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| | | | Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 | I got the owner of the truck to send me a pic of the data tag on the driver's door frame.... It tells all: http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv44/camarohunter8/Red%20Truck/xxx4%20-%20Copy_zpsyk4ymd0c.jpg16,000 lbs Max Gross Weight Serial number 5UYG Translates to: Model 6500 or 6500S 2 ton 179" wheelbase Built July 1951 (a '51 model) in KC, Mo. Powered by a 105hp 235 cuin Loadmaster inline 6 Looks like there were 23,850 total units built This is a BIG bolt, Brothers and Sisters.....
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 |
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 | | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,549 | Congratulations. Not as many long wheelbase 6500 series trucks floating around, as there are 6400 series trucks. That's the only difference in the two, is the wheel base. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,236 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,236 | Where did you come up with the production numbers? Mike B  | | | | | Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 | Where did you come up with the production numbers? Mike B I might be wrong, Mike. But I took the last number in the line to be total production, tho it might only be a partial. That part of the chart is not very easy to understand (at least it's not to me, DOH!). | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,236 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,236 | I believe those numbers are values, not production numbers. To the best of my knowledge there are no production figures available for our trucks. Mike B | | | | | Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 | I believe those numbers are values, not production numbers. To the best of my knowledge there are no production figures available for our trucks. Mike B What kind of values, Mike? What kind of value would be 23,850? I just thought it HAD to be a prod number especially since it was in the prod column....But then again, I've been wrong many times before.... | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 | If it is a 6500 series, there were:
- around 4800 made in 1950 (1% of trucks produced) and
- around 9000 made in 1952 (3% of trucks produced) and
- around 8400 made in 1953 (3% of trucks produced).
Those number are supposedly for calendar year, not for model year.
I have not seen any other Advance-Design year's production numbers. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | that site is an appraisal site, the last columns [S, 2,4,6,8,10] as explained are values, the "PROD" column is blank [unknown, as Mike sez] .... so yes, $23,850 would be "appraised value" for a condition 10 truck Bill | | | | | Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2016 Posts: 83 | that site is an appraisal site, the last columns [S, 2,4,6,8,10] as explained are values, the "PROD" column is blank [unknown, as Mike sez] .... so yes, $23,850 would be "appraised value" for a condition 10 truck Bill Oh, ok! I see! I understand now. Thanks very much Bill for setting me straight! The chart makes perfect sense now. | | |
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