HQ Sandy Christman present

[Wally]

Ok, so without starting the great debate (again) as I know there has been a few on here, is a re-shell transferring all parts that make it a sandman including chassis and tags mount, strips etc with a Dandenong body making it any less a sandman. What percentage of transferable metal has to go with it before you consider it legit? Should this be done or do we let these cars just keep getting toasted and return back to the soil? There must be hundreds of restored cars that only have a poofteenth of the original metal in them but that does not stop people spending thousands and being any less desirable. What are your thoughts?

This might help - I am a carpenter and so was my dad and I have in my possession a 650 year old hammer that has handed down through the family for all those years as a family heirloom. Here's the thing - it has had 45 new heads and 238 new handles but is 650 years old . We have really kept it in good condition!!! You were saying?

[Absinth]

This might help - I am a carpenter and so was my dad and I have in my possession a 650 year old hammer that has handed down through the family for all those years as a family heirloom. Here's the thing - it has had 45 new heads and 238 new handles but is 650 years old . We have really kept it in good condition!!! You were saying?

This is a very poor example for an argument against..... In this case a car would have to have had a body and engine swap... And then later had a chassis swap..... In which case it is no longer an original Sandman.....

the ID of a car is in the tags and chassis.

i sold my HX Monaro before restoring it as the front chassis rail with the chassis number had been replaced with a HQ one after an accident. I considered it to have lost it's identity and not worth the money to restore it as it would never be accepted as an original Monaro. Other have a different opinion on this also.