Tall T
Well-known Member
It took me way too long (or too late) to clue in to the value of a '47 to '54 truck serial number.
I had a 1947 Chev 3/4 ton flat deck in the 80's that I drove every day for several years.
when I bought the 1951 Aluminum Chevy van that I drive now, I towed it home twenty miles from Victoria B.C. to my home behind that 1947 flat deck.
I sold it relatively cheaply.
The first number of the serial number is the year of the truck. It was a 7.
Later I thought about the last five digits of the serial number which are the production number of the truck.
They were: 00101
It was the one hundred and first Chev 3/4 ton truck ever built in 1947.
I've been groaning about that ever since I sold it.
Someone from anywhere U.S.A. would have come here to get it and it could have been driven home.
Here's a photo of it with me napping on the park grass.
I bought it for a few hundred from Victoria Welding and it had "Coast Ornamental Iron" on the doors, which it had when Victoria Welding bought it from them.
Terry
I had a 1947 Chev 3/4 ton flat deck in the 80's that I drove every day for several years.
when I bought the 1951 Aluminum Chevy van that I drive now, I towed it home twenty miles from Victoria B.C. to my home behind that 1947 flat deck.
I sold it relatively cheaply.
The first number of the serial number is the year of the truck. It was a 7.
Later I thought about the last five digits of the serial number which are the production number of the truck.
They were: 00101
It was the one hundred and first Chev 3/4 ton truck ever built in 1947.
I've been groaning about that ever since I sold it.
Someone from anywhere U.S.A. would have come here to get it and it could have been driven home.
Here's a photo of it with me napping on the park grass.
I bought it for a few hundred from Victoria Welding and it had "Coast Ornamental Iron" on the doors, which it had when Victoria Welding bought it from them.
Terry
