Please help in decoding tag
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Please help in decoding tag
Hello,
This is my first post and I hope to learn more about the F1 truck I recently acquired.
Can anyone help me decode this? Thanks!
F1R1HM75206 serial
12MKS952 production code
M color
This is my first post and I hope to learn more about the F1 truck I recently acquired.
Can anyone help me decode this? Thanks!
F1R1HM75206 serial
12MKS952 production code
M color
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Hey Eric, Welcome to the forum! We're going to need to see pictures of your new truck soon. 
So when you say help decoding your tag, I assume you mean the one in the glove box, correct?
It appears you have a very late production 1951 F1 equipped with the 239 V8 engine, built in Highland Park, MI, on December 12, 1951. Unit numbers started with 10001, so to be over 75000, there was a bunch of trucks built at Highland Park that year. Glove box tags weren't put into place until mid-September, '51, so that's another clue you have a later production.
Color Code M was Meadow Green.
Hope this helps.
So when you say help decoding your tag, I assume you mean the one in the glove box, correct?
It appears you have a very late production 1951 F1 equipped with the 239 V8 engine, built in Highland Park, MI, on December 12, 1951. Unit numbers started with 10001, so to be over 75000, there was a bunch of trucks built at Highland Park that year. Glove box tags weren't put into place until mid-September, '51, so that's another clue you have a later production.
Color Code M was Meadow Green.
Hope this helps.
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Beautiful truck! Congrats and welcome!
Any chance you could post a picture of the tag that info came from? Some of it is puzzling.
I agree with Wayne it's a late 51, but if I remember right your hood trim looks to be 52 deluxe? It may have been swapped or Highland Park started using it a few weeks early.
Tim
Any chance you could post a picture of the tag that info came from? Some of it is puzzling.
I agree with Wayne it's a late 51, but if I remember right your hood trim looks to be 52 deluxe? It may have been swapped or Highland Park started using it a few weeks early.
Tim
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1957 & 1959 Passenger Car "outie" hubcaps. 1958 was the same hubcap, but painted red in the center.
Wheels have also been swapped, originally came with "innie" wheels/hubcaps thru 1965.
Wheels have also been swapped, originally came with "innie" wheels/hubcaps thru 1965.
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12M = Assembled December 12, 1950.
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A few things I see, the front fenders are the larger wheel opening type, not F1. The bed is the early raised panel style. There's a lot of things that have been changed, and the hood/deluxe hood trim is very likely one of them. The drivers door does not have the lock in it, nor does it have the bright vent window division bar, all items that should accompany the hood trim as part of the "Extra Cab" package. I'd like to know what the title says, and if the frame number matches.
Bill, with all due respect, and I'm glad to see you back with us again, please see my post above about the build date, and the rationale for the 1951 build date. It can't be '50. This all comes out of the data decode info in the Chassis Parts Catalog.
Bill, with all due respect, and I'm glad to see you back with us again, please see my post above about the build date, and the rationale for the 1951 build date. It can't be '50. This all comes out of the data decode info in the Chassis Parts Catalog.
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I'm just staring at the door handle that doesn't sag - and a little envious!
The serial number is a surprise. I don't think I've seen one over 35000 so this 75000 is way out of my ballpark.
It's great to see your posts, Bill.
The serial number is a surprise. I don't think I've seen one over 35000 so this 75000 is way out of my ballpark.
It's great to see your posts, Bill.
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Tim, with serial numbers starting with 10,001, that would make approx, 65,000 serial numbers going through the plant that year. Who knows if it's all trucks, but let's presume it is. That breaks down to 5416/mo. average, or 180 a day in a 30 working day month. It doesn't sound too unreasonable, I don't think. We seen to have a lot of HM or HP assembly codes in the database, and given their proximity to the rust belt, that's a lot of survivors, which makes one believe there was a lot of supply.
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