Re: One more time on the Build date, please

Posted by John Icenhower on September 07, 1998 at 22:33:24

In Reply to: Re: One more time on the Build date, please
posted by Fred H. Engelman on September 06, 1998 at 13:17:10

: Larry,
: There are two places where Ford stamped numbers on cars, I don't see that an AA truck would be any different(I don't know for sure).One is the engine number found on the side of the motor.The other is on the left side frame just under the front edge of the cowl section.You would have to lift the body to see it. The chances of these numbers matching would be next to nil except on the earlier models.Ford made engines and body parts separately.The farther they got into production the worse it got.Many of my relatives worked for Ford and when I ask them about identification they stare into space.It was not a problem!
Fred,
The number on the frame and on the engine matched on all Model A's originally.The number was stamped on the engine at the time it was built and when the engine was dropped into the frame, the number from the engine was then stamped onto the frame.
The reason the numbers don't match on many Model A's today is that the engine has been replaced at sometime during the intervening 70 years.
John