On Canadian vehicles
It seems like this is the pattern
When the paint code is 3 digits
And the first digit matches the last digit of the model year
In your case 8 for 1948
Then you 830 means paint color 30
And 8 is just whatever it was mixing to in 1948
30 is commercial blue
Whatever that means
It’s not the same blue as in the USA
Canada made their own paints
Good luck
Edit 30 as commercial blue is from a 1954 Canadian paint book
In 1948 the code 30 could have been anything else
As other codes totally changed colour between a shorter time span
I am trying to compile a list of known codes from actual vehicles but 30 is not yet on my list
-s
Last edited by 2ManyTrucks; 12/12/2022 12:20 AM.
