Kingswood Sandman ute

[HK1837]

It certainly stands out on an LE when you see one stripped naked, blasted etc. These are the only cars that I know of that have this done to them. They must have been given Pagewood HJ body plant tracking numbers, and then got new HX numbers when they got a HX firewall. I'm not sure yet if the gap in HJ numbers has been nailed down enough to get a close approximation to where the bodies were actually assembled. Just means more HJ Pagewood firewall numbers are needed. Due to the big muck around with these, they are one of the few Pagewood HQ-mid 1978 HZ cars where the body number strays much from the chassis number, but they do cause cars created during their assembly and afterwards to be skewed a bit also.

[Dick61]

It certainly stands out on an LE when you see one stripped naked, blasted etc. These are the only cars that I know of that have this done to them. They must have been given Pagewood HJ body plant tracking numbers, and then got new HX numbers when they got a HX firewall. I'm not sure yet if the gap in HJ numbers has been nailed down enough to get a close approximation to where the bodies were actually assembled. Just means more HJ Pagewood firewall numbers are needed. Due to the big muck around with these, they are one of the few Pagewood HQ-mid 1978 HZ cars where the body number strays much from the chassis number, but they do cause cars created during their assembly and afterwards to be skewed a bit also.

Good on ya! I'm reading this and thinking "whats an LE? Then it clicked, you're talking about those ugly red 2 door kingswoods. I didn't realise that they went to the trouble of changing the firewall on the LEs, maybe it had something to do with the ADRs at the time.

[HK1837]

They weren't a Kingswood, the last Kingswood lux level coupe was a HQ Monaro (80337 and 80437). Only LS (Premier) and GTS in HJ and the standalone HX LE after that.

The firewall was changed as a HJ firewall is different to a HX in a few areas, and it must have been deemed better to replace the whole thing rather than weld up holes and move stuff.

[jason.ruff]

good comments guys but no matter if it is reshelled and re-engined it would be another sandman saved from the scrap heap. Anyway haven't had a look yet still at work for another week, chassis may be roo ted. who can afford an ls7, know another bloke with a mild blown 350 for sale as well.But thought that would go good in the hq panno.

[jason.ruff]

Just contacted the bloke and numbers don't match so im not sure what people are bidding on

[HK1837]

Best walk away, unless you can buy it for less than $100 for the tags to hang on the shed wall!

[Outlaw]

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I took a carburetor controlled 350 out of my HQ, and fitted an LS engine- best thing I ever did to it, thoroughly recommend it to anyone. Not as hard as some think either.