OK, I just threw in the Peanutbutter to get your attention.
I am looking for information on where your Panel truck was built.
Since the Panel Body is so different for the other trucks, were they built at one, two or more plants.
My 48 has a Vin but no indicator of the plant. I also can't find the Firewall stamp that has the regular trucks abuzz.

Thanks
Penn Peanutbutter (_l_)

 

PPB, you're not sitting naked on the copier again are you?

 

What do you mean by "my 48 has a vin but no indicator of the plant"?

The plant indicator is in the VIN. It's the fifth and sixth characters in the VIN. Both of my Panels have the VIN. My '51 Panel was made in HM (Highland Park, MI) and my '52 Panel was made in RM (Richmond, CA).

As far as I know and can tell, each plant was capable of assembling a Panel truck. I am pretty sure that some of the plants produced more Panels than others. As with any Ford truck, there isn't much history available about exact production numbers for each plant of each model truck.

Find your VIN and look at the 5/6 characters. Then refer to this link for decoding the plant: http://www.bonusbuilt.com/decoder.html

Ilya

 

(In my best Homer Simpson voice) Hmmmmm...p-e-a-n-u-t b-u-t-t-e-r...

Crunchy or smooth???

 

Plant is listed on the 51/52's but not in the VIN on the 48-50's, at least most of the time. Occasionally, the VIN plate will read 98RC 123456 ?? where the question marks will have letters such as DL for Dallas, CH for Chicago, etc. Most do not include this but some do.

The trucks missing the firewall stamping seem to be 48's for the most part. Not sure if firewall stampings started in 1949 or were they simply mandated by Ford for all plants in 1949? Was firewall stamping done done by some plants in 48 and not done by others? Still collecting data but I will follow this one closely and include results with the truck list.

I've seen the firewall stamping on cars from 1950 so I suspect it was done on the panel trucks as well.

 

Smooth

Peanutbutter was on my mind this morning because I had just finished putting some on the tree out back, it's that time of the year.

 

I've heard of peanut butter & jelly, penaut butter & honey, and peanut butter & banana sandwiches, but I've never heard of a peanut butter & tree sandwich. That must take a huge slice of bread

Bobby

 

First, Dick, you always make me a little nervous

Second, from what I have been able to determine, Ford never followed any strict assembly rules. I have had trucks from all the Bonus Built trucks, 15 at last count, and some had the number on the firewalls, some didn't. Didn't matter if it was a '48 or 52. Some '48-50s had the Magic Aire heater, according to the books I have the Magic Aire heater was offered in '51 & 2. Some had square tool trays others had the rounded ones, again, didn't matter if it was a '48 or '52. I had four different F-2-3 boxes, 3 had round wheel well, one had oval wheel wells. There seems to be no set rules, each plant seemed to use parts that were a little different. I think Barry mentioned a while back that Ford might have done this to help differentiate between the plants and they also jobbed out a lot of parts to different shops who might have used slightly different drawings. Who knows? That's what keeps these rust buckets interesting.

 

How about Peanutbutter and squirrels?
Peanutbutter spread on the side of the tree facing the bathroom window, One Modle 61 Winchester .22, primer only shells, 17 grain bullet.
Squirrels go Bye-Bye, no more Winter Nesting Problems.

Back to trucks, I thought (dangerous) that mabe since the panels were so different, that they might have limited production facilities.

 

OK Dick, I understand the squirrel/pb thing, but I'm really curious - what does the 'logo' mean? (_l_) When I saw it I had a flashback to younger days.......

 

That means a normal one, (__l__) is a fat one.
This is a lot less exciting than the photocopy days, but safer.
By-the-by if needed an "o" can replace the vertical line, if you wish to annoint someone with a Tilte.