Your unit serial number may or may not be the "VIN". The unit serial number is what would go on the Car No. line where you say you will put your "VIN". Most states used the engine number as the "VIN" on the title rather than the unit serial number. In the 'engine number' states the "VIN" was not displayed anywhere on the body or frame.

Your unit serial number would depend on several bits of information. First would be where it was built, the model number, the month it was built then the sequential number in which it was produced. Serial number information. For example the unit serial number on my '38 is 5HB05XXXXXXX (with X being the sequential production number) Mine decodes to 5=Kansas City, HB=Master, 05=Built in May of 1938 then the sequential number. Attached is a photo of the remnants of my original data plate with the OEM stampings.
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Last edited by Tiny; 01/04/2018 4:49 PM.
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