Engine # vs. Frame #

[fixitphil]

According to fordgarage.com Henry Ford used engine numbers as VIN numbers from the factory (as my Model A is). I still want a listing of where my 1931 Sport Coupe body was built. I found the frame stamped number. I can'seem to locate a web site that gives me that info.

[RawhideKid]

Do you have the number off the body at the front of the drivers seat? If you do, there will be some letters before the numbers and this is the lettering for where it was built.

Here is the best reference that I know of to find that assembly plant info. http://www.plucks329s.org/bos.htm

[Joe K]

Steve Plucker has started a study of Ford Assembly Plants and their abbreviations (commonly found stamped into the center cross-member of the Model A body) There has been some discussion of these stampings here on this forum (search Assembly Plant Abbreviations.) Meanwhile there is an MAFCA study which is taking this further.

Check out Pluck's page at http://www.plucks329s.org/studies/studies.htm. Further down you'll find:

Body Assembly Plant Number and Letter Code Study
Looking at and recording the body assembly plant numbers and trying to identify the Model A Ford Assembly Plant codes used. Thse numbers were stamped into the bodies of Model A cars. Contact: Dave Sturges 14505 MacClintock Drive, Glenwood, MD 21738-9626 Phone (xxx)xxx-xxxx Email Dave (link)

Joe K

[Steve Plucker]

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Originally Posted by fixitphil

According to fordgarage.com Henry Ford used engine numbers as VIN numbers from the factory (as my Model A is). I still want a listing of where my 1931 Sport Coupe body was built. I found the frame stamped number. I can'seem to locate a web site that gives me that info.

There is NO listings as to where your Model A was built. However, if you have the ORIGINAL paperwork from the assembly plant, which a lot of times shows the engine number of the vehicle sold to the dealer, AND if that engine number matches yours, then you have the assembly plant for where your vehicle was built...even the dealers Bill of Sale may tell you also but not always.

Another way is to see what the assembly plant code is on the body's front cross sill. There you will see some letters and numbers...the letters coresspond to the assembly plant BUT sometimes those markings are not there.

Review this document: http://www.plucks329s.org/pdf/studie...ND%20CODES.pdf

Suposedly there was a list of all Model A/AA engines in the Ford Rountunda which told us just WHERE each engine was shipped to to be assembled into a Model A/AA chassis. However, and unfortunatly for all of us, those records were destroyed in a fire.

Pluck