Serial number tag location needed for 1918 K-45

[Martian]

Hi,

 

Can someone here please direct me to be able to find the SN or frame number tag on my car?  If you can send me a picture that would be wonderful!  I was under it on a creeper for almost an hour last night and found nil!

Thanks so much in advance for any help!

 

 

[Brian_Heil]

There should be an oval tag on the frame just above the drivers side front axle.  You often have to look through the wheel spokes to see it.

[Morgan Wright]

K-45 is 1920. All the 1918 cars start with E.

 

Anyway, this says the 1918 frame tag is in front of the radiator and the 1920 tag is in the rear.

[Martian]

Ok thanks, yes I heard from somewhere else the K was a 1920 but the neighbors thought the original buyer said it was a 1918.

[Morgan Wright]

The serial number will tell you what it is.

[Martian]

What is an rds. - tr.? Does it mean roadster or touring?

[Guest]

Yes.

[ROD W]

K - 6 - 44 - 45,    K stands for the year 1920.   6 is 6 cylinder,   44 is the 3 seat roadster,   45 is the 5 seat tourer.

[DonMicheletti]

My E-45 has a serial number listed in the 1918 range and the title lists it as a 1918. However, I have the original 1917 California license.

Bought in '17, listed as an '18.

 

I refer to it as a 1918

[Terry Wiegand]

And on the other end of this situation, if the car was built near the very end of the model production run and did not sell until after the start of the new year, some states would have titled it as a 1919.  Things like that happened more than one would realize.

 

Terry Wiegand

South Hutchinson, Kansas

[Morgan Wright]

All K cars are 1920 regardless of the state title, states don't determine model year or what parts are going to fit the car. Buick does.

[Martian]

Did buick dealers offer a conversion kit to farmers to take out the back seat on a 45 and put on a wood tongue and groved pickup box?  

[Ben Bruce aka First Born]

Na, they were smart enough to do that on their own.  Mother of necessity and all that.

 

  Ben

[Larry Schramm]

5 hours ago, Martian said:

Did buick dealers offer a conversion kit to farmers to take out the back seat on a 45 and put on a wood tongue and groved pickup box?  

 

Nope,  Usually by necessity farmers would take out the back seats/ tub and build a truck body bed or take something from an old farm wagon.

 

Buick made trucks on and off from 1908 to 1923 and all Buick trucks were 4 cylinder except the model 2-A from 1910 and an earlier "delivery car" also placed on a Model F chassis.

 

If you see a "Buick truck" with a 6 cylinder engine, it is a converted car.

Edited September 22, 2018 by Larry Schramm (see edit history)

[ROD W]

This  1920 was for sale recently.  Had a nice conversion  from a tourer.  The add said it was  bought this way by the original owner. ,  But it was probably  converted by the dealer for sale to farmers in the area.

[Larry Schramm]

6 hours ago, ROD W said:

This  1920 was for sale recently.  Had a nice conversion  from a tourer.  The add said it was  bought this way by the original owner. ,  But it was probably  converted by the dealer for sale to farmers in the area.

 

 

It is possible, but I doubt it because of the cost of building a body and then removing it would not make sense.  If anything, the car was probably converted by the first or second owner. 

 

To add a truck body to a 1915 Buick chassis at time of manufacture was $75.00.  I would suspect that a car body cost a lot more.

Edited September 22, 2018 by Larry Schramm (see edit history)

[Martian]

Having sale issues so need to contact other people interested in this car, high bid was 6900 dollars.  Prefer to keep it in USA, less paperwork.   If interested in matching this let me know.

Edited October 3, 2018 by Martian (see edit history)