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bamaj Member
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Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 3:17 pm Post subject: Hood Number |
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243988 what would be the serial number range for this Jeep and date of delivery? If anyone can tell me how I will research it myself. Thanks Jeff _________________ Jeff Loosier
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:14 am Post subject: |
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Anybody got an Idea? _________________ Jeff Loosier
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wesk Site Administrator
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bamaj Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sorry Wes it's on a m38a1. _________________ Jeff Loosier
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wesk Site Administrator
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Hood numbers are issued on a calendar basis. There were no 7 digit hood numbers on M38A1's at all. The last of the 7 digit numbers were used in May 1951. The first M38A1 was built in June 1952. It would have came with a 8 digit hood number.
Someone threw that number on your A1's hood just to have a number.
Is you M38A1's Willys Patent plate behind the passenger seat on the front of the right rear wheel house missing? _________________ Wes K
45 MB, 51 M38, 54 M37, 66 M101A1, 60 CJ5, 76 DJ5D, 47Bantam T3-C & 5? M100
Mjeeps photo album: http://www.willysmjeeps.com/v2/modules.php?set_albumName=Wes-Knettle&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php |
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bamaj Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Ok I guess either it's a made up number or there is another number hidden under the paint. I've bought the jeep and havent picked it up yet only looking at a picture. _________________ Jeff Loosier
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wesk Site Administrator
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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Original contracted hood numbers were painted on at the factory. The lowest hood number your M38A1 could have left Willys with is 209XXXXX. Some civilian painted those numbers on it. They were probably contrived or the ones he had on a different vehicle he had driven while in the military.
Quote: | Is you M38A1's Willys Patent plate behind the passenger seat on the front of the right rear wheel house missing? |
_________________ Wes K
45 MB, 51 M38, 54 M37, 66 M101A1, 60 CJ5, 76 DJ5D, 47Bantam T3-C & 5? M100
Mjeeps photo album: http://www.willysmjeeps.com/v2/modules.php?set_albumName=Wes-Knettle&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php |
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bamaj Member
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Yes the patent plate and data plates are missing it's a late frame so I know it's not an early Jeep. Thanks Wes I was just curious it appears to be made around the same time as mine as close as I can tell. _________________ Jeff Loosier
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45auto Moderator
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Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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Jeff,
Could the M38A1 be a Marine Corps A1? They used a 6 digit number. _________________ Harold W.
MVPA #6833
1945 GPW
1950 CJV-35/U
1951 M38 1952 M38
1962 USMC Contract M38A1
1953 Strick M100 1967 Johnson M416
1968 CJ5 4-Speed 1969 CJ5 V6 |
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bamaj Member
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 4:59 am Post subject: |
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I guess anything is possible or the hood could have been swapped from another Jeep that was. I haven't gotten a good look at the Jeep all over yet just in picture so maybe. _________________ Jeff Loosier
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 7:45 am Post subject: |
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After looking closer at the pictures I think the Jeep isn't a Marine Jeep but who knows if the hood is original or not. _________________ Jeff Loosier
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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After looking I think you are right I think it's an A. What does that tell you? _________________ Jeff Loosier
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