66 Hood Etching

[1strodeo]

Anyone seen this before? Just noticed it tonight, hood was blasted a couple months ago but this remains. From what I can make out it it's stamped USS, Cold Rolled, what appears to be a part number and an undeniable date stamp of 1 10 66. My Bronco was built Apr 66

I'll tack this onto my build thread as well, but thought it was worthy of its own thread as I've not seen it before in in my (almost) year on this site

 

[okie4570]

Very cool thanks for sharing!

 

[T-Bird]

where on the hood is it located?

 

[1strodeo]

It's on the driver side, my guess is it would be above the front edge of the wheel well (it's on the underside of the hood guess I should've specified that) and it's sideways, meaning the bottom of the stamp would be toward the engine

 

[eaglenest66]

I have seen that on another thread, different part of the body. Floor pans I believe.

 

[71Broncitis]

When we had the hood on our 67 soda blasted it has a similar batch stamp from US Steel.

This is the batch stamp on the raw coil from the steel supplier that the parts are stamped from, not specific to the part itself or indicative​ of when the hood was stamped. Certainly not for when the Bronco was built since the first Broncos did not roll down the assembly line for 4 months later.



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[1strodeo]

The first Broncos rolled down the line in 1965

I worked at a steel tubing mill in the 90's so I knew the etching was for the raw steel, but knowing it was rolled 3 months before mine was built tells me I have one more (probably) original part on my EB

T-bird like said these etchings can probably be found anywhere on the EB (that's not rusted) mine just happens to be under the hood

 

[JGbronc]

I've found this on a door or two before. Very neat that they still remain after everything is removed.