I don't know if the date stamped on the cab of is the build date, but it's good enough for me.



Happy Birthday old girl. Maybe I'll get you facelift for your next birthday.

 

Too bad you couldn't preserve that!

 

I've seen the ink stamp date before on 48 trucks. I grabbed a pic of one once and it's a different style than yours. I'm sure that varied by assembly plant. It corresponds close with the firewall stamping build date code (one day off) so I'm thinking it's pretty reliable to determine your truck's birthday. Very cool.

 

Happy Belated Birthday to your truck!


here is a pictures of an early 48 F-3 with the date painted just under the firewall tag. I guess I should have taken a better close up picture of it.

 

I have to wonder why they would go to the trouble?