Sandman Sales Numbers??

[seavan]

I was only thinking yesterday that the HQ Sandy is now a 40 year old car and are still turning up. I think allot of that is that people now have great knowledge at hand on here to actually find out if they have a legit sandy or not! So many still think they have to have xx7 on the tags, but allot are starting to be educated thats not the case, hence more coming out of the woodwork. I think its a shame though the amount of utes being found does not seem to have increased as I think most utes that had a gts dash and v8 ended up as B&S utes and got the life thrashed out of them,even Im guilty of that one. I can remember a mate of mine and I did circle work in his HX Sandman ute for hours one night trying to blow the motor as he was dropping an 308 in it for the next B&S and its long gone now, squashed and recycled!

[wbute]

I was only thinking yesterday that the HQ Sandy is now a 40 year old car and are still turning up. I think allot of that is that people now have great knowledge at hand on here to actually find out if they have a legit sandy or not! So many still think they have to have xx7 on the tags, but allot are starting to be educated thats not the case, hence more coming out of the woodwork. I think its a shame though the amount of utes being found does not seem to have increased as I think most utes that had a gts dash and v8 ended up as B&S utes and got the life thrashed out of them,even Im guilty of that one. I can remember a mate of mine and I did circle work in his HX Sandman ute for hours one night trying to blow the motor as he was dropping an 308 in it for the next B&S and its long gone now, squashed and recycled!

True. I saw a lot abused beyond belief. A lot of vans got butchered in the van craze though too. I think that not many people are looking for utes though. I saw a HQ ute in Dubbo yesterday. Looked to be an original V8 with bucket seats and floor shift. Still being used by a tradie. It might take another ten years for utes to overtake vans in desirability.

[hx-sandman]

I think its a shame though the amount of utes being found does not seem to have increased as I think most utes that had a gts dash and v8 ended up as B&S utes and got the life thrashed out of them,even Im guilty of that one. I can remember a mate of mine and I did circle work in his HX Sandman ute for hours one night trying to blow the motor as he was dropping an 308 in it for the next B&S and its long gone now, squashed and recycled!

I got a bit nostalgic reading that lol - I remember at least 3 sandman utes in our circle too - Aquarius HX, Yellow HX, Brown HX - although the WB was the definite top of the tree. Every time I think about buying another ute (mid life crisis) I get torn between a neat WB Kingswood and an HZ Sandman, but the extra $$ for some stickers and blackouts makes me balk at the Sandman these days.

Twin two inch system straight into hot dogs - that would be the song of my youth lol