I am glad that this post has come up as I have been looking in to the HQ brackets a bit more lately as I am not as sure now with them.
It looks like my off road car could have been modified at some stage and had the bracket fitted to suit the HJ style console at the front.
This now does not really come as much of a surprise as the car has had a HJ onwards dash cut into it at some stage along with a few other (Cough) improvements.
My other on road car I remember cutting the rear bracket off and changing it to suit the HJ onwards style bracket and I thought that I had also mucked around with front bracket moving it to suit the different position of the front mount location of the HJ console as well. But maybe not.
This was back in 1987/88 so it looks like my memory may not be as crisp as I thought on the mater.
Mauser it looks like I could have given you and some other people a bum steer on that one so I apologize for that.
Cheers Paul.