Wanted HQ-Z Sandman

**72kingswood** · 26-11-2010, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by ozbox

i would not be pondering the mystery of a dash in a van...:errf:

when i bought my hq sandman in 2000 it was a rolling bare shell with 2 doors and 2 gaurds and a set of tags that had never been tampered with..it had been sitting in a lean to out west around orange somewhere...it was absolutely stripped bare except for its original gaurds and doors..no glass no wiring no fuel tank no frigin nothing..
everyone thought i was mad for paying 2k for it,which in the year 2000 it was worth nothing as vans werent exciting..
i have spent 10 years peicing this van together including its date coded recoed 308 and the hardest to obtain peices of new old stock in australia as i have had to battle with gts owners to obtain unobtanium..not cheap to do..pictures are not what you need if you are serious about buying the rarest of all sandmans ever built...
picture collectors ask for pics and buyers get on the phone and speak about things before asking for pics.

Fair enough. I'm not ready to buy for about a month so I just wanted a rough idea of its condition before I pestered you for too many details.

**HK1837** · 26-11-2010, 04:28 PM

I would love to have Greg's XX7 if it was a ute! A 308 4spd HQ XX7 in yellow is a pretty desirable thing, and vans seem to be more valuable than utes although the utes are heaps rarer today. I don't think there would be a more valuable combination out there. Rarest would probably be a HQ Belmont XX7 ute in 173 auto, but who the hell would want that?!
In all honesty, if you paid $10k for a complete but some rust Sandman that needed a full resto. Then you looked at Greg's for $20k. I betcha that upon completing the resto, you'd spend the $10k or more extra in bodywork on the cheaper one. With Greg's you get straight panels and a near rust free straight body.