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Ford stamping on front cross member

Post by Mark Osterman » Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:33 am

Funny, I never saw this on the front crossmember of my ‘23 runabout until yesterday when the light happened to rake across it in a parking lot. Any ideas of when this stamping was common on frames.
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Re: Ford stamping on front cross member

Post by John Warren » Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:01 am

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Re: Ford stamping on front cross member

Post by Mark Osterman » Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:13 am

What the heck is happening there? Was the frame cut to lower it for a speedster? So that was stamped in the center.
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Re: Ford stamping on front cross member

Post by John Warren » Sun Oct 27, 2019 10:33 am

Yes that is my speedster/race car. I happened to have a small piece of a cross member that happened to have that stamp on it and I needed something to make the u-bolts to fit correctly, and yes the frame that it is atatched to has the stamp also. Not in the center, they were both just like yours.
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Re: Ford stamping on front cross member

Post by Original Smith » Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:06 am

I have no idea when Ford started stamping the script in those crossmembers, but most of that practice began in the late teens, where the script started appearing on everything.
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Re: Ford stamping on front cross member

Post by Steve Jelf » Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:23 am

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The logo was added to the front cross member "about March 19, 1919" according to the encyclopedia.
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Post by RajoRacer » Sun Oct 27, 2019 11:53 am

Boy, that's a really crisp stamping - wish I had the stamp for that size script !
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Re: Ford stamping on front cross member

Post by John kuehn » Sun Oct 27, 2019 3:08 pm

Steve isn’t that the near NOS cross member you found? It’s a nice clean one.
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Re: Ford stamping on front cross member

Post by Mark Osterman » Sun Oct 27, 2019 4:26 pm

Funny, of all the model T’s I’ve seen over the years I don’t recall seeing that stamping. I guess they are mostly as faint as the one on my car and not like that one Steve posted.
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Re: Ford stamping on front cross member

Post by Steve Jelf » Sun Oct 27, 2019 4:36 pm

...isn’t that the near NOS cross member you found?

I believe it was NOS. I didn't detect any marks suggesting it had ever been used.
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