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Holden Sandman is a Panel Van and Ute produced by Holden in Australia between 1971 and 1979 . A lot of people nowadays think all panelvans are Sandmans, but the Sandman was a specific run of panel van with certain options on it. Although manufactured in conjunction with the utility models, the panel van is externally similar to a Station Wagon , save the lack of side windows, rear seats, and a noticeably extended rear roofline, it gained notoriety during the latter half of the 1970s as a mobile venue for Sexual Intercourse . It earned such nicknames as ''shaggin' wagons'' and ''sinbins'', dreaded by the mothers of teenage Girl s (fearing their daughters would be seduced by the young male Sandman drivers) and by the teenage Girl s themselves (fearing they would be Rape d). To the young men who drove the vans, however, the Sandman represented a lifestyle of freedom, sun, sand and Surfing . The Ford Sundowner and Chrysler Drifter also competed with Holden's Sandman in the panelvan arena; the Drifter was axed in 1978, and while still popular, Ford dropped ''Sundowner'' from its title for its panelvans. While Ford continued successfully manufacturing and marketing panelvans for another 14 years after Holden's last model, they never quite achieved the cultural icon status the Sandman seemed to evoke. By the early 1980s however, the Sandman had largely lost its place in the contemporary Australian culture, and became merely a trade vehicle and an icon of a bygone era; Holden's last commercially released panelvan was their WB panelvan (off the defunct Kingswood model) in 1983. Holden has more recently made a concept Sandman, based on the VU ute, in conjuntion with the surfwear company Mambo , seen on display in Melbourne 's 2003 Automobile Show. It was criticised for retaining the internal firewall and rear window of the ute it was based on between the cargo bay and passenger cab however, and sadly never gained enough popularity to be put back into production. |
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