Re: Interesting find
Well, I think today I solved the mystery of the IVORY paint issue. I went looking for more job numbers on the car where people had suggested they found theirs. On the passengers side by the feet I found nothing, and worked my way back onto the floor. Nothing there. Tried the drivers side also and found nothing there. I then went to the drivers side bulkhead and found no numbers, but did happen to notice that the verticle bulkhead on the passengers side had a rather straight seam in it where as the drivers side did not.
See first picture. Investigating further I discovered that by looking at the back of the panel on the passengers side, the top edge looked like it had white paint on it. It did! See picture two. Now, looking down into the gas tank hole, I saw what looked like a major repair running front to back in the bottom. See picture three. I then went below to look up at it and discovered a major repair line that looked to run from the half way to the back of the fender up to this verticle panel on the bulkhead. See picture four. Yikes! 
I followed it forward and sure enough in the floor of the passengers side up to the heater box hole and over to the middle of the front fender shows a repair as well! I have more pictures I will post later but it appears that when the pallet of glass fell on the car it wiped out most of the right side of the car! If that is the case then the panel that has the IVORY written on it is a replacement panel that was painted Red, thus explaining the IVORY written on it. And with the white paint on the top edge of it, that would make sense. I expect if I took the red paint off I would find the original white under the red. If you get the light just right you can see the seam on top of the fenders in both cases. And looking at the edge of the front fender that is under the hood, you can see the seam there as well.
So, I will be calling my sister in law asking for any pictures that my brother might have taken of the damage to the car for the insurance company. Unfortunately she is in the middle of moving out of one house and into another so finding those pictures may take a while.
I really appreciate all the feed back that was given on this. It had me befuddled for sure. But now it makes sense at to the color the car was originally. Roman Red!
Well, I think today I solved the mystery of the IVORY paint issue. I went looking for more job numbers on the car where people had suggested they found theirs. On the passengers side by the feet I found nothing, and worked my way back onto the floor. Nothing there. Tried the drivers side also and found nothing there. I then went to the drivers side bulkhead and found no numbers, but did happen to notice that the verticle bulkhead on the passengers side had a rather straight seam in it where as the drivers side did not.
See first picture. Investigating further I discovered that by looking at the back of the panel on the passengers side, the top edge looked like it had white paint on it. It did! See picture two. Now, looking down into the gas tank hole, I saw what looked like a major repair running front to back in the bottom. See picture three. I then went below to look up at it and discovered a major repair line that looked to run from the half way to the back of the fender up to this verticle panel on the bulkhead. See picture four. Yikes! I followed it forward and sure enough in the floor of the passengers side up to the heater box hole and over to the middle of the front fender shows a repair as well! I have more pictures I will post later but it appears that when the pallet of glass fell on the car it wiped out most of the right side of the car! If that is the case then the panel that has the IVORY written on it is a replacement panel that was painted Red, thus explaining the IVORY written on it. And with the white paint on the top edge of it, that would make sense. I expect if I took the red paint off I would find the original white under the red. If you get the light just right you can see the seam on top of the fenders in both cases. And looking at the edge of the front fender that is under the hood, you can see the seam there as well. So, I will be calling my sister in law asking for any pictures that my brother might have taken of the damage to the car for the insurance company. Unfortunately she is in the middle of moving out of one house and into another so finding those pictures may take a while.
I really appreciate all the feed back that was given on this. It had me befuddled for sure. But now it makes sense at to the color the car was originally. Roman Red!
. I would rather David hadn't found this extensive damage repair on his car, or any repairs at all, and we could still look to the assembly line for an answer 
. But now that he has uncovered all these repairs I think we can rule out that interesting and unusual story from the assembly line. Seems the questions now become; what happened, where, when, why, who was driving, and what other car was involved? I think David's assessment as a T-Bone or something similar will be pretty much right on.
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