Job Number

[John S.]

During restoration of my 1965, I found a job number "R125" written on my AO Smith body. What information, if any, I can get from this number?

[Tony S.]

Re: Job Number

Hi John. That's a subject that comes up from time to time early in the restoration process. I have a '65 A. O. Smith body with my L79 convertible. As I have learned, the body manufacturers ran job numbers 1 through 500 as part of some inventory management system. From my research, A. O. Smith used a letter to preceed the job number; St. Louis did not use a letter. I think A. O. Smith started with A1 through A500, then started over at B1 through B500, and so on.

My car's body is M261 (my car was built on 3-31-65).

When was your car built?
Best,
Tony

[Donald T.]

Re: Job Number

During restoration of my 1965, I found a job number "R125" written on my AO Smith body. What information, if any, I can get from this number?

John,

I worked on the issue of AOS job numbers for some time and collected a survey to determine the relevance of the letter designation. AOS job numbers ran from A100-500, B1-500, C1-500, etc. STL body cars did not have the letter designation preceeding the job number. Here's a link to a thread with detailed info on the topic, including some of my survey results.


https://www.forums.ncrs.org/showthre...1-500&uid=7665

[John S.]

Re: Job Number

Thank you Donald and Tony for responding to my post. This is what I was looking for, but couldn't find it in the archives.

My 1965 Coupe's body number is A-3250 and was built on May 14, 1965. The job number that I found is R125.

Thanks,
John