Originally Posted by Mac3x3
Hello all, I'm new to the Stovebolt trucks. I was lucky to buy two of them last week, I know one is a 1946 but the other is titled as a 1945, I found to body tag and the number is 21DPE1036.
21= Janesville, WI
DPE= May 1946
1036= 35th off the line
how could it be the 35th off the line and be built in May of 1946? or am I just all messed up?

Thanks


the first question has been answered regarding his "Body Tag" information. and I think we all knew what he was asking, so I don't think that we/he was confused.


Originally Posted by red58
Kirk, regardless of the way you think of the information, I believe you'll find that any jurisdiction has a line on the title labeled "vehicle identification number", spelled out or abbreviated, capitalized or lower cased, and depending on the year of manufacture and year of title issuance, that identification number might be the original engine number, or what GM called a "vehicle number" in the era discussed [but you call "build tag #'s and Letters" for some reason, although GM called it a "serial number plate"], or the modern federal government defined "VIN" ... all good, we pretty much know what's being discussed whether it's called a vin, a VIN, or a serial number

Bill


You are all right when it comes to defining what we have on our trucks, how's that for being confusing? Bill has it nailed, it's what the "Jurisdiction" accepts as the V.I.N. period! Many DMV'S are still looking for the serial numbers stamped on the frame, they can be clueless when dealing with trucks that are forty years older than they are.

BTW one of the reasons we tend to call the "Serial Identification Plate" a V.I.N. is that it's a Identification Plate on our vehicles and it immediately tells people what we are talking about when asking questions.