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Thread: HZ Sandman Van - 1978, Original, Jasmine Yellow with DY1 Stripes!

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    Does look good.

    I do like how you have blended the spoiler. Is it metal?

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    Nah mate that`s BOG! My brother did it...

    To cut a long story short the `Rare Spares` spoiler was`nt a great fit and really took some major sorting out ... After trimming it up etc to get it on the front of my ute it was all outta whack on the ends so my brother got the BOG out and BOGGED it into the gaurds then sanded it back to get it even on both sides... He also put a some metel rods inside the front spoiler then welded some more rods from that onto the front of the nosecone then filled the whole front spoiler with foam... Basically the whole front (nose cone, guards and front spoiler) is a one-piece and I wrote my name in there somewhere as well

    Looks great but if I ever cruch the front spoiler the whole front comes off to start again.

    While I`m mentioning BOG some-one out there tell me how to straighten a car up without BOG?

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    I didn't realise the attention to detail.
    DEFINATLY looks the part for sure.
    The foam you were talking about, is that the expanding foam you get from Bunnings?

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    Hi there again AgrO, yeah mate that`s the stuff but not too sure where it come from, it was pretty high density stuff too so if you ever use it clean up the overspill quick or you`ll be there for a while cleaning it up afterwards.

    A quick word about the front spoiler... there`s a bit of a shudder in the front at about 80 clicks that I can only put down to the front spoiler. This was eliminated when I put the bullbar on to go truckin` round` on holidays... It does`nt do anything else different at any other speed with or without the bullbar even at very high speeds ooopps

    Lately my brother got that bonnet straight and I`ve given the grill and headlight surrounds a new lick of paint, getting the bumpers and over-riders re-chromed next... she`ll look pretty schmick after that.

    It really did raise some eyebrows when I was outback on holidays... not too sure if it had much to do with the stripe/ colour combo though...


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    Here`s an interesting one from the HZ brochure, yellow and DY1 but is that jasmine or absynth?


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    Hehe, that's why you can't rely on brochure pics for accuracy in restoring your Sandman. That is a Absinth Yellow HX Sandman that has had HZ parts added to it for the HZ promotional photo's.

    Hate to burst your bubble but the decals on it are DY2 which were far more popular than the DY1 option. I have seen a few original yellow Sandman's with DY1 decals and most were utes.
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    7/76 HX Monaro 4dr 308 4sp... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell.. SOLD
    3/77 HX Sandman Panelvan ... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell .. SOLD

    http://www.44gpw.info/sandman-decalssmall2.jpg

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    No worries mate I was just going off what Jason said...

    BTW, When I got my yellow from Johns Paint Shed at Hemmant the old bloke there told me that a few years ago the name got changed from absynth to absinth cause some-one in Korea spelt it wrong when the new paints came out and it went through all the computers for the weights of how to make `absinth` yellow.
    I`m still sticking with absynth though but it`s good to see that you`re up to speed for when we want to get some paint made :D

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    Your old fella from Hemmant is telling stories...... It's spelt A B S I N T H on the 1974, 1975 and 1976 Holden paint colour charts, back then the paint was made here in Australia by Dulux.

    I'll stick with the way Holden and the original paint supplier spell it.... ;)
    4/75 HJ XX7 Sandman Panelvan ... Persian Sand currently restoring
    7/76 HX Monaro 4dr 308 4sp... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell.. SOLD
    3/77 HX Sandman Panelvan ... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell .. SOLD

    http://www.44gpw.info/sandman-decalssmall2.jpg

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    If you say but there`s a whole lotta Y`s that somehow got in there over the years...

    You`ve got a great many more to re-educate than me.

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    I don't say so...... Holden say's so.... Not my problem if a whole lotta people out there are illiterate..

    4/75 HJ XX7 Sandman Panelvan ... Persian Sand currently restoring
    7/76 HX Monaro 4dr 308 4sp... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell.. SOLD
    3/77 HX Sandman Panelvan ... Absinth Yellow and rusty as hell .. SOLD

    http://www.44gpw.info/sandman-decalssmall2.jpg

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