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04-26-2019 @ 8:45 AM

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Thank you. I'll see what they can tell me and let you and others know.

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05-14-2019 @ 8:17 AM

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I contacted the research center as suggested. They had an answer for me within a week. Here is what they said.

automobile specialists who has provided the following answer:
The Benson Ford Research Center does not have production records for the year and model of your vehicle. A fire in 1970 destroyed most of our production records leaving only a limited range of years and models.
Additionally, we do not have vehicle assembly plant records from most Ford plants. In early manufacturing years it is known that the Ford plants did not track their vehicles by serial number (frame number) and no information is known to exist about 1946 assembly records.
The V8 Ford engines were built on two production lines at the Rouge Engine Plant in Dearborn Michigan. After successful testing they were stamped with a numerical serial number on the top front of the transmission case. They were then shipped to the final assembly plants, where they would be placed on a partly assembled vehicle frame. At that time the engine/ transmission serial number was stamped on the top of the frame rail near the front cross member with two or three prefix digits added such as 99A in 1946. This number is referred to as a “frame number”.
The Benson Ford Research Center does have production records from the Rouge Engine Plant. The records indicate engine serial number 766379 was one of 1761 engines built on one production line December 18, 1945. The serial number range for the day was 764812 to 766573. It is generally believed that an engine would have been installed at the final assembly plant within 3 months of shipping by the engine plant.
Would my car, assuming it was assembled in Dec at the earliest, still have the early parts installed from the 1942-45 time frame, which it does. I guess they had more NOS stuff laying around than I imagined. Anyone have any other thoughts?

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