Quote Originally Posted by Innuendo View Post
It's a stunning looking Ute. Presents nicely. Yeah it it has some repro bits, they can be corrected over time.
253 is a big no-no! The price reflects "car yard" asking. I reckon if you keen on Sandman Ute's and the colour does it for you it would be negotiating on for sure.

Real price? Maybe $27 to $32K But if they take a trade in well that helps and might just get someone over the line.

It has a lot going for it.
I'm with you on that, but I am biased as it is almost a dead ringer for mine.

Quote Originally Posted by Gunna Do View Post
Where is the XX7 stamping?
Won't have it as it isn't a Brisneyland build.

Quote Originally Posted by Absinth View Post
Sydney built 308 M21 XX7 HJ Kingswood ute in Absinth Yellow, a shame they left the 253 in it.... Seems a lot of cash for what seems to me to be an average, not overly correct restoration.

doesnt take a lot of skill to buy a heap of reproduction parts and stick them on a freshly painted ute. I don't see the money in it considering how much is incorrect with it.

http://www.seven82motors.com.au/car/.../#.Utn4i4xXeSN

Looking at it objectively it raised a couple of questions to me: I wasn't aware there was a difference in how the Model number on HJ Kingswood utes was displayed between plants (though I knew about the Sydney body plates not being painted). My (Melbourne) body plate reads the model as: HJ8WN80 rather than the way this one reads (8WN80JR), so I guess I've learned something else new, but what is the "JR" bit (obviously H"J", but what is the "R" after it?)



I get the interior changes like air-cond dash pad on a forced-air dash, replacement fascia/idiot lights and console/insert and a few other things like wrong decals etc (hey it would be great if all of these things were as easy to get as they were 30 years ago) but where are the big ticket Kingswood items such as the stainless trims around and behind the doors?

Probably looks like I'm being too picky, but I'm not trying to be as I do really like what they've done with it and especially if it was done for the reasons they listed. I do know they documented the build very well so there would be no surprises in it.