Orange Roughy

[playwme]

Just had another look at the numbers you posted from the tags. Orange roughy was built in the last month of HJ production (6/76) and has the regular GVM. There's still the possibility of it being an XU3 Sandman (picture it as the "tradies special", all the Sandman stuff but with commercial tyres instead of passenger).
The interesting thing is the colour, Papaya. Far as I know that's a HX colour, and it wouldn't be unusual for Holden to release a few colours early. Just before the V2 Monaro was released we received a bunch of VX Executive rental cars in really loud colours. One hothouse green, one devil yellow, one vixen(?) red.

Given its 308 option and black interior then it could be a one off built to debut the HX at a motor show or something like that. Possibly a Holden employee did a special order when they saw the new HX colours. It's definitely not your ordinary panelvan.

[HK1837]

Just had another look at the numbers you posted from the tags. Orange roughy was built in the last month of HJ production (6/76) and has the regular GVM. There's still the possibility of it being an XU3 Sandman (picture it as the "tradies special", all the Sandman stuff but with commercial tyres instead of passenger).
The interesting thing is the colour, Papaya. Far as I know that's a HX colour, and it wouldn't be unusual for Holden to release a few colours early. Just before the V2 Monaro was released we received a bunch of VX Executive rental cars in really loud colours. One hothouse green, one devil yellow, one vixen(?) red.

Given its 308 option and black interior then it could be a one off built to debut the HX at a motor show or something like that. Possibly a Holden employee did a special order when they saw the new HX colours. It's definitely not your ordinary panelvan.

Papaya is actually a HJ Holden and TX Gemini colour introduced on colour chart A626 in 3/76. It was also an LX Torana colour when colour chart A627 was released soon after the same month. These same HJ colours carried on into HX on clour chart A628 in 6/76 - this colour chart was identical to A626/7 except for the models listing on the rear.