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01-21-2024, 08:39 PM | #1 |
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Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
Would some kind soul please post a close-up photo of his Murray sedan's body number plate showing the numbers themselves? My Murray Town Sedan is missing this plate. The wood flooring had been replaced before I bought the car. Consequently, any Murray identifying numbers branded/stamped into the wood crosspieces are gone. I am replacing the missing body plate with a repo and would like guidance how the numbers were placed onto/into this plate: Painted? Stamped? Neatly and orderly painted/stamped or haphazardly like on the engine number pad?
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01-22-2024, 02:24 AM | #2 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
Might be the same, this one is for 29 station wagon;
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01-22-2024, 10:04 AM | #3 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
Thank you, "Red". I found similar station wagon Murray tags on-line, but I am looking specifically to determine whether the 1929 Murray Town Sedan body style number (155-A) was also included, or just the "155" minus the letter. That's why it would be helpful to me if someone could post a photo of his Murray sedan's body tag, whether it be 155-A, -B, -C or -D. That will answer my question so that I can "fake" this new tag properly. As the body tag is not a legally defining number, only a factory reference, no transgression against the law is being committed here by re-stamping a new body tag.
So, any 155-x Murray sedan owners out there with an original body tag on the firewall? Marshall |
01-22-2024, 11:49 AM | #4 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
It looks like the prefix on the tag would be M601.
Check out these links. https://www.mafca.com/downloads/Tech...dy_Numbers.pdf https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showt...6085&showall=1 |
01-22-2024, 11:58 AM | #5 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
Thanks, Bob C. I think this is just what I need. Interesting that "M601" would precede the body number instead of the 155 body style designation number. 'Must have meant something to the folks at Murray, though.
Boy, I sure do miss Marco and his expertise on this site!!! Come back to us, Marco! We need you now more than ever!!! Marshall |
01-22-2024, 02:22 PM | #6 |
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01-22-2024, 02:46 PM | #7 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
"Painted? Stamped? Neatly and orderly painted/stamped or haphazardly like on the engine number pad?"
Your question was how they were applied not about the actual body number, so I posted a sample of a body tag that I found. Briggs used their factory body number not Fords. Don't know about Murray.
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01-22-2024, 04:54 PM | #8 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
Yes, thank you, "Red". Your posting and photo answered a couple nagging questions for me.
Now to find a local trophy shop that doesn't charge $5.00 per character to engrave. That could get expensive REAL fast with 3 (body designator) + 5 (chosen body number) characters to engrave on the repo plate. M. Last edited by Marshall V. Daut; 01-23-2024 at 11:00 AM. |
01-22-2024, 05:06 PM | #9 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
the plates would be stamped not engraved, that would take too long, the originals I have seen were stamped
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01-22-2024, 06:41 PM | #10 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
Yes, I'll request stamping rather than engraving. Thank you.
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01-23-2024, 04:36 PM | #11 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
We have a local sign shop that makes the tags for $5 per plate. Give me a call. 740 658 3495.
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01-24-2024, 06:52 PM | #12 |
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01-24-2024, 10:51 PM | #13 |
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Re: Attention: Murray sedan owners! Body plate...
We have a local sign shop that makes the tags for $5 per plate. Give me a call. 740 658 3495.
Thanks for the offer, but we just dropped off the plate today at a local trophy shop for imprinting the number. Their $15 quote seems fair to me, although that $5.00 figure you quote sounds better. M. Last edited by Marshall V. Daut; 01-24-2024 at 11:39 PM. |
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