Maybe it was easier to see the auto trans indicator? These would be the only WB Statesmans with a RH shift Trimatic too. Would be a very rare Trimatic code, if you ever get under and look post up its code.

I'll have a look under it today if I get a chance and check the Trimatic code, HK1837.

I reckon the single-spoke wheel looks good but on my last WB I thought that the wheel rim was too thin. I ended up fitting a leather steering wheel cover to it to thicken it up.

Not a huge fan of the two-spoke VK wheel in a WB, it does look odd to me. Maybe I'll fit the two-spoke wheel from HX-HX (and WB commercials).

Then again, the VK wheel (well, VC-VK were all the same AFAIK, but it would have been pulled out of the VK parts bin) is what the factory fitted, so maybe I'll leave it.

Maybe GM-H didn't want a Statesman to have the same wheel as the Commercials, but wanted it to be different to the five-seat Statos. Still doesn't really make sense.

As the WBII sedan used all the same trim colours as the VK (cerulean, oyster etc), it would make sense to fit a VK steering wheel rather than a commercial one - assuming they offered the bench in multiple trim colours (although when it returned in VN, you could only get it in beige).

I did the same as you with an SL/E wheel - I trimmed it with 2 strips of leather, one over the top of the other, and it was perfect.

The 2 spoke is the same from VB-VK - but VB had a different horn pad to the later cars.
Does the WB one have the regular lion logo like the commodore (VC-VK horn pad), or did they put the Stato wreath into it?

Yes the wheel looks identical to VC-VK, so the badge on the horn bar is the Holden lion with the bottom chopped off, if you know what I mean. The centre instruments are different too. Only fuel gauge and coolant temperature gauge, no volts or oil pressure. Instead there's warning lights (which floorshift WBs have too, but different) and below that the gear indicator.

And that was the setup they put in the one Brock Magnum ute. Bench seat and column auto out of a Statesman Deville(only Deville had the column shift option).

WB commercial was standard column shift if you optioned auto.

Ah, I get it now. I've never seen a Magnum ute. I've heard there was one plus a conversion of a used ute.

The one built by HDT was a white one, which has sometimes been called the "Eyecamp" ute - that being the name of the buyer. It spent a long time at HDT getting a myriad of things done to it. There are photos of it in the workshops circa-'88, so yes, it was done after WBs had finished production.

There is another one around, which was built up from a Deville based Magnum sedan.
It is not a ute that HDT built, and the owner has never claimed it to be.

Here's a pic of inside the WB (not a very good pic, sorry). While the PO has got the front bench re-trimmed in original 'wool' cloth, the trimmer must not have used some of the original springing. The base feels like it's just got a lot of soft foam underneath -- I sit very low behind the wheel, like I did when I was eight years-old driving my grandfather's HQ Premier! Anyone know of an old Holden-knowledgable trimmer in Sydney I could take it to to get fixed?

Does anyone know what Buckskin really means for trim colour -- I take it it's the light tan of the seat vinyl, not the medium brown of the dash/steering wheel etc? What's that colour called?

In HZ anything with 62V, 63V or 63C got a Tan instrument pad, instrument panel lower and compartment door. By the looks of that picture WB was the same and it looks like it got Tan kick panels as well. Tan is 67V/67C on a HZ Kingwood (or 67V on Sandman) upwards, on HZ Holden 67V/67C (except Sandman with 67V) is called Brown.

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