I believe the only things he specified were the colour and the 308 manual. I'm pretty confident no other factory options. He had to wait 6 weeks for it to be built. I don't recall it ever being known to him where the sandman decals were fitted- (the dealer probably asked when completing the order whether he wanted them) when it came out of the dealer to him they where on. Yes the bump strips were added later.
The dwell wiper is a story in itself, that's why it sticks out to me. Normally its an optional extra on HJ. Dad's story is the dealer on delivery wanted to charge the dwell wiper as an optional extra at extra cost. Got into an argument with them, Dad wasn't paying extra than quoted they threatened to re order van and he'd have to wait again for a new one without dwell. He said I'll wait, eventually they saw sense that he hadn't ticked the box and completed the deliver/sale.
Then i remember years ago Byron mentioned an anomaly of dwell wipers being fitted in conjunction with 308 4 speed when optioned on HJ's (not sure if this was sandman only or across the board). So that explained Dad's story after 40 odd years





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