Originally Posted by Innuendo
I just went & checked some dashes and separate speedos & tachos, and in 40 years of owning/driving HQs, I had never noticed the different needle. Must've been too distracted holding on at 150!It’s all irrelevant anyway. A HQ would have wallowed off the road before it hit 150 anyway.
B.T.W, I found 140 MPH and combined 140MPH/220kph speedos, but no 220kph only speedos. Are the kph only less common?
cheers
Max
I didn't even know they existed and still not sure if they are factory?
Same goes for the 200kph only versions.
Selling HJ 253 Engine
Engine Number QR718*** | 19M5 Clock Casting at 6 O'Clock
19th December 1975 Suit HJ Late Dec 1975 to April 1976
There is an extensive speedo thread here somewhere...
http://www.mysandman.com.au/forums/s...ghlight=speedo
There were lots of sticker sets around to change your speedo.
lcuglyspeedo.jpg
I think they worked out in HQ it went some thing like this.
Normal speedo 120mph. Optioned U61 still only had std speedo. HQ SS has standard speedo. HQ GTS 2-door had 140mph with Tacho needle.
Around the 72/73 change they went mph/kph. HQ 2&4-door GTS got 140/220 speedos.
somewhere in 74 kph only. Sandman had the same as the HQ GTS4 with the 220kph.
hq74gts2.jpg
original hq sandman ute.
hqsandmanute15.jpg
Last edited by mauser; 11-02-2018 at 05:12 PM.
“485650 HQ's cant be wrong...”
“You don’t drive a Kingswood, you make love to it. That’s why nuns only drive Toranas.” - Ted Bullpitt
220kph only speedos don't exist in HQ speedos.
200kph only speedos in HQ do exist and are definitely a factory speedo however not as Inners posted, they never came with the GTS needle only the standard style needle. They were available throughout the HQ series but were mostly export vehicles, whether they were fitted near the end of HQ production in Aussie cars I do not know but it is likely as HJ were kph only.
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yep, you are right. I forgot about that one. Byron did tell me that.
Mauser
“485650 HQ's cant be wrong...”
“You don’t drive a Kingswood, you make love to it. That’s why nuns only drive Toranas.” - Ted Bullpitt
There is also an Orchid van advertised on The Sandman Facebook page.
Mine had the 200km speedo, console with the hole for the back half, Belmont style door trims, GTS seats with the 6 pleats running vertically. All looked like they had been there a while and could have been factory. But who knows.
Wish I’d taken more photos of it when I got it back in the day....
Its the same one
I'm going to run with the theory that HQ Sandman's "should" by definition have a 220kph GTS speedo but "not all" left the factory that way.
BTW, I have now spotted 2x speedo's that have the 220kph (tacho style needle) but 200kph speedo's with KPH only on the dial. Original? Repro? Sticker?
Selling HJ 253 Engine
Engine Number QR718*** | 19M5 Clock Casting at 6 O'Clock
19th December 1975 Suit HJ Late Dec 1975 to April 1976
Thanks mauser,
I have read and linked back to that thread earlier. The decal I'm also aware of (I used to sell them) in my shop.
It really hasn't cleared things up.
Here is the 200KPH only speedo that has the tacho needle and it the second one I have in my image library.
hq_sandman_200kph.jpg
Last edited by Innuendo; 11-02-2018 at 09:05 PM.
Selling HJ 253 Engine
Engine Number QR718*** | 19M5 Clock Casting at 6 O'Clock
19th December 1975 Suit HJ Late Dec 1975 to April 1976
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