BlackHackle wrote:
Don't have photo capability right now, but rod has the original green plaid sock and metal tube with Fenwick Westminster, CA sticker on it. The obvious difference from my four other newer Fenwicks is that the model, rod length and rod weight are in black ink script rather than a sticker. I would think there would be a date when they made that change, no? But I have not run across it. Does that help any? Am I also correct in Assuming that the rods were continuously numbered from 1960 to 1981, so the lower the number the older the rod? Seems to apply for the rods I have.
Fenwick moved to Westminster, CA in July 1967, where they remained until moving to Huntington Beach, CA in 1990. Don't think you can determine the date of manufacture by the numeric serial # only, since according to Vic Johnson "blocks of serial #s were assigned to each (assembly) plant".
I have a FF75 with the serial # I94077 (the first digit being a capital i, not a one) - if that helps any.