Hj sandman

[HK1837]

Early HJ's optioned with U17 instruments had the sliver fascia, it was the only fascia available. Even Premier and LS got the silver fascia despite the rest being woodgrain. It wasn't until later HJ (possibly even until 1976) that the black fascia for Belmont/Holden and Kingswood plus the woodgrain one for Premier and LS were fitted. My HJ Premier has a factory fitted U17 dash with silver fascia, it is 12/74.

HX have white needles, HZ and WB are yellow.

[garry fielding]

HK you are truly incredible , how on earth , did you come up with so much information , yes it was exactly how you describe , but if it is stamped xx7 , your web sight says it came from Accacia Hills but you are saying Sydney how tis that , not that it matter s I trily thank you , you have given me a lot of information , like I said I worked on them but never under stood all the plate codes , and I guess at the time wasn't interested , but now , wow I sure am , thanks again Garry .

[Gunna Do]

Thanks HK ,Great info as usual.

[garry fielding]

Thank you HK , I bow too your knowledge , I always thought the only earlier silver facias were the fish scale ones . I indeed stand corrected .

[HK1837]

All assembly plants made XX7's and XU3's but only Acacia Ridge stamped the special vehicle package codes.

I think you'll find there were no silver HQ fishscale either, it was just the coating deteriorated quickly.

[Robbo]

Welcome to the site Garry. Great to have another original owner on here,
Cheers, Rob.

[Blocker]

The paperwork says XX7 but there wouldnt be an XX7 stamp on the plates though.

[Damien's]

Hi every one my father inlaw has a hj sandman ute and he has a couple of questions first is it possible to determine what number it came off the production line ie: number 10 or 100 and secondly the vin number says its made in 1975 but build date says 10/74 was that a common thing with holden at the time

[HK1837]

I can tell you approx where it is in the PSN sequence for the assembly plant it came from, but they were made at 4 x assembly plants. Plus they weren't built in the order they were entered into the schedule, so the 50th PSN may be the 15th completed for example.

10/74 is a 1975 model year car to GMH. The next year model started on 1st September.

[Damien's]

Thank u HK he has been talking about selling it later in the year i will get some numbers for u to look at just to verify if it is genuine and if it is wat would b the going price for it i will b sad to see it leave the family but im not in a position to buy it off him