eBay - Melbourne HX Papaya L20 M20 GV7

[Valencia]

Good parts car whats left

[pj350]

Garden ornament

[wbute]

What a heap of crap. Let’s be honest, straight to the smelter. The only Sandman bits left are the door handles and tags. The rest is rusted out.
Everyone wrecked vans to build something more valuable in the 90’s.

[Kingcoffee]

Not uncommon for bodies to be built Adelaide and shipped to say Sydney or Melbourne to be assembled and joined to chassis, thus plates from the 2 plants

Then why do we all want matching number vehicles

[pj350]

[QUOTE=Kingcoffee;114092]Then why do we all want matching number vehicles[/QUOTE


my van body was made in adelaide the body then shipped to Melbourne for assembly ...you just have to know what they did back in the day.

[Alien DNA]

Garden ornament

Thats exactly what i said to the guy....."heres 500 and ill throw a dodgy coat of papya on it and landscape around it".....unfortunate reality, thats the next stage of that vehicles life.

[Sandaro]

Then why do we all want matching number vehicles

Even though it could have been made chassis and body in different plants the numbers will all match in holden records. I'm not saying this one matches, I'm just saying it could, or you might be right it doesn't, but you'd need to get a HHS certificate to confirm either way

[wbute]

Then why do we all want matching number vehicles

This link explains it sort of.

http://www.mysandman.com.au/forums/s...=Holden+plants

[Kingcoffee]

So really any van could be rebodied and still say it’s a genuine sandman ? How do you prove it either way ?

[Innuendo]

So really any van could be rebodied and still say it’s a genuine sandman ? How do you prove it either way ?

Via preexisting evidence and documentation. Your looking for the Sandman tell tales signs, blackouts, roof lining, console brackets, decal remnants, whether the tags have been removed and replaced etc. Or photographic proof of these item when restored.