Quote Originally Posted by Taily View Post
From what I remember HQ was bench with no headrests, wheels were silver (early to late build) with painted hubcaps/some were fitted with Kingswood hubcaps with more black than chrome), then white wheels (very late HQ - the beginning of the HJ parts inventory) with HJ hubcaps. Clear blinker lenses as you point out on early, orange later.


HJ also had white wheels and the predominantly chrome hubcaps, silver on black "holden" metallic decal on rear chassis light bar/near number plate introduced.


HX-Z as you put it Doc but not sure about left hand mirror. I do know that an interior rear vision mirror was around a 10 buck option, dependant upon which body type was going to be fitted (bread truck etc), so would think an external LH mirror would have been mandatory in that instance.
The base HQ-HZ One-Tonner to my knowledge, always had painted hubcaps, grille, front bar & nose lettering. The HQ/HJ were either white or grey depending on body colour & then in late HJ they went to a silver finish (matt silver paint). As HK1837 has said, the chrome bits & matching hubcaps came as part of the optional XY7 'appearance package'.

HQ front seats without headrests, to my knowledge were only seen in 1971, the headrests (actually head restraints) became mandatory due to ADR22 for 1972 onwards.

The metallic 'HOLDEN' decal on the rear of the chassis was there since day 1. Its part no. was 2823499, which is a 1971 era number. The decal changed to part no. 92009543 for some reason, around late HZ, because it didn't change in appearance.

Dr Terry