trucks history
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trucks history
how can i find out the history of my 47 1/2 ton? i cannot run a vin # because it does not have one, only a serial #. I would like to find out what my truck has been through in its life.
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Redwood, please see below....
<table border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td>Truck Weights </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 1/2 ft pickup, 114" WB</td> <td>3050 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 1/2 ft panel, 114" WB </td> <td>3310 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 1/2 ft stake, 114" WB </td> <td>3170 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chassis with Cab, 114" WB </td> <td>2710 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 ft Express (pickup) 122" WB </td> <td>3690 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 ft panel, 122" WB </td> <td>3920 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 1/2 ft stake, 122" WB </td> <td>3835 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chassis with Cab, 122" WB </td> <td>3220 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 ft stake, 134" WB </td> <td>5310 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>12 ft stake, 158" WB </td> <td>5650 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>Dump Truck Chassis 134" WB </td> <td>4335 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chassis with Cab, 134" WB </td> <td>4330 lbs </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chassis with Cab, 158" WB </td> <td>4410 lbs </td></tr></tbody></table>
Total U.S. Ford truck production for 1947: 247,832 Trucks
The VIN numbers on these trucks are located in 3 easily visible places. Those places are, top of driver's side frame rail, anywhere from the steering box mount to the shock mounting area. Next is on the rating plate mounted on the inside of the glove box door, and third is on the top of the bellhousing, viewable when the transmission plate is removed from the floor. Most reliable is the number stamped on the frame, second is the glove box door (since the plate is easily removed) and third is the transmission bellhousing since transmission are often swapped out. The number on the frame will start with a star, then followed by the number, then ending in a star.
Use the table below to help give an idea of what your VIN should look like. Find the ton rating along top row, then find your truck's engine, where the 2 rows intersect is what your VIN should look like. X is used to represent the numbers in the VIN given to the truck, x in parentheses because later trucks had 7 digits in VIN. In Oct of '47 Ford switched to the H series 6 cylinder, when Ford did this the serial numbers changed. Instead of "71G" the numbers switched to "77H". Very few (if any) '47 model trucks had the H series. Note that the VIN decoding only applies to U.S. built trucks.
<table class="" background="" border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td></td> <td>1/2 ton </td> <td>1 ton </td> <td>1 1/2 ton (134" WB)</td> <td>1 1/2 ton (158" WB) </td> <td> School Bus (194" WB)
</td></tr> <tr> <td>6 cyl </td> <td>71GCxxxxx
x) </td> <td>71GYxxxxxx) </td> <td>71GTxxxxxx) </td> <td>71G8Txxxxxx)</td> <td>N/A w/ 6cyl</td></tr> <tr> <td>8 cyl </td> <td>799Cxxxxxx) </td> <td>799Yxxxxxx) </td> <td>799Txxxxxx) </td> <td>798Txxxxxx)</td> <td>794Txxxxxx) </td></tr></tbody></table>6 cylinders have prefix of 71G
8 cylinders have prefix of 79
C = 1/2 ton, Y = 1 ton, T = 1 1/2 ton
VIN range for V8 1,412,709 to 2,071,117
" " 6 326,418 to 414,366 (G series) 512 to 9,038 (H series)
Note that these ranges include passenger car production as well.
Taken from this site...very good resource:
1942-1947 Ford trucks
~Mike
1947 Ford 1.5 Ton DRW
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Oh boy, New York, heh? A couple years ago I tried to run a trace through your NY DVM on a truck I bought. I knew the prior owners name and address, and had the prior commercial registration in hand (NY used to consider the commercial registration as the title). All I wanted was a correct VIN since the commercial registration didn't contain it interestingly. Welp, I must have spend an hour on the phone and learned finally that they won't give squat to anybody without the prior owners written release. Has to do with new privacy laws I learned. Years ago I used to trace titles on everything I bought to see if it was unique in any way. No longer. Good luck, though. Stu
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petey shoes, hi, my truck is still in the dis-assembly stage. it has been stuck there for several years. i live on maltese dr. i used to go to the friday nites at friendlys have not been to dolson ave.
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Sadly enough, unless you know the past owners of your truck, or it came from a small town where people would know it, the history of our trucks is lost. DMV will not release any information to you unless you are law enforcement, this is done to prevent any kind of stalking or such. If you have old registration slips for the truck you might try finding those people and try an work your way back. It's a shame too, it seems trucks usually have such a great history to them. Good luck on your search, hope you can find some history of your truck.
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well i kind of got lucky on the truck i found and hopefully will buy on the right side door you can read the name of the guy who had it on his farm we think it was only used at harvest time because it only has 11000 miles we dont think th odometer rolled by the condition of the truck
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