DL7 would have been easier to sell towards the end? They must have been selling less and less of the striped ones towards the end or they would not have dropped them in WB. I bet most sandmans being restored were DL7 as dealers could have had them as floor stock and being fully loaded they would have been easy to sell. My brother looked at a new HZ ute with GTS dash 5 litre and bucket seats but bought a XD Falcon ute instead with a 6 cylinder because of the fuel crisis (what a mistake, he would still have had it now). I bet it was a DL7 and there was no way he is the sort of person to buy a car that stands out too much! If it was a DL7 sandman they sure never told him.
I reckon that there would have been more DL7 than striped Sandmans in HX and HZ. What was the difference in price between a DL7 to a Kingswood with all the same options? If they were cheaper it would have made sense to have been flogging them instead of the Kingswood ute. Plus it would have been way easier to tick the DL7 sandman van box than go through all the optioning up of a standard van. If the salesman was lazy then they would not have even told the customer that hated sandmans that they had just bought one.