| mike1 | -- 11-14-2013 @ 4:22 PM |
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am restoring my 40 sedan and have some real oddity?; on the firewall are stamped 1" letters: 23B 29 CHE also front axle is tubular?? Could this have been made in Canada?? Serial number on front rail is: 54532410
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| kubes40 | -- 11-14-2013 @ 6:03 PM |
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Nothing really that unusual. It was a domestically built car. I have witnessed a number of seeming "anomalies" like those stamped numbers. I can only offer an educated guess as to what they were intended to signify as I have yet to unearth any documents that explain them. Okay, if there is an "18" prefix on your serial number then your cars engine and transmission was built in to an assembly in December, 1939. Typically it would have taken 2 - 6 weeks before it was fitted to a vehicle. So, we can only guess your car was built between the middle of January and February of 1940. If the "54" is the prefix and not part of the serial number as you have posted, then your engine / transmission assembly was produced in January, 1940. That tubular axle, while fairly rare these days was installed in a number of 1940 Fords, especially early in the production run. They were intended to be installed in the 60HP equipped cars only but in reality, they found their way in to numerous 85HP equipped cars as well. This message was edited by kubes40 on 11-15-13 @ 6:23 AM
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| Kenneth M. | -- 11-15-2013 @ 6:56 AM |
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OK Mike On my vehicle identification number 5725154 when was my car built and where,body style. Kenneth M. Stewart
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| TomO | -- 11-15-2013 @ 7:54 AM |
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Kenneth, The serial numbers for 1940 ranged from 5,210,701 to 5,896,294. Yours was built late in the product cycle. The serial number does not say where it was built or the body style, it is just the sequence number of your engine. Tom
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| kubes40 | -- 11-15-2013 @ 8:16 AM |
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Ken, As Tom has stated, the serial number will not tell a person anything more than when the engine was mated to the transmission. Please understand that Ford built the engines and transmissions as separate units. Then they would mate these two assemblies. Once mated, the serial number of the transmission was noted on a card that was wired to this "master assembly". At that point these "master assemblies" (transmission & engine) were shipped to the various assembly plants throughout the country. Once there, they were installed to a chassis. ONLY at that time was the number hand stamped to the frame. Your engine & transmission assembly was built in the month of April, 1940. That being the case, your car was probably built sometime between the last week of April and the middle of May, 1940. But, remember, there is no certainty to those dates, only an estimate. Mike Kubarth
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| Kenneth M. | -- 11-15-2013 @ 8:48 AM |
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One thing that tells me is my car takes single white walls tires. Always a lot to learn. Thanks for the information. Kenneth M. Stewart
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| mike1 | -- 11-15-2013 @ 12:20 PM |
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mike thanks for your help
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