Does anyone here know any good sites to decode VINs of old ford trucks? I've already searched a few sites for my 1960 (or therabouts, certainly that generation), but all of their tables are dead wrong for my tag. It reads:



F10CR542155



My understanding: R is the engine.



Then HP listed on the tag is 135, and RPM is 5000; but then some sites say this VIN means it has a 545 engine in it (I don't think I've ever even heard of that one before) and others say it has an export only 292 with dual four barrels. I know that isn't right for this engine either, I mean dual quads at 135 hp? And why would someone downgrade the engine to the single quad it has now? I was told it was a 312, but I am willing to believe that was just their name for Y-Blocks. The casting numbers don't seem to match anything either, the engine says :



B-667 AC5T [and then there's a little square]



the driver side head says:



EEE- [then a large space, like six inches] - - 103





When I read the 135, my first instinct was a 250 I6, later I learned that and the RPM match up perfectly with a 223 I6, but the VIN decoders totally disagree with that (although they have no consistency, I have not found one that says 223).

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