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    ute tailgate badge

    I have seen many different tailgates on sandman utes. On the HJ ute the black decal is just below the crease. I have seen ones without badges and some with v8 badge on the LHS and some with 4.2 litre badge on the RHS, what is standard?

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    It depends on what the ute is. For HJ Holden ute had a HOLDEN badge in the centre. Kingswood ute had a Kingswood badge. 4.2L and 5.0L optioned utes had the applicable badge on the LHS above the style line. The application of the XX7 or XY5 stripes made no different to badging on HJ.

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    did any of the utes have the V8 badge?

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    my ute only had the 5.0L badge on the LHS

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    HQ had the option of a V8 Badge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Innuendo View Post
    HQ had the option of a V8 Badge.
    With TRIMATIC above it if it was an auto and either Belmont or Kingswood on the right hand side.
    Vans.... This is the 2nd time round the block, 40 years later! talk about turning back the clock!

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    As above the V8 badge was HQ only. It was standard on V8 HQ models - came with the standard 253 or optional 308 (or 350 on passenger vehicles).

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    Yep. You never knew what was under someones bonnet with a HQ. HJ introduced 4.2 and 5.0 again after the plain V8 on HQ. Strange really why Holden didn't continue engine capacity badges on HQ after the really cool HK/T/G V8 crossed flag badges with the small 5 (litre), 327, 253, 308 and 350. I know they wanted to get away from the Chev badge, and the plain V8 is sort of cool in a mysterious way, but since they went to the trouble of doing a 202 badge, (and went mad with all sorts of capacity badges for Toranas at the same time), you'd think a 253 and 308 badge wouldn't have been an issue.
    Vans.... This is the 2nd time round the block, 40 years later! talk about turning back the clock!

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    The metric system confused them. To the point that the 253 should have been badged as a 4.1 (but they didn't want the V8 to be the same size as a Ford 6).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Innuendo View Post
    The metric system confused them. To the point that the 253 should have been badged as a 4.1 (but they didn't want the V8 to be the same size as a Ford 6).
    If you think that was bad, what about Ford.

    In XT they badged the 302 V8 as '5.0 litre'. In XY they went back to inches with '302'. In XC they went metric again, this time the 302 was only 4.9 litres.

    I guess this was probably so the public didn't directly compare it to the Holden 5.0/308 which was a better performer.

    BTW, for EB to AU the 302 was 5.0 litres again.

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