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JamesSam

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My truck is from Flint. If you search on the internet you can find the VIN decoders and I'm fairly certain there is more than one way you can find it on this forum as well.
 

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This breakdown you listed...
Where can I find that so I can print it out.
None of my manuals has this...that I recall.
Google search for the list. I also found charts, but I could not save or download. For the list I posted, just copy and paste in a word doc. Then you can print it if you want. If you need help, let me know.

Google is your friend. I know some people don't like Google because it will track you. I really don't give a crap, let them track me. They'll find out I'm a grumpy old man with lots of rusty trucks... and lots of ammo.
 

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Not gonna post that chart. It clearly doesn't render properly.
Found a better one for the older squares
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@Radiohead ,that chart is NOT right for my 75 k20.......CKY245FXXXXXX is the way mine reads out. The year is the 6th space(5), then the factory F(Flint).
 

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How's this one line up Perry?
 

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Looks like a assembly line worker rapidly, and single handedly, writing the number "23" to me.

:console:
 

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Awesome work here @hey mister Marty! I like the story on your trucks name. It would be really cool if the smiley face was replicated on the truck somewhere, tailgate or on the door. The VIN breakdowns are in the service manuals and LMC has something like it in the beginning of their catalogue as do other truck parts catalogues.
I am by no means an "artistic" inclined guy.
Mechanically inclined is my second nature. Engines talk to me and I just listen...lol
 

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23...Smiley...?
"Only the Shadow knows..."
And maybe the guy who did it....lol
And ya gotta figure he's around 80+ years old or better. Because the Vietnam draft had been in full swing and just ended a couple years earlier. And most kids of draft age had no interest in working in assembly lines. Gas stations and hamburger joints, sure. Assembly lines, not so much. In the mid to late 70's high schools had a 2 track program; college bound or blue collar. There were a number of government funded programs to replenish the skilled labor looking to retire from the WWII era. Few high school grads had any interest in blue collar. Most wanted to go to college and make the big money.
I know..kinda got side tracked just to speculate the "scribbler" was in his 30's...
 

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I have tried to trace over the line using a photo editer...
It ain't the best, but you get the idea.
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sorry but you didn't "highlight" all the details. You sure it's not a fat basturd puking in the air? Sorry, ur pic made me think of it lol

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