Production Date based on Body number?
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TerryOH
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Use the frame serial number (on top of the LH frame side member near the front cross member or the steering box) as the "Engine Number" and check the 37 Ford Club restoration book. Ford "Engines" did not have a serial number from the factory. The original transmission has the original frame number stamped into it. Many times the transmissions are changed.
The body numbers were placed there by the Mfg. (Not Ford) and the body may have sat for a while before assembly on the chassis on the Ford assembly line.
The body numbers were placed there by the Mfg. (Not Ford) and the body may have sat for a while before assembly on the chassis on the Ford assembly line.
blucar
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It is a well know fact that the serial and/or body number on any pre '49 Ford is nothing more than a sequential production number.
The body number, which was only assigned to bodies that were out sourced by Ford, therefore it has no meaning for after production identification.
An example: My '36 Ford is a late production, Sept. 36 car, the serial number places it within the last few hundred built. It does not have a body number on the firewall, never did, therefore it is a Ford built body in lieu of being a Briggs. etc...
The body number, which was only assigned to bodies that were out sourced by Ford, therefore it has no meaning for after production identification.
An example: My '36 Ford is a late production, Sept. 36 car, the serial number places it within the last few hundred built. It does not have a body number on the firewall, never did, therefore it is a Ford built body in lieu of being a Briggs. etc...