Nice HQ Sandman - Car Sales 15 March 2018 - Monterey Green White Stripes

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You just can’t go with seat of the pants estimates as not all had the stripes fitted.
There is absolutely no doubt that Holden would never have continued with the Sandman unless they sold a significant number of HQ’s over the ten month run. Ten months is a long time in car production.

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You just can’t go with seat of the pants estimates as not all had the stripes fitted.
There is absolutely no doubt that Holden would never have continued with the Sandman unless they sold a significant number of HQ’s over the ten month run. Ten months is a long time in car production.

Yeah well I can and did! I knew of multiple HQ SS's and XU-1's around town in the 70's and 80's (even owned one of each) and only ever knew of 1 HQ Sandman Van in the same area and I was heavily into Vans. Seriously we knew of every Van around including the dry cleaners, bakers and the NRMA Vans etc. So while I can speculate I, like you and everybody else can't put a exact number on it. If it was thousands (in my opinion) they would be more around all those years and more about today.

You are right Holden wouldn't have gone on with them without decent sales figures. But you don't know those number either!
It wasn't like a whole new model with tooling etc. Just throw GTS parts onto a Belmont or Kingswood Ute (and chuck a sticker kit in the glovebox).