Does anyone have any Chevrolet documents showing the 1946 body style as a 1947 model truck? The 1946-style trucks might have been registered as 1947 trucks but were they identified as a 1947 model by Chevrolet?
From March 1946 through the end of the 1946 model sales in May 1947, slightly fewer of that model/style of Chevrolet trucks were sold than the number of 1947 Advance-Design series trucks sold between June 1947 and December 1947 (about 247,000 vs 260,000). However, the total production of 1946-style Chevrolet trucks was about 327,000 trucks (1946-style trucks sold in both all of 1946 through May 1947).
It would be interesting to see the codes on door pillar ID plates from early 1947 trucks (the 1946-style trucks sold in 1947).
The codes might start like this:
3EPAxxxxxx
3 = assembly plant code
D = model year
P = 3100 1/2 ton series
A = January month of manufacture
Supposedly, the 1942-1946 model "year" designations (C or D) were used until the start of the Advance-Design production in 1947 (model year designation = E).
Tim
