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Originally Posted by TJ
DR means "Department Registration" number. Those numbers were usually found in the left front door jamb on a plate that that was riveted in the jamb. It was a number issued by the DMV when the original numbers could not be located. It's possible that the number could have also been placed on the engine as prior to 1955 DMV used engine numbers in California.
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That is interesting. Some years ago I acquired a pair of '32-'34 Ford Model B 4-cylinder engines out of California that were stamped with DR-xxxxxx numbers and nobody has ever come up with an explanation as to the origin of such numbers.