Most of these reasons have nothing to do with us owners. Post a picture or two.The Vehicle Identification Number, or VIN is important for many reasons. Let us know what you find and what it turns out to be. “Never say Willys wouldn’t have _ “ (fill in the blank – they probably did). Trust nothing written down or told to you until you verify it with your own eyes” You are at the First Rule of Jeep right now: My ’48 has a ’49 serial number, but it is unmistakably a ’48 if you look at the details.Īlthough a lot of sources say that you can find truck serial numbers in various places, when we took my '48 down to the bare bones, there was not a sign of a serial number anywhere else than on the serial plate. They were also very careless with serial plates. If a ’47 sat in the dealer at the model year change, WO would reissue papers showing it as a ’48 since nothing changed. Willys-Overland was notorious for reassigning title information at model year changes. (Or – it could be just about anything if someone just assigned a serial number). I'd bet it's going to be a mid-'48 4WD truck when you get to looking. If we assume the "32269" is correct, if it is a probably really a 4WD truck since the 2WD serial numbers stopped at 2T27787 in 1950 when the 2WD model was dropped. I also agree that someone has swapped or miscopied the serial number. In 1951, with the shift to the F-134 engine, prefixes went to "451" series. As GMWillys says, Willys pickups trucks of the 46 - 51 era had serial numbers with 2T or 4T prefixes. If the truck is a 2WD truck, the original serial number would have been 2T XXXXX. Every place I have looked says that the Willys truck did not start production until 1947 and that serial number is really high. The ad is for a 1946 Willy's 2wd Truck but the title shows 4WD32269. I am going to look at it tomorrow and I am trying to get this figured out. I am looking at buying an old willy's pickup truck but when I research the serial number on the title it does not seem right.
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