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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 26 | I am hoping I am just not looking in the right place?
Thanks | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | drivers door pillar - number might also be stamped on the drivers frame rail near the steering box - but the vin won't tell you if it was a Cameo, they didn't have a special indicator in the number
Bill | | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 26 | drivers door pillar - number might also be stamped on the drivers frame rail near the steering box - but the vin won't tell you if it was a Cameo, they didn't have a special indicator in the number
Bill I don't even see a recessed area for the little vin plate? Did a 55 not have one? Thanks | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | Don't remember if the plate area was recessed, but there should be at least a couple of rivet holes where the ID plate used to be. It's easy to build up a fake Cameo; all that's necessary is the fiberglass bedsides, a big-window cab, and some creative tinkering with sheet metal. I had a friend in the body shop business in California who built one that would pass all but a really detailed inspection. From 25 feet away, it looked like the real thing.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 26 | Don't remember if the plate area was recessed, but there should be at least a couple of rivet holes where the ID plate used to be. It's easy to build up a fake Cameo; all that's necessary is the fiberglass bedsides, a big-window cab, and some creative tinkering with sheet metal. I had a friend in the body shop business in California who built one that would pass all but a really detailed inspection. From 25 feet away, it looked like the real thing.
Jerry Well I have a real one, but I'm looking for the vin plate? | | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 | Look for a small stainless plate spot welded to the upper door pillar. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | can't say what the engine # means, but the truck didn't come with a V8 because there's no leading V on the vin
H255L = [6 cyl equipped] 1/2 ton, 2nd series, 1955, from the Los Angeles plant - the 7,998th one made there as numbering started at 001001
Bill | | | | | Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Dec 2007 Posts: 26 | can't say what the engine # means, but the truck didn't come with a V8 because there's no leading V on the vin
H255L = [6 cyl equipped] 1/2 ton, 2nd series, 1955, from the Los Angeles plant - the 7,998th one made there as numbering started at 001001
Bill Thanks for the information. I am not really concerned about it not being a V-8 as it will be totally made into a driver truck for my wife. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | According to an old Chilton repair manual I have, a "D" suffix on a V-8 engine number indicates a 1958-63 283 cubic inch engine.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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