HEY MEN, IM AWAY AT WORK AT THE MOMENT SO NOT SURE OF EXACT BUILD DATE OF MY SANDY.7/78 RINGS A BELL, NO GTS GUARDS FITTED.I DONT HAVE THE ORIGINAL 253,IT WAS SWAPPED FOR ANOTHER ONE BEFORE I GOT IT.AS FAR AS I KNOW IM THE 3RD OWNER IVE HAD IT FOR THE LAST 11 YEARS (MY FIRST CAR)THE PREVIOUS OWNER HAD IT FOR ABOUT THAT AS WELL,IT HAS SPENT MOST OF ITS LIFE IN THE KIMBERLEYS IN W.A.WHATS SHE WORTH MINUS ORIGINAL ENGINE DO YOU THINK? CHEERS, ROB

Hey,

I recon we are about to have a bit of a boom in prices when it comes to the Sandman utes or good Replicas .They have been under priced for to long now . You get the same feeling of V8 grunt & smell & handling as any other classic car & some of them are now worth 1million bucks . XYGTHO.

I recon you have to start stocking up on GTS rims , HZ GTS dashes etc or anything else , Any suggestions ??

I remember about 6 months - 1 year ago you used to see V8 well body utes in the Sunday times WA Readers mart car
Ute section . (Forget about 1 tunners) It was quite common to see 3 or 4 for sale from prices say 3k- 10k . (Eastern states prices i think are cheaper than Perth) why is that ??

Ive been looking for the past few months & havent been seeing any for sale . people are beginning to realise that they are better off keeping there HQ-HZ because they are underpriced & about to move up in price. Ive seen it happen in property , people realise that they have missed the boat if they want to own a old 30 year classic , so they get in at the bottom end of the scale ie HQ - HZ . which inturn pushes the pirces up.



Rusty



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hey,
i am doing up a wb ute. i like that colour on urs. whats the code.

The code , The colour was s h i t of the bench all put together cost nothing , ( being a panelbeater
My Spraypainter mate was collecting left over silver from jobs )

It does look close to AZTEC SILVER which is a HZ SANDMAN Colour

I can tell you that the cars we were working on at the time he was collecting the paint were mainly Mercedes & Bmws
Oh and he told me to buy 1 extra litre of Merc silver to make it up a bit .

Hass , I diddnt get my ute blasted because some of the paint underneath was very good . Which means: there was no cracking
or blistering . I just wizzed it right back flat & Two Pac primed straight over it .

I believe that if I had of had it blasted it would of added a extra month to the repair time .
It took me 150 hours to get ready for paint and i did not get it blasted .

If you have rust you can take the surrounding area back to bare metal then weld up the rust
and then blend your filler up to the primer edge . It is a little bit of an art but it can be done .

If you need to know anything else about panelbeating repairs just let me know .



Thanks


Rusty




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New photos coming soon with new front bumper and overiders .




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Wow , When do you think you will rebuild them up to smick.

Does anyone know how many Hz sandman panelvans they made

caoi rusty

Thats a nice front clip hainzy .


Hear are the photos I promised of the ute with the new front overiders .( which i think look totally awesome)















Next I have a brand new Sandman 18v Slate black hoodlining going in & numerous other stuff on the cards aswell

I dont drive the ute much any more as we have 3 cars so she gets driven on sunny days for special occasions . Most of the time
she is garaged .

I have a question , I still have the sandman guard stickers but because I have the GTS guards they dont fit in the spot where they should go

I was thinking about putting them just above where they should go (above the line)

does anyone know if any one has done this on a HZ sandman Ute or van with GTS guards . Because there are utes and vans out there with GTs guards.


Cheers Rusty

Rusty,

Did your chin scoop line up first time, or were there gaps that needed sorting?

Mine requires about 4 thin washers to pack out the front corner to prevent the rear of the spoiler hanging over into the wheel arch.

j

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Keep the shiny side up, and the greasy side down.

Thanks for info. I bit the bullet and did some trimming and filling.

Pulling the spoiler hard against the front, the point at back hung over arch by around 1cm. Re-aim so that new end point would be along same line, and trim a wedge from trailing edge to just behind rounded edge. Left hand spoiler(without the ridge at end) sat a little odd, so shaped to sit around radiator opening.

Was left with around 1/2 cm max gap at front corners, and a minor edging and reshape at rear (along with filling the gap in the middle). Nu-tek the big gaps and prime, just have to skim fill the rough bits and finish sand and paint. But is looking heaps better already. Have stayed with screw fastening for the moment (as will do full repaint eventually).

j

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Keep the shiny side up, and the greasy side down.

Drove the Ute Today & It went like a dream , Heaps of poke , Lifes Good .


More photos soon , Might put some photos in the Street machine Readers Cars.

Have to go up in the hills to get a few good snaps

Rusty


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