engine number.

[socalplanedoc]

Cleaned off the enigne on my Fordor today to get the number - I thought it was supposed to have a Star before and after but didn't, what does that tell me?

If I concentrate, squint a little and look hard enough, it almost looks like someone machine off the original and stamped a different one..

 

[RHD]

Looks like it has been machined off and restamped. The stamping surface should be as a rough casting.

 

[Tom Wesenberg]

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o89/Tom_Wesenberg/Enginenumber.jpg

Here's an original number cut from a junk block, if the link works.
For the past week every time I go to PHOTOBUCKET, it opens with: "done, but with errors" in the bottom left corner of the page, so now I can only post a link to the picture, rather than the actual picture.

 

[socalplanedoc]

Looks like it has been machined off and restamped. The stamping surface should be as a rough casting.

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o89/Tom_Wesenberg/Enginenumber.jpg

Here's an original number cut from a junk block, if the link works.
For the past week every time I go to PHOTOBUCKET, it opens with: "done, but with errors" in the bottom left corner of the page, so now I can only post a link to the picture, rather than the actual picture.

Ya, that's what I thought. I wonder why someone would do that? maybe someone overhauled a homeless engine block machining the pad to erase it's original number, then stamped the number of this car's original engine when it was installed into it?

 

[1931 flamingo]

That's probably the most likely scenario.
Paaul in CT

 

[Aerocraft]

The numbers appear larger than they should be and the "two" is not identical to Henry's "two" as shown in Tom's example. Gar Williams

 

[Napa Skip]

Neither the "2" - as pointed out above - nor the "4" match either set of numerals used by Ford. Figure 1118 of the Ford Service Bulletins (February 1931, page 542) shows both the old set of numerals and the new set (which changed the "1", "6" and "9" in order to "...lessen any possibility of outside individuals attempting to change engine numbers...".) In the event, neither the new or old "2" or "4" had the bottom line extenders ("serif"). FSB Figure 1118 also shows the correct format of the original engine number, including the leading and trailing star.

[This information is also on Page 1-2 Rev 2011 of the Judging Standards.]

 

[mmindling]

Hi All,

Does anyone know the whereabouts of *457909*, a mid-28 tudor 9-29-28??
Just asking. Would like to find it. Last known location, Chicago, Illinois.
Painted Arabian Sand with Copra Drab, LeBaron interior, numbers matching.
Restored in the 1960's. Perhaps someone turned it into a rod, who knows? Restoration was a father/son project with my dad.

Any leads much appreciated.

Regards,

mmindling@aol.com

 

[329s]

If you look just a little to the right of the last 1...you can barely make out a 2 which is kind of cocked to the right.

Pluck