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05-20-2017, 05:52 PM | #1 |
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Briggs cowl #159
I have a cowl and gas tank with a Briggs body tag #159 - 6220. What was this car? It is not listed in the new judging book. It is a 30 31 style with a stainless steel cowl band. It was an open car as it has the removable short stations for an open car with a folding windshield.
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05-20-2017, 09:22 PM | #2 |
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Re: Briggs cowl #159
A Deluxe Phaeton.
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05-20-2017, 09:32 PM | #3 |
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Re: Briggs cowl #159
Well crap. Here all the information I have found says a 30-31 Deluxe Phaeton is 180A.
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05-20-2017, 09:50 PM | #4 |
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Re: Briggs cowl #159
I believe the #159 is the Briggs Company body # and the 180A if the Ford number
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05-20-2017, 09:51 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Briggs cowl #159
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05-20-2017, 09:56 PM | #6 |
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05-21-2017, 02:19 AM | #7 | |
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Re: Briggs cowl #159
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The chart on your link says 159 is the serial number prefix. So presumably 6220 is the serial number of the OP cowl. However, the chart shows 3,945 Deluxe Phaetons in 1930 and 2,229 in 1931 for a total of 6,174 (granted it says that’s approximate production). Were the bodies not sequentially numbered or is the chart off by at least 46 units? |
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05-14-2020, 12:30 AM | #8 |
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Re: Briggs cowl #159
This will be undocumented for now but I am working on it...Ford originally gave the new Sports Phaeton the number designation A159. Briggs missed that memo and started stamping out body plates up to about 6500. These plates also had a nice old ford serifed type font. Ford marketing changed the name of the car to Deluxe Phaeton and also the body style number to 180A...But Briggs never changed the designation number...as I said undocumented...urban legend but I'm working on that answer.
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05-14-2020, 04:25 AM | #9 |
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Re: Briggs cowl #159
According to the Ford Motor Company's Assembly Record Type documents, here is the following break-down of the 180-A Deluxe Phaeton's (Briggs Body Tag #159-xxxx) production numbers:
1930 Domestic (USA):3946 Foreign:257 England:10 Canada:152 TOTAL:4365 1931 Domestic (USA):2229 Foreign:463 England:7 Canada:176 TOTAL:2875 1932 Domestic (USA):1 Foreign:219 England:0 Canada:4 TOTAL:224 Grand Total: 7464 Pluck Last edited by Steve Plucker; 05-14-2020 at 05:23 AM. |
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