factory windows

[RAEME]

If your going to have side windows you want them like the yellow van. Then jam in some tinted bubble windows yeah, that's the stuff.

[Innuendo]

If your going to have side windows you want them like the yellow van. Then jam in some tinted bubble windows yeah, that's the stuff.

Yeah just like VAN RAT. I don't mind a set of bubble windows in a custom Van, but not in a factory Sandman trying to be factory original.

[Absinth]

If your going to have side windows you want them like the yellow van. Then jam in some tinted bubble windows yeah, that's the stuff.

That yellow van is my HX Sandman two owners before I got it. A pity it didn't look like that when I got it, it looks far worse now.

[mjb]

no such thing as 'factory' windows. no such tooling existed to press a 'factory' upper quarter side panel with windows.
windows in a van have only ever been an afterthought. and an ugly one at that
a van with windows isn't.
that's my opinion anyway...

[Absinth]

no such thing as 'factory' windows. no such tooling existed to press a 'factory' upper quarter side panel with windows.
windows in a van have only ever been an afterthought. and an ugly one at that
a van with windows isn't.
that's my opinion anyway...

Sorry champ but you are incorrect, vans came from the factory with side windows fitted. Most government fleet vans were supplied with windows.

The windows were not pressed out, they were hand cut out prior to paint colour being applied.

[mjb]

Sorry champ but you are incorrect, vans came from the factory with side windows fitted. Most government fleet vans were supplied with windows.

The windows were not pressed out, they were hand cut out prior to paint colour being applied.

Whether it was the dealers doing it after paint or the factory doing it pre paint for large fleet orders, I reckon it's still a 'modification' to the body. do you have part numbers for the glass and rubbers?
Whilst on this subject do you know how they did the lower tailgates for vans in regards to the corners needing to be cut out? cutting disc and migged up?

[Absinth]

Whether it was the dealers doing it after paint or the factory doing it pre paint for large fleet orders, I reckon it's still a 'modification' to the body. do you have part numbers for the glass and rubbers?
Whilst on this subject do you know how they did the lower tailgates for vans in regards to the corners needing to be cut out? cutting disc and migged up?

If you read the whole thread instead of just jumping in at the end you would have seen Innuendo posted all the part numbers on page 3 for side glass and rubbers.

A9X Torana was taken off the assembly line during assembly and sent to Pattersons down the road to have the hole in the bonnet cut out and the bonnet scoop fitted along with the guards being cut out and the flares fitted.... They then went back on the assembly line to be finished. Factory fitment? Dealer fitted? Or modification???

The lower tailgate was cut by hand and appears to be filled with jointing compound but I haven't really looked at them closely.

[RAEME]

A van doesn't exist in my opinion. They are just a ute with an afterthought spot welded on top......

Quite a nice afterthought tho, something to put a sunroof in and a big rear wing on.

[mjb]

A van doesn't exist in my opinion. They are just a ute with an afterthought spot welded on top......

good call.