AO Smith Core Support

[Page C.]

I was in the process of cleaning this 1965 AO Smith air condition core support and found a hand written number on the bottom. Most of the support was covered in blackout, then some body color, red oxide primer and last the entire core support was painted in green zinc chromate primer. The very bottom of the core support was missing the blackout and red primer and had just a little body color. In carefully removing the body color there was a hand written number that I have no idea what it means. It was written on the green zinc chomate primer and appears to be 3408. This car was built in late Nov 1964. Has anyone seen this before

[Dan B.]

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I believe that may be related to the job number of your car. I have seen that before, but not specifically on the core support. I am sure some other experienced folks will chime in to correct or augment this. Dan

[Page C.]

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Hi Dan,
You were correct in that it's the job number. The job number for this AO Smith coupe is C348. It looks like the letter "C" on the core support was stuck in between the 4 and the 8.

[Tony S.]

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Great example, Page!

[Gene M.]

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Page, that is a super nice core support. The only thing I’d replace is the passenger side radiator bracket for the cushion pocket. The entire bottom looks great. Where was this car, the rest as nice?

North east cars seem to always need fabrication and welding to look that good.

[Tom D.]

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Your "hmmmm comment" made me do this. My son came up with an Excel spreadsheet in which we listed every part we have (or had). One of the line items in the spreadsheet is "BOX NUMBER". A separate listing in the same file is by box number. The shelf location of the numbered box is in that second list.