Ok, I'm lost. What years did they....?

Posted by Tom in Indiana [216.249.66.74] on Saturday, March 06, 2010 at 06:18:42 :

One FFPW I am looking at has a totally different dash layout from another one that I'm also considering buying. One of them is a '54. That, I know for sure. The other one, I have no idea what year it is, and neither does the owner. The '54 has just the speedometer and one instrument cluster (plus the hole somebody cut in the dash beside the speedo), but the other PW has one on each side of the speedometer, with none in the middle of the dash. Is there a way to tell, roughly, what year the truck is by just looking at the dash? The VIN tag is so rotten that I could only make out a few numbers, which I THINK were 4372. Also, if I buy both trucks, is there going to be a major stumbling block in swapping drivetrains, steering boxes, and so on? It looks like I'll be the proud owner of two FFPW's in a week or so, and I want to make sure I don't end up with two trucks I can't swap parts (mechanically) between.

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• Re: Ok, I'm lost. What years did they....? - Daryl in Oz 18:57:11 03/06/2010
  • Re: "No" 1951 - TGP (IL) 19:38:47 03/06/2010
    • Re: "No" 1951 - Daryl in Oz 02:03:40 03/07/2010
• A bunch more pics here. - Tom in Indiana 07:55:18 03/06/2010
  • Tom, those are both Power Wagons - Eric B. 11:32:18 03/07/2010
    • Re: Tom, those are both Power Wagons - Tim Holloway 12:45:13 03/07/2010
      • Sorry, generalizing again! - Eric B. 13:40:56 03/07/2010
        • Re: Sorry, generalizing again! - Tim Holloway 13:51:44 03/07/2010
• Re: Ok, I'm lost. What years did they....? - Dana (in Lancaster) 07:48:07 03/06/2010
  • Do they both have hoods with horizontal louvers? - Chriscase 09:13:29 03/06/2010
    • Re: Do they both have hoods with horizontal louvers? - Tom in Indiana 13:22:54 03/06/2010
• Re: Ok, I'm lost. What years did they....? - Tom in Indiana 06:20:25 03/06/2010
  • Pre 1951 = first picture - Dan Shockley 06:23:30 03/06/2010

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