late 31 s/w Murray or Briggs
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Mike V. Florida
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That's a tag from a Victoria.
Bick in New Zealand
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Marco Tahtaras
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That's interesting. For me however, a RHD firewall in a Victoria raises more questions than answers!
Tom Wesenberg
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Tom, might have to rethink this one. Here is Mark Maron's 31 Briggs Blindback before I removed the engine and sanded and repainted the firewall black. No flat on this one.
Now that flat spot on my other picture brings up more questions. Was this maybe a time thing?Attachments
Marco Tahtaras
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Tom, might have to rethink this one. Here is Mark Maron's 31 Briggs Blindback before I removed the engine and sanded and repainted the firewall black. No flat on this one.
Are you saying he has a Briggs body with a Murray firewall? See the cage nut where the speedometer cable clamp fastens.
Marco Tahtaras
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Tom, might have to rethink this one. Here is Mark Maron's 31 Briggs Blindback before I removed the engine and sanded and repainted the firewall black. No flat on this one.
I should have asked what you saw on Mark's 160-C that determined it was a Briggs body.
Tom Wesenberg
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When I removed the dash rail it had the "B" and as I recall some kind of a bug stamping. I'll have to ask Mark again to be sure.
Tom Wesenberg
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Are you saying he has a Briggs body with a Murray firewall? See the cage nut where the speedometer cable clamp fastens.
The speedometer nut is crimped in place. I'll see if I have a better picture.
Tom Wesenberg
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Marco Tahtaras
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That is an old reproduction tag. The seemingly random numbers exclude the Briggs body number prefix (153) so obviously they didn't have a clue what a Briggs 160-C would have.
Mike V. Florida
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My Briggs tag on the firewall has the "vin" stamped on it as accepted by Florida DMV.
Marco Tahtaras
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Roger V
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FWIW, I ventured into the cold storage part of my garage, and I do mean cold, to check the 160-C. I'm saying it's a Briggs due to the D-nuts on the firewall for the speedometer cable clamp and terminal box loom. It has the flat section of the indented teardrop, something I never knew/noticed until shown here. The other three slants are Murray with cage nuts and rounded teardrop.
msmaron
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Yea they was no uniformity to the stamping, right, left, upside down??
Charles Coe
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So what's the verdict? Was the firewall replaced at some point or was it originally assembled this way?
Charles Coe ;
If this question is addressed to me my findings were .
1) All 31 S/W look the same ie have curved window framing like a Murray . NO factory applied manufacture tag on any 31 S/W . Briggs did put their bugg on some out of sight locations . My 31 s/w has a Briggs tag on the fire wall added by whom ever restored it many years ago. I assume the Briggs bug is on the car some where and the restorer wanted to denote that by putting a Briggs tag on the fire wall . Some day if I ever take the car apart I will look for a Briggs bug . As always appreciate every ones input .
If this question is addressed to me my findings were .
1) All 31 S/W look the same ie have curved window framing like a Murray . NO factory applied manufacture tag on any 31 S/W . Briggs did put their bugg on some out of sight locations . My 31 s/w has a Briggs tag on the fire wall added by whom ever restored it many years ago. I assume the Briggs bug is on the car some where and the restorer wanted to denote that by putting a Briggs tag on the fire wall . Some day if I ever take the car apart I will look for a Briggs bug . As always appreciate every ones input .
