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Offline 79mustangcobra

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Body stamps decoding - not sure what these mean
« on: April 02, 2015, 09:55:47 AM »
I was looking at my 79 Cobra today and noticed these two stamps under the door uni-body.

Here is the driver side. I have no idea what this means. 92B. Sounds like a radio station.  :)



Here is the passenger side - this one looks like a date. 7-14 2nd shift?  The car was made 8-17-78



Thanks for looking and any info
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Offline carlite65

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Re: Body stamps decoding - not sure what these mean
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2015, 10:09:56 AM »
those are indeed date stamps of when that particular piece was stamped out. keep looking, most sheetmetal has them somewhere. some may be hidden & backwards. all should preceed the build date of the car.
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Offline J_Speegle

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Re: Body stamps decoding - not sure what these mean
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2015, 07:19:35 PM »
those are indeed date stamps of when that particular piece was stamped out........

+1 and in this example a panel identification stamp

Date code often does not include anything that identifies the year. In your example Month- day of month - shift - stamping plant
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