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[Dropped 68]

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[binder56jd]

[4x4x4crewcab]

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I'm glad "presently incarcerated" didn't follow that oh yeah WELCOME to the site
I believe the Crewcabs were available from Ford starting in 1965 and all the crews prior to that model year were made by custom/coach body building companies.

[fourtss]

[kknip]

I found this site on part numbers that might help.
http://www.classicmustang.com/decoding_part_numbers.htm

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[Tallboy]

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[phlegm]

That is a good site to start from, I have a lot of the same information from there plus additional information from the back of the 2004 FelPro gasket catalog. Plus all of the Basic Part Numbers from the Ford Parts Interchange Manual listed above plugged into this webpage. http://www.phlegm.us/workshop/ if you go there and plug in a casting number from any engine part it will break down the prefix information the same way Clarko did in a previous post. However I know that my list of Basic Part Numbers is far from complete, plus Ford had a bad habit of using either Casting numbers or Part numbers when identifying individual peices. On the page I listed above there is a table that has all of the engine related basic part numbers from the Interchange manual.

I've also got a big fat book titled Ford the Standard Catalog that has all of the Model numbers for cars VIN broke down, I’ve only entered the data for the 60’s cars only, but if you are interested in testing to see if my decoder is correct the URL is http://www.phlegm.us/workshop/VIN_decode.php. The Interchange manual is a good starting point but far from complete as far as Basic Part Numbers are concerned, also it does not offer many options. I am only interested in engines, for now. But my ultimate goal is to be able to plug in a casting or part number and have it tell you what it was used on, every make/model, then if available give information about other similar parts, for example the above listed C5AE-6049-B was for the fullsized cars but a C5ZZ-6049 which does not exist, because I just made it up would have been the casting number for a head designed for a 1965 mustang, but the utility would let you compare the parts virtually like the combustion chamber size, the rocker stud size and thread pitch it could help find suitable replacements by also listing the non-mainstream vehicles like Fairmonts, Falcons, Mavericks, Grand Torino Elites.. etc. Its a project that will take time, and a few more good resources but it will be worth it when I get it completed. One source of information that I have not been willing to pay for yet is a membership to the AACN http://www.aacncclub.com/ Maybe next year if I cannot find printed sources for my needs. Another sad thing that happened was that when Ford went to digital catalogs they tossed in the garbage all of their old microfische and lost a lot of easily searchable information.

And one last page if you are still reading this. A complete listing of motors used by ford from 1923-2003 courtesy of the Fel-Pro gasket book. http://www.phlegm.us/workshop/showEngines.php As you can see and as I said before I have a tendency to read a lot of reference manuals and try to make them more usable. And by cross referencing them with additional sources my project is more of a research project then merely plagiarism from a single source.

Well enough about that, i need to go read some threads.