendo** · 08-12-2013, 10:14 PM

Neat history, thanks for sharing your story. Pity the original number plates have been replaced.
What was the story with them being replaced? Tell the old man stripes are back in and protector strips never were in!

**Barbs77** · 08-12-2013, 10:38 PM

Thanks for all the welcomes and kind words

Originally Posted by Blocker

Welcome and thanks for sharing!

If this isn't the best 'first' post by a member I don't know what is, thanks heaps for taking the time to upload you photos and tell us your story.

I didn't plan this but I just started typing and thought I might as well do it proper and this sight is really user friendly, it was so easy to add photos

Originally Posted by playwme

Awesome story and 900k is pretty amazing too. How many engine rebuilds has it had over that time?

PS. <--- Flamenco and 18v too.

Very cool van and from what I know the engine has been done twice.

Originally Posted by jennie285

Hello barbs77 we have met you at a couple of AHD's we have the yellow sandman, And came with the sandman ute this year as well. Good to have you on board at mysandman

Yes I remember you and Rodney! Your Yellow van is awesome and the first restored one I remember seeing, its really cool to see them back to their former glory.
Your story is a great one as well.

Originally Posted by hqhzvans

Think I saw this van last week driving through Shire area?

Yes we're from the area you'll often see him going down the Princess Hwy, Alfords pt rd, captain cook bridge, Tom Ugly's etc

**Barbs77** · 08-12-2013, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Innuendo

Neat history, thanks for sharing your story. Pity the original number plates have been replaced.
What was the story with them being replaced? Tell the old man stripes are back in and protector strips never were in!

lol, everyone tells him he's got to get the stripes back on, but he dosn't mind the protector stripes he says they have saved the body from a lot of little dings.

Yes it is a pity about the original number plates, he only replaced them because one fell off while he was driving in the early 80s

**dm6666** · 11-12-2013, 11:38 AM

What a great van and great story. I have a Flamenco Red HZ V8 manual van also that I am going to start restoring. There aren't enough left anymore, make sure he never parts with it!