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Old 06-10-2015, 12:53 PM   #7
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Default Re: Mercury Model Numbers

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Originally Posted by rockfla View Post
@Bruce Lancaster

Do you know if the first digit after the "A" denotes the month of manufacture, for example 99A100006 "might" be Oct 1938 and 99A3000756 "might" be Dec 1938, etc. etc.???
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Originally Posted by rotorwrench View Post
There is always a hyphen after the three digit prefix. FoMoCo did have a code built into the numbers following the beginning prefix. When you look at the first page of a chassis parts book, the beginning code started with the wheel, hub, & drum grouping in the 1000 range of four digit numbers. A person needs the parts catalogs to realize what all groupings there are in the early Ford numbering sequence. FoMoCo changed this system beginning in the late 40s but they still used the same sequence groupings. They just added to the prefixes to denote the year and model codes.
Whirleybird.....I know the numbers of which you speak AFTER the hyphen. I was curious as to where he got the -100006 and the -3000756 numbers from. Never seen a suffix # that large. DD

PS......Are you old enough to remember "Whirleybirds"? DD
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