Topic: Destroy tag ??

[silverelvis69]

Hi fellow experts,
I have a Mexico Record Number and Destroy Tag. FAXXXX
The tag is shape like a bend square shape  or stretch round tag.

HOWEVER my Car is a San Jose??
I believe this is for the ford deraler to reproduce key however the MEXICO is confusing me?

Also - My car does NOT have an Engine No on the block. Was it common in the 70s that block numbers were skipped at times.

Thank you

[J_Speegle]

Might help to see a picture of what your trying to describe. The "Mexico" may juts describe who or where the tag or item was made - reproduction or aftermarket replacement

It would be very unusual for a car to be built in 70 at San Jose without a VIN stamped on the engine and transmission. IMHO. Might want to collect casting and stamping dates as best you can and start comparing them to the cars real completion date

[silverelvis69]

Casting dates all match up - BUT no engine No

see below link

https://forum.mustang.org.au/index.php?topic=911.0

[Bossbill]

I've not seen Mexico on the tag, but those tags are used to ID your keys so the Ford dealer could make new ones without having your old key. If someone copied that number they could get keys made and steal your car, hence the destroy notice.

[jwc66k]

It is an instruction - RECORD NUMBER AND DESTROY TAG - read it as YOU record THE number and THEN YOU destroy THE tag. The tag was made in Mexico.
Jim

[J_Speegle]

Three different styles of the lock code tags from 1969

[jwc66k]

While looking up the trunk located wiring in my 65 GT Fastback for another post, low and behold, on the key ring was apparently, the original metal tag with the notation (spaces intended):
MEXICO
    RECORD
  NUMBER &
DESTROY TAG
(the number)
I'll ignore the instructions and keep the tag with the keys.
Jim

[silverelvis69]

so - What about Some 70 Engine blocks with no Engine no. Was this a common thing? as per link above that I found?

[DougDyar]

so - What about Some 70 Engine blocks with no Engine no. Was this a common thing? as per link above that I found?

I wouldn't put much weight on that link. We all know that VINs were being stamped on engines long before 1970. One post on an Australian forum does not make it so...

[J_Speegle]

so - What about Some 70 Engine blocks with no Engine no. Was this a common thing? as per link above that I found?

You must have missed this in Reply #1

"It would be very unusual for a car to be built in 70 at San Jose without a VIN stamped on the engine and transmission. IMHO. Might want to collect casting and stamping dates as best you can and start comparing them to the cars real completion date"

No - It was a federal requirement for cars built in the US.

Engine could be a service or later replacement - often an excuse for not having the original engine