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


Another ID tag


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.