It's not a Sandy but......

[Q set]

What if this was built 2 years later? Would I be in SM contention?

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As is; it's my parts carrier, spare bits holder, start-up and run-around-the-back-paddock-in-the-snow-ute.
I bought it unregoed for the tyres and the motor and the odd HQ pieces for the van as one does.

What I know....

• It was what looks like a deep green (then yellow, then grey, then yellow)
• It had a full instrument loom in it
• Maybe it had air-con
• A strange heavy bracket professionally welded to chassis rail (front right in engine bay ??)
• Similar heavy brackets/ mounts welded to back end of chassis rail (not quite right for exhaust mounts or sway bar)
• Orignal looking floor shift cut-out

Tag Time.:Tophat:
Holden Coupe Utility
2/72 CHQ59839S
GVW4850 Seat 2

Model 80280QR
Body No. 60339-S
Trim1847-21B (or Z1B?)
Paint 568-13889
Top
Eng. L31 Trans. M21 Axle GV2

Long Tag. 8M807CH7542460 (close I think... this tag is a hard one to read)

I will be interested to get the facts on this ute. It only occured to me a few months ago the have a good sqizz at the plates.

[mauser]

Strange they would spend so much on options on a Belmont ute when they could get a Kingy. My mate in the eighties had a similar optioned ute with L31/M21 Bucket seats, PS and AC. It didnt have a floor console or a seat seperator as far as I remember.

Mauser

[Blocker]

True why spend so much on a commercial, the only reasonable exception could be a dealer order. Any other reason you could think of?

[GNW1974]

That is a very unique combination so early in HQ life, the sort of vehicle that should be restored. The engine/trans combo would be even rarer than the Sandmans.

[Robbo]

I still maintain that some business owner's ordered well optioned vehicles and claimed it all back in tax. Quite a few people I worked with, and for, were doing it in the 70's. There were some quite nice commercial's getting around back then, this certainly fit's the bill.

[mr.jones]

How long have you owned the ute, I have had it recorded for a couple of years but didn't have a reference?

Nice options pity about the Balmoral Green paint

[HK1837]

Why do you think GMH realised there was a market for a sports utility? Remember the concept car was built in 3/72 so they were thinking about it right at the start of HQ. The reason is people were speccing up utes and vans, so they saw a market for it. This will be one of them (just not the GTS guards). There is even solid evidence of dealers (4 in particular) stripping GTS350 coupes and fitting driveline to utes and vans, with the 253 and trimatic going back into the GTS350 coupe to be sold as a new car.

Qset, it should be 12/72 as well, and could you get the number off the firewall (above the heater box)?

[Q set]

Qset, it should be 12/72 as well, and could you get the number off the firewall (above the heater box)?

Byron, how true, it's a 12th month. I got out the stripper and found a poorly stamped 1 in front of the 2. So I've added an extra 10 months to my early HQ, so not so early now.
Anyhow that firewall number for you ; 59847 S .

[jaft]

Why do you think GMH realised there was a market for a sports utility? Remember the concept car was built in 3/72 so they were thinking about it right at the start of HQ. The reason is people were speccing up utes and vans, so they saw a market for it. This will be one of them (just not the GTS guards). There is even solid evidence of dealers (4 in particular) stripping GTS350 coupes and fitting driveline to utes and vans, with the 253 and trimatic going back into the GTS350 coupe to be sold as a new car.

That interesting to hear about dealers removing the GTS Driveline to put into the Utes Vans...
What about the Compliance plates did they change them to identify which one they might have been. How would u tell?

[HK1837]

That interesting to hear about dealers removing the GTS Driveline to put into the Utes Vans...
What about the Compliance plates did they change them to identify which one they might have been. How would u tell?

You couldn't tell on a 1971-1972 HQ. A V8 Kingswood ute ordered as 253 column auto would be plated identically to one with a 350 and TH400.

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what date did they start to make hq and what date did they finish? aloso did chasis no start at 0?

Production examples of passenger HQ's started in 5/71 and the last were 9/74. Commercials around 10/71 start.