HJ sandman ute restoration

**Sandaro** · 19-12-2018, 10:42 PM

A per your post#77, I think your wife is right!!

**Valencia** · 19-12-2018, 11:03 PM

Keep going Fred do it once do it right
love your work

**pj350** · 19-12-2018, 11:18 PM

What a brilliant custodian of such a vehicle ...
Hats off to you mate.
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**wbute** · 20-12-2018, 04:00 AM

Not to be too pedantic, but it’s a Ute. Styleside isn’t correct. Ute, van and one tonner.

**pj350** · 20-12-2018, 04:17 AM

Originally Posted by wbute

Not to be too pedantic, but it’s a Ute. Styleside isn’t correct. Ute, van and one tonner.

Don't know what you are meaning wb ute.

**Innuendo** · 20-12-2018, 04:56 AM

Originally Posted by HJsandman75

Hi all, it’s been a few months since the last update so I thought I would write a bit more and post some photos. I have been struggling to find information and detail on exact restoration and production picking slip or broadcast sheet numbers? The underneath is all done now, with rear axle back in.
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According to chat sites and what information I found, the front shock absorbers were black from factory and the rears on a style side ute were woodsman green. From what i have read the picking slip number was LF

Genuine lowering blocks?

Seriously but, that is some nice progress. Well done!

Originally Posted by wbute

Not to be too pedantic, but it’s a Ute. Styleside isn’t correct. Ute, van and one tonner.

Originally Posted by pj350

Don't know what you are meaning wb ute.

Australia never called them Styleside. We (Some Aussies) have been Yankafied.

**pj350** · 20-12-2018, 08:59 AM

Yes Styleside what the f... is a Styleside ..
For me it's a ute.

**Dr Terry** · 20-12-2018, 10:28 AM

Styleside was a term used for F-100 & GM type pick-ups in the US where the removable tray had a matching 'style' to the doors & front guards.

A proper ute doesn't have a removable tray so how can it be called a 'Styleside'. This is a Americanism. In Australia it is called a Ute !

I had a customer phone me the other day & he wanted to purchase a new fuel pump for his Nissan 350 "ZEE", after a few seconds I realised that he meant 350Z, but I still had to ask him what the hell he was talking about.

Dr Terry

**wbute** · 20-12-2018, 01:30 PM

Long and short box/bed pickup truck. As Terry said, a ute is all one piece from A pillar to taillight. Technically you could call those late model Ford Falcon commercials a styleside.
I don’t understand how this has come into our language in the last 5 years. Before that no one called a Holden one tonner a ute! They were always a “tonner”, short for one tonner. A ute was a ute and a van a van.
Probably just blame the internet for proliferation of mistakes I guess.

**Valencia** · 20-12-2018, 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by wbute

Long and short box/bed pickup truck. As Terry said, a ute is all one piece from A pillar to taillight. Technically you could call those late model Ford Falcon commercials a styleside.
I don’t understand how this has come into our language in the last 5 years. Before that no one called a Holden one tonner a ute! They were always a “tonner”, short for one tonner. A ute was a ute and a van a van.
Probably just blame the internet for proliferation of mistakes I guess.

Its the same with certain people calling station wagons ( Longroofs its the youth of today) next time i hear a wagon called that im gunna slap them in the face with a chair
mark my words