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04-30-2019, 08:21 AM | #1 |
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1935 Cabriolet body number
I'm trying to determine the body number on my cabriolet. My car was assembled in early February 1935. The body number would be placed on the firewall from Murray or Briggs earlier because the body would have to be shipped to a Ford assembly plant. Does anyone have a 35 Cabriolet with the original body number plate? It might give me a starting point to somewhat accurately determine my body number.
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04-30-2019, 08:53 AM | #2 |
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Re: 1935 Cabriolet body number
Wouldn't the frame/transmission number really be the "more" accurate number to use for that? Van Pelts has the engine number sequence for production runs and dates.
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04-30-2019, 08:59 AM | #3 |
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Re: 1935 Cabriolet body number
One way is to determine the total number of the body style made, then divide by the number of weeks of model year production. That would give you an average production per week. Determine the number of weeks into production your car body was made and then multiply that number by the average production per week.
In reality production ramps up over a few months with more and more bodies made each month at the start of the production year and ramps down quickly toward the end of production year. A Cabriolet body could get stored until being able to be reached for body drop. Depending upon where it was stored at the factory and the availability for Ford factory to get at the body, plus the amount of orders for the body style. So it is possible in 1935 to have a body with many early features on a frame with a number past the early part of production. |
04-30-2019, 04:03 PM | #4 |
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