[Player]

I'm trying to read the partial VIN in the pics below. Best I can tell it seems to read "9F1 45 6."

What I'm calling 9 and 6 are both pretty rough. What do you think.

[Jay H 237]

It looks that way to me. Ford did start doing partial and full VINs on cars starting in 68 on the motors. Only K codes were done before that. My San Jose 68 has it's full VIN stamped on the motor and it matches my VIN so I know the 289 in my car is original to it.


Depending on plant and who stamped it it may read two ways that I can see by looking at it,

9 - last digit of model year (1969)
F - assembly plant (Dearborn)
1 - body code, short for "01" coupe
456 - last 3 digits of VIN

or it could be,

9 - last digit of model year
F - assembly plant
1x45x6 - sequential VIN number but for some reason the 2nd and 5th digits (x) didn't get stamped into the block.

[Veronica]

Hello. I think that I would go with that 69 Dearborn with a sequential number of 1X45X6 because of the way it's spaced .

[Player]

That looks to be accurate Veronica. Thanks both of you! That means that the engine is original.

I've also determined that the transmission is from a '69 Ford...trying to determine if it's original. And I have the differential tag which seems to coincide with it being original also (from everything I've deciphered)...still trying to determine what all of it means

Thanks again!