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Dodge may have used a small child with a tack hammer to strike the number die, as the stamps are often shallow, and may be hard to find. Here are a few tips to make finding the number easier.
1. Clean the area down to bare metal, a wire wheel in a drill works well for this.
2. Clean a larger area then shown in the images, the number may be in a slightly different spot.
3. Getting the area wet (water works fine for this, or some light oil) can help make some numbers easier to read.
4. If the area is rusty or the number is hard to make out, take close up digital images of the number, and enlarge them on the computer. This trick often helps make out a hard to read number.
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