Transmission is going together. Going out tonight with the family so will try to finish it after church tomorrow.

Eric,

That sounds great! Thanks very much. I’ll get the check sent in a couple days.

Bruce

This is fantastic, a great thing for the Jetfire community. I am sending the money now. Many thanks to you and Ken for making this happen after all these years.

They have arrived! I now have reproductions of the foot flange gasket available and are made right here in the USA! I have test fit one to a manifold and turbo but I have not mounted one to a car yet. I have all confidence that these will seal exactly like they should and need no sealer.

These are softer than the originals. The manufacturer…[Read more]

I just got the order of foot flange gaskets also. if you still want two of them I can put them in the same box and would not affect shipping. If you still want them then make it $406 total. I was going to post the official announcement they are available later tonight.

Eric Jensen
6933 N CR 400 E
Brazil Indiana 47834

I can send you a check. That might be easier for me rather than to try to deal with PayPal. Where do I send it and who do I make it out to? Please let me know. Thanks very much.

Bruce

I guess we will just have to keep guessing on the 2M, lol. Mysteries of production are fun to try and figure out. You with the most unique cowl tag award though with the XXX paint code.

My tag does not have any accessory codes.

My 1963 has a factory black engine compartment as well as the 2M on the cowl tag but I don’t know if the 2M is related to it. It’s Midnight Mist body color and it was built later in ’63. Production date July 25, 1963 at the Lansing plant.

For sure a good date. I am sure all the dates on that car are perfect. I started a notebook for my car’s dates. I would say roughly 75% of all parts have date codes on them, just a mater of finding them and decipher the code. Now I am wanting to find a late 62 or early printing of the codes. Not sure they ever printed one.

Took a fine brass brush to that spot: C- 3. So Eric, that means it was built January 3rd then with 3.36 gears. That certainly is an acceptable date for a car that was built the 3rd week of January.

I can do a check or pay pal. If pay pal I would prefer it as a friend or family so I don’t have any fees. Usually shipping is right close to $11 for these so $146 total will be fine. My Pay Pal is jensenracing77@yahoo.com

I’d like one. Where do I send payment? Thanks.

Bruce

The mysterious 2M on some of the 63 cowl tags, I wonder how those correlate to cars with body color to cars with black paint in the engine compartment? Whatever 2M is, it has to be involved with Fisher body to be on the cowl tag and this paint would be also Fisher body. Just a thought and wondering if we have enough 63 data to make this…[Read more]

There are a couple cars that have been found with black engine bays. Different plants, different body color. Another mystery to be solved. I removed my wiper motor and the black paint under it is perfect.

Oaklyss, that number represents the rear end code for the assembly worker. My code book was printed in July of 62 for the 63 model year and this code does not appear in it so I am betting it had a running change on the rear end and the code is a little newer than my book.

Sandy, That cover will have numbers stamped in it on the right side…[Read more]