This is the sum total of black HQ commercials full stop. The next one I have is a 10/75 HJ van. Tuxedo Black was not a normal HQ Holden colour. It may have been a HQ Statesman colour in 1974, I don't have that colour chart. It was certainly used on HQ eg for upper body stripes/paintouts on GTS, but these were not applied in the paint area (exterior paint is in the Body Plant). There was a extra gun in the body plant paint booth for special paint, and this would be an example of that.
As per normal you could do a CTV (colour/trim variation) using the special instructions section of the order form to get a special colour, but it took a special customer or special dealer to get it through. This one was sold by Southern Motors (Bob Jane) so there's your special dealer. Tuxedo would have also been used on other specials eg multi-tone taxis, hearses or other funeral cars etc.
I'd buy it in a flash, but someone else has got hold of it, that is how I know of it. Extra effort will have to go into determining if this is a Sandman or not, as stated originally a black, auto HQ Kingswood Sandman ute would be the hardest of all to verify.
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