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    vin and body tag question?

     



    i have a 1947 Chevy Coupe, which i'm trying to find the vin number of. This being my first old car i have no clue where it's at, does anyone know? and also i was wondering if someone could decode the body tag for me too what i couldmake out was:

    Style No: 48-1227
    Body No: N 1591
    Trim No: 150
    Paint No: 373

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    Body By Fisher

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    ok new question i found the tag info and it's actually a 1948 but it's titled as a 1947...how do i go about getting that fixed? lol

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    Does the VIN on the car match the VIN on the title????
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    i don't know...i can't find the vin. it's not on the door post like it's supposed to be so i don't know where they got the number from

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    If not on the door jamb or on the end of the door, it should be stamped on the frame rail someplace.... Some of the old chebbie guys might be able to help you with a location.

    Some of the post-war cars were built at the end of one year, then do to sales slumps held over and titled as the next years model. Or possibly once upon a time someone in the court house was one key off in typing the year on the title..... At one time I had an '84 Vette that the year on the title said '83, the year they didn't build Vette's!!!!! After all these years, hard to say. Finding and verifying the VIN IMO is your first step in sorting out the situation.....
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    Vin will also be stamped or sometimes on a tag on the frame by the brake master cylinder, gonna be hard to find but it is there.. door jamb is where the main tag should be... your title should not have EK or EJ on it as the starting charecters, those are 4 a 1947, yours is a '48 so that would be a problem as the vin was taken
    from another car. it should be FJ for passanger stylemaster. as long as those id charecters are correct, I would not worry. my '51 Chevy is titled as a '50, all because of how they titled them back then, titled in the year sold.
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    look on THIS PAGE for the year car you have & the info should be in there...joe
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