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Originally Posted by redmodelt
Thanks 29FordGuy for posting this question. I was wrong about my body number it's 199-5458. That's what I get for going on memory!
Anyway, Using 29ForGuys date he sent me, give me a working point to estimate when my body was made. Using the information given by my fuzzy math tells me my body would have been made sometime late Aug or early Sept.
Yes it would help to have the frame number, but that is not the case here. The Frame is too rusted to find much of anything.
The engine in the car is Oct of 29 so it is possible that the body was assembled out of sequence and the engine is the original one for the car. The only history I have is the car was brought here from Minn. some time later in it's life. Where it was bought is not known.
Joop. re the 400A I have not forgotten about getting photos for you.
MarkG
The Model A Ford Works
Portland OR
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Do you have a Gas tank Date by chance? Might be to late of a body but being that close to the end of gas tank stampings...you never know.
IF the body was assembled to the frame that you have, you can go to my website and try to key the frame out which will give you an aproxamite date of construction.
I think some of the chassis were assembled at the Ford plant at Dearborn then they were taken to the Briggs and Murray plants for assembly OR Briggs and Murray sent the completed bodies to each one of the USA assembly plants around the nation and they were assembled there...if that was the case, then the "numbers" got mixed in the shuffel.
Pluck