more likely that number is the engine number, commonly used as the title vin back then, check for an engine number - if the engine has been changed the title should have been changed at the same time, although most folks didn't bother to do that

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics