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Hello all,
Yesterday I picked up two more m-35's from MCLB Barstow and one has me puzzled as to it's identity. It is an earlier deuce and has only one number stamped in the frame rail, "M35002". It's stamped in the same font style as the frame vin normally is. This is also not in the normal location but up by the front spring mount instead. There are no markings where the vin normally is and no grinding marks suggesting removal
. There are also no markings further back where I've seen frame dates stamped on some 60's deuces. I blasted the rail to clean metal to see all this.
The data plate isn't much help either. The ID# box has "M-35002 4D5363" and the contract number box has "SCSMS APR.87 CONV" which I believe has to do with the bolt-on shelter in the bed or it's conversion from gas to diesel.
The truck's body is still all Gasser style with a good gasser cab and fenders. I think the bed is also gasser since it has no recess for the trailer plug and the rear lights are mounted outboard on the bed rather than on frame brackets.
I need to decipher this number to get a year of maunufacture for registration purposes. I searched the site with no luck. I've never had an M-35 that was older than mid-60's so I do not know much about the earlier ones. If anyone knows what I have here, please enlighten me. Thanks.
Yesterday I picked up two more m-35's from MCLB Barstow and one has me puzzled as to it's identity. It is an earlier deuce and has only one number stamped in the frame rail, "M35002". It's stamped in the same font style as the frame vin normally is. This is also not in the normal location but up by the front spring mount instead. There are no markings where the vin normally is and no grinding marks suggesting removal
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The data plate isn't much help either. The ID# box has "M-35002 4D5363" and the contract number box has "SCSMS APR.87 CONV" which I believe has to do with the bolt-on shelter in the bed or it's conversion from gas to diesel.
The truck's body is still all Gasser style with a good gasser cab and fenders. I think the bed is also gasser since it has no recess for the trailer plug and the rear lights are mounted outboard on the bed rather than on frame brackets.
I need to decipher this number to get a year of maunufacture for registration purposes. I searched the site with no luck. I've never had an M-35 that was older than mid-60's so I do not know much about the earlier ones. If anyone knows what I have here, please enlighten me. Thanks.