1954 Chevy 3100 VIN help

[01somta]

My old man is supposed to be picking up a 1954 Chevy pickup this weekend, so I have been doing some reading on the truck. One thing that I notice is that the number on the title and and the number on the door jamb match, but I doesn't look like a true VIN. I talked to the current owner and he said that he did some research and found out that some states actually assigned a number instead of the factory number. I will post some pics of the plates that are in the door jambs and also a VIN decoder on LMC truck website. Do you guys remember or have read that some states did this back then?

Here is the number on the title
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Another ID tag
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Here is LMC VIN decoder, bottom right of page
http://www.lmctruck.com/icatalog/ca/full.asp?page=11

[oestek]

Kelle's '54 has the tag shown in the lower pic and no other tag. It was in IL since new.

https://static1.pt-content.com/images/pt/2008/03/photo2-1.jpg