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Need some help please, on my 67 coupe, passenger side on frame in front of Right rear wheel there is a yellow stencil can't make it all out but looking upside down I can read { 39002-00 either a 3 or 8 ] then above it [S 4-30/67] there are more but can't read them can anyone tell me the purpose for this , Thanks.
The frame stencil shows the GM part number and frame revision. Typically the date that the frame was pulled is hand written with white crayon. Here is a pic of a '65 stencil.
Need some help please, on my 67 coupe, passenger side on frame in front of Right rear wheel there is a yellow stencil can't make it all out but looking upside down I can read { 39002-00 either a 3 or 8 ] then above it [S 4-30/67] there are more but can't read them can anyone tell me the purpose for this , Thanks.
That painted stencil was applied in '67 at the A.O. Smith frame plant across the river in Granite City, Illinois; it identified the frame part number, change number, and manufacture date. On a '67 it appeared like this:
67's didn't use a hand-scrawled "pull date" on the frame.
Thanks JohnZ this is perfect, just like what Ive got, now I can figure out the rest of it. Done more sanding and its almost totally ledgeable and it is white letters, thanks alot
Great information. How do you determine the frame date code? I have a picture of my original frame and the date code is too hard to read.
Ed
If you have Quanta make it, they've made thousands of them - just tell them your VIN and they'll figure a reasonable stencil date that makes sense with it. The A.O. Smith-Granite City frame plant did the original stencil job just before they loaded the frame on the delivery truck to take it across the river to St. Louis.
Is the stencil on the drivers side or passenger side John (63) I thought it was drivers side but perhaps it was because I was looking at an inverted frame picture?
Frame stencil
