Vombil, that could be said for most sandmans that they could be easy to fake if this is the case! Should we discard every other ute or van that is not xx7 and say the doubt factor is too great! In saying that, I wish though that every other plant had come out with something along the lines of the xx7 on the tags to eliminate the doubt but how many are running around with those tags that started life as something else!? So surly there cant be too many fakes in hq Sandmans as you only have such a short tag life that they were produced with and the demand for them has not been around for years like your Monaro, Xu1, A9X etc etc.