Can you get more reliable than that? According to the shop manual: Looking around various websites gives all sorts of diverging information, so I thought it best to utilize the 1962/1963 Ford Shop Manual. I had no clue until now this car was built on a Friday.ĭSO is an acronym for Domestic Special Order. The number is the day of the month, so my Galaxie was built on June 7. The letter is for the month A for January, B for February, and so forth. Having a red interior with a champagne colored car would be rather unsightly the 98 refers to the gold colored vinyl for the interior of my Galaxie. This website has been invaluable for information presented in this article. This color sample, a screenshot from shows the wide variety of colors one could get on their Galaxie in 1963. In general, the Galaxie 500 bodies have an “A”, the fleet level 300 an “E”, while the Galaxie (non 500) and Galaxie XL have a variety of singular letters following the two-digit body number. Other possible numbers would be 76A for a Galaxie 500 convertible or 54B for a Galaxie (non 500) four-door sedan. It does seem to overlap the “62” for trim and body in the warranty number. This denotes the car is a Galaxie 500 four-door sedan. The information along the top line drills down to much more detail. The last six digits are the production number, starting with 100001, making my Galaxie the 35,511th car down the assembly line in St. While the 260 and 289 V8s were available in the Galaxie, it was not easy to discern which codes were meant for cars other than the Galaxie. Other engines were the 223 straight six (5 for retail, E for taxi) the 390 V8 (Z for retail, P for police interceptor) and the top dog 427 V8 (Q for four-barrel and R for two four-barrels). X is the engine code for the two-barrel 352 cubic inch (5.8 liter) V8. The trim numbers for a Galaxie 500, in all iterations, ranged from 61 (for the two-door Club Sedan) to 66 (for the two-door hardtop fastback). In this case, it is a Galaxie 500 four-door Town Sedan. The third and fourth digit, 62, is the designation for trim and body. The letter designations for the various Ford plants spanned from A to Z, but obviously there wasn’t a plant for each letter. The Z is where the car was assembled in this case St. Hopefully anyone would not encounter this as a challenge, as hopefully this car wouldn’t be confused with being a 1950s or 1970s model. Let’s start with the serial number, or what the data plate refers to as the Vehicle Warranty Number: If any “build sheet” exists within the car, I have yet to find it.Īs some ’80s rap singer would say, let’s break it down! The one distinct disadvantage in having a date plate such as this is not having a specific listing of what options the car received during its manufacture. It provides both the serial number (saying “VIN Number” is redundant) and various other attributes about the car. Like anything else, there are advantages and disadvantages. Nothing under the hood, no second plate mounted elsewhere – just this. Unlike contemporary and later GM and Chrysler products, Ford used just this single tag to tell an owner all about their car. Open the driver’s door and you’ve found the location of the Galaxie’s data plate. Using a handy example, let’s examine this 1963 Ford Galaxie that we’ve seen on occasion. In an effort to provide information as broad as possible, let’s jaunt over to Dearborn to see how things were done back in the day. Recently, aaron65 provided a very good example of how to decode the fender tag on his Pontiac and Dodge.
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