Working out design and finish for malachite hz van

[maxsandman]

Maybe "Caprice" is a good name for the van?

Gets my vote, I like that. cheers Max

[jennie285]

another visit to Rocket, and rare spares, we also picked up our seats from Elias, beautiful job, now we have everything to finish the interior





Braided hose and chrome ends to go on

[Vombil]

looks like you guys went jewelry shopping

[sandman 78]

wow the seats look good you gunna have fun getting those braided hoses on l found the top raidiator hose l had flex some muscle it should look good when finished

[jennie285]

looks like you guys went jewelry shopping

yup my sort of jewelry lol..

[maxsandman]

Hey Rod, Did you purposely put the RTS OR 5.0l badge in the wrong spot??

Hey Guys, I checked out some old pics (circa 1981-2) of my totally orig one owner (before me) HZ XU3 Atlantis Blue DL7 and definitely had R.T.S. badge below line and 5.0L badge above the line on tailgate as is on Rod & Jennies project van. Hope this helps.

cheers Max

[Innuendo]

I know there are issues with both Sandman's in this publication but the tailgate badge talk made me think of it.

Make of it what you will.

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[HK1837]

The other possibility is the engine size badge was optional as seen on this HZ order procedure special packages section extract.

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So if a dealer got you a stock vehicle out of plant stock or from the production schedule it probably wouldn't have a badge. If you wanted it the dealer had to put it on.

[playwme]

No engine size badge on the back of mine and no evidence to suggest there was one there. Fairly certain that the panel is original to the vehicle. RTS badge is present and below the line.

[HK1837]

Which was the standard thing. I guess if a customer wanted it the dealer wandered out into the yard and copied off a HJ and thus the badge ended up as per the van in the picture Innuendo put up above.