I picked up a 1932 ford pickup(Model B) with no title. Hagerty wants some type of numbers to link the car to me be insuring. Everything I read says I can find the number on top of the left frame infront on the fire wall. I looks like the fender may be covering up the frame numbers. Maybe u can see the frame numbers on a car, just not a truck. any ideas?
The firewall and fenders on cars and trucks are the same so any number will be in almost the same place with no coverup. The number is repeated on the transmission bellhousing(if trans is original to that car), and on the top of the frame rail at the rear crossmember.
thanks for the insight on car & truck fenders. at least it makes me feel like i'm not on a wild goose chase
You are looking for Star B-5,000,000 star. Number will be in low 5 millions...unless it is the very rare V8 pickup or swapped to V8 frame. Then *18-(1--220,000)* If engine is there...B number is also on flat horizontal part of flywheel housing above starter drive.
A few years ago I looked at 5 Deuce frames in the same day and this is the only one with the number was still legible. Thanks to this frame I new exactly where to look. You can see that it's inside the firewall foot and not covered up by any sheet metal. Close to the edge of the flange. PS I've read that the number is stamped in 2 other places on the frame that are under the body but this frame only has it in one spot.
Engines and hence chassis were numbered from one up. B numbers started at 5 million as an approximate continuation of the A number series (early ones began with AB), while V8's began with one in 1932 as this was a new series. V8 #1 engine is still in the Ford museum, so a wild one could have any number from 18-2 to 18-somewhere in the 200,000 range. This series of numbers (the 221 family) ran on until 1942! Im other wors, pure serial numbers. The engine completed after #2 was engine #3, and so on.
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