1997 Ford E-150 1FTEE142-V — all VINs
138 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What 1FTEE142-V means
- 1FT
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Ford registered — assembled in the United States
- EE142
- together encode the E-150 line — Cargo VAN, 4.2L 6cyl — as Ford filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- V
- in position 10 — model year 1997
- 9, 11–17
- vehicle-specific fields: check digit, plant code and production sequence
Groups
Too many vehicles to list on one page, so they are split by the next character of a fixed code derived from the VIN. Each group keeps its cars for good.