Hi Byron,
thanks for your reply. Is there any other way of confirming it is a sandman? Reading other blogs, mine has all the correct equipment fitted (wheels, gts dash, guards, centre console mounts). It has been repainted at some stage in claret colour. Stripping the car back to bare metal, all the correct black paint outs were where they should be and the original manadrin red paint was evident. I believe the sydney cars stamped the body number into the frewall? the number on the firewall, chassis rail and plates all match up.