1997 Ford F-350 1FTHF36F-V — all VINs
115 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What 1FTHF36F-V means
- 1FT
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Ford registered — assembled in the United States
- HF36F
- together encode the F-350 line — Pickup, 7.3L 8cyl, Four-wheel drive — 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.