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    11/10/2019 2:44 PM  #1

    Cab4word67
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    From: Portland, Ore
    Registered: 4/06/2019
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    Found a tag on my intake

    Can anyone decipher this tag, I know the first line is 289, and the 65, but  dont know the 7, Second line I think is May Dearborn, but dont know 551-J   

    Last edited by Cab4word67 (11/10/2019 2:44 PM)

    Slammed Big Blue, ran over the varmints that messed with the Stang. Now all is good in the NW
     

    11/10/2019 3:51 PM  #2

    Texas!
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    Re: Found a tag on my intake

    I can't expand your picture to see it but this may help.
    http://fordification.com/tech/engineIDtags.htm

     

    11/10/2019 4:56 PM  #3

    josh-kebob
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    Re: Found a tag on my intake

    Texas! wrote:

    I can't expand your picture to see it but this may help.
    http://fordification.com/tech/engineIDtags.htm

    ^^^^^this should be pinned for future reference purposes....

     

    11/11/2019 5:09 PM  #4

    TKOPerformance
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    Re: Found a tag on my intake

    Tough to make it out, but from what I can see its a 289 from '65 that had a 3 or 4 speed manual trans.  Those tags are reproduced FYI, not saying its a fake (wouldn't you make it a K code if you were going to lie?), but the possibility exists. 

     

     

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