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O.k! Here's the big ol' tomatoe all cleaned up! First bath in over 15 years! Can anyone make out what the bumper number is on the driverside of the bumper? Theres just enough there that someone who is familiar with the numbers scheme may be able to make a good educated guess as to what the...

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Best ways to Where should I look for the bumber number... Is it the number on the driverside or passengerside of the bumper? I can still see the air pressure paintings. They appear to have been put on after the last repaint though (If it had...

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Best ways to Researc I think you've hit on the thing.... I'm still in "Matching #'s" mode, which is what is driving me to try to find all this out. I'm mainly trying to determine is were there alot of 530b's made or only a handfull (less than 100)? If...

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Best ways to Research your D So any other suggestions other than: 1. Sanding for bumper and hood numbers. 2. Talking to previous Fire departments/owners It almost seems like someone (if they had the data plates from an old one could swap the tags over to...

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Best ways to Research your Deuce I've got pictures of all the data plates at http:\\www.letsgettwisted.com\530b\ It's got data plates all over it, how do you tell if it's a military data plate or civilian data plate or is there such a thing? Neil

Re: RE: Re: RE: Best ways to Research your Deuce Thank you for this information... This is excellent info for those of us who have very little experience with MV's or even the ways of the Military in general... So this begs me to ask the question " What is the best way to "Authenticate" the...

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Best ways to Research your Deuce Am I correct in assuming (yes.. I know what it makes me and u when we Assume things) that with this truck being a '53 model that it DID have a military number issued to it at one point and that it wasn't some sort of extra stock that...

Re: RE: Re: RE: Best ways to Research your Deuce Thanks for the info on the Army Airforce split... As I mentioned in the original post, this truck happens to have a sticker on the ceiling of the cab that indicates the signal light codes for an air strip.... Do all Fire trucks have this or...

Re: RE: Best ways to Research your Deuce I know the local fire departments that it served by paint on the doors. I'm really hoping to find out where it spent the majority of it's service life in the military. I believe it was at an Airforce base in Illinois somplace, but that's only because...

Sorry guys... the link was a dead link... But it's fixed now. (darn explorer and their case sensitive url's!) :oops:

Howdy all! As many of you may already know, I've recently acquired my first Deuce. I'm needing help researching this and thought this might be a good avenue to help others out in finding the best methods and/or shortcuts to researching their deuce's they may have. I'm honostly up in the air as...