Dealer Built Sandman????

[Big Rob]

Back in the day, nobody cared if their van (or ute) was a Sandman or not. The dealers building upgraded ones just pulled stuff from the spare parts dept and made Statesman and GTS vans and utes to pull the customers in.

As long as a van had a Statesman front or GTS guards, bucket seats and mag wheels it was a guaranteed quick sale.

Some of the top custom vans weren't Sandmans because the builder would chuck so much of the van away it didn't make sense to pay for stuff you weren't going to use.... sound systems replaced standard radios on day one and standard wheels were replaced by mags the same day.
A lot of dealers woke up to this and fitted stuff so they would increase their profits.

[Innuendo]

Back in the day, nobody cared if their van (or ute) was a Sandman or not.

True fact! Truth is most didn't want it to be a Sandman at all. Sandman options were fine, but nothing that declared it a Sandman. Thus the DL7 Delete Stripes option come the HX/HZ.

[wbute]

True fact! Truth is most didn't want it to be a Sandman at all. Sandman options were fine, but nothing that declared it a Sandman. Thus the DL7 Delete Stripes option come the HX/HZ.

They dropped it completely by WB. 6 years till people got sick of it.