HQ Sandman found!!

[HK1837]

Yes the ol XX7 debate, being fairly uneducated with these matters from what i have learnt there are a few around and its not the be all and end all, some would have you believe otherwise but in so saying that would mean that any Sandman without XX7 would not be able to be gauranteed...i bet theres alot of people who would disagree with this as would I!!

Can someone answer for me and pls excuse my ignorance but wasnt XX7 an option for tyres, what if that option wasnt requested, would there still be an XX7, Was the XX7 only that and just an option...not a requirement??

There will be someone gauranteed can answer this one for me!

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Also what did the original seatbelts in a HQ look like?
Mainly i need to know about the clasps, were they plastic fantastic or the oldskool metal Holden ones with the Insignia of the lion on the button??

In HQ and HJ up to about 10/75 XX7 was the "Sports Option" or Sandman special package available on a few different model utes and vans. It had nothing to do with tyres. Around 10/75 the Sandman special package code changed to XU3. It was from that tim eonwards you could also specify passenger tyres on the Sandman package, and it was then that the code was changed to XX7.

In short, if you have an bonafide Sandman built in Brisbane and it doesn't have XX7 or XU3 on the BODY it then is a factory mistake, like you sometimes see elsewher eon plates like the 1985 plated LH Torana getting around and the odd other such mistakes. There is one on the HQ ID plates on my website where there is a J on the end of the VIN instead of Q.

[Kiwivan]

What a cracker of a van.
Drive and enjoy.

Cheers Kiwivan