Color Code Mystery Solved? "SJ"

[GTWilliams]

Check this out. My color code on my VIN for my a '77 XLT 250 says "SJ". My truck is two-tone: blue and grey.

It looks like Ford had that same blue for various vehicles and called it different names. And since my truck is two-tone they likely only had room for two letters on the VIN and converted "3-G" to "S". (Is this true?)

Touch-up paint companies only have this color as 3-G. (!!!) See Chart. You would think the two major touch up paint companies and local Ford dealer would would have known this info. How would I know S is 3-G?

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/paintdetail.cgi?ppg=2472

http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedi ... ark%20Blue

I'm 99% sure I finally solved this paint mystery but please tell me if I'm wrong.

[68RGR]

This sort of reminds me of the movie remake thing - Same name for different movies! Ought to be The Flight of the Phoenix 2008 or whatever year it was.

Opposite with paint - Should be SAME NAME and SAME CODE regardless.

Ford should have had better sense.

Of course, they should have had better sense than to bury the A/C fan motor like they did in dent sides when it COULD and SHOULD have been designed to be replaced from under in the hood.