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Posted By Discussion Topic: another color -- page: 1 2     46fordnut 10-10-2010 @ 11:21 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 332 Joined: Oct 2009 most of the peeling is because i tried to cover the odd color with spray paint . but the spray paint only will stick for a few month at best.the odd other color only shows on the drivers side as far as i can tell. my paint doesn't stick to well to the odd color. i have not intention of trying to paint he car myself . after i take it to have body work i will have a pro paint it. supereal 10-10-2010 @ 8:56 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 6819 Joined: Oct 2009 Peeling paint on an old car is not unusual. A good number of them received a "quicky" Earl Shieb type job, often applied with little or no prep. When I bought my '47 it was covered with some kind of strange black paint that would come off on a cloth soaked with ordinary thinner, when lightly rubbed. This required stripping to bare metal, and the use of a special primer-sealer before we could proceed. Even then, years of waxing produced "fish eyes", despite using a special inhibitor, because wax and silicone had reached the pores of the metal. Unless you are a master painter, it is a jo0b best left to a real "pro". 46fordnut 10-09-2010 @ 7:22 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 332 Joined: Oct 2009 what was the color primer they used in these years? maybe thats what im seeing. deluxe40 10-09-2010 @ 9:12 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 413 Joined: Oct 2009 From the numbers you have listed, here is what I think you can say: Your glass was made in January, 1946, so the car was made after that. Your engine was made in the middle of the 1946 model run. If I did the math right, it is the 343,359th engine out of 767, 429 total, or 45% of the way through the run. '46 Fords were produced for almost 20 months, from July of '45 through mid February of '47. Production started very slowly (only 37,856 during 1945) and ramped up, so your car was probably built at least 10 months into the 20 month run, or sometime after July of 1946. TomO 10-09-2010 @ 8:06 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 7253 Joined: Oct 2009 Your "vin" is really a serial number of one of all of the 238 cu in V-8s built. The engine was manufactured in 1946. Ford did not use any identification plates or stamps to define the color, upholstery or options on the vehicle when manufactured in 1946. To find the original color, you will have to do some detective work. The inside of the doors were rarely repainted, the inside of the floor pan is another place to look for a color change, under the hood and trunk hinges, behind the back seat or any other part of the car that would not have been repainted in a normal repaint. Tom 46fordnut 10-07-2010 @ 8:36 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 332 Joined: Oct 2009 99a993639 thats the vin on the paper work and title i have. model number is 69. body is sup dlx fordor i know the 99 (100 horse) is the engine and the (A)is passenger car. if you can help me figure out the rest it would be a big help. Rusty 10-07-2010 @ 7:44 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 21 Joined: Oct 2009 Not really. The engines, like the glass, was shipped from Dearborn to the various assembly plants. The engines, or as we all know transmissions, were numbered before they were loaded for shipment. There is float time in all these parts plus last in - first out scenarios. Neither is really that accurate and there are no records. So at best, it is a guesstimate. trjford8 10-07-2010 @ 7:06 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 4215 Joined: Oct 2009 The vin will give you the month and year of production. That is the only information that you can get from it. 46fordnut 10-07-2010 @ 5:18 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 332 Joined: Oct 2009 ok then what could i use to find out when the car was produced? vin? or is there some other way i dont know of . in the window bug there is the letters (A) and (DG) This message was edited by 46fordnut on 10-7-10 @ 5:20 PM trjford8 10-07-2010 @ 7:57 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 4215 Joined: Oct 2009 The dates on the glass specify when the glass was produced. Cars built in June could have glass that was made in April. Glass dates show you have original glass, but they are not a good indicator of venicle assembly dates.

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