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Does he remember NOT painting cars,but leaving them in Primer for Dealer delivery?

[/ QUOTE ] He doesn't remember any of the cars that they built ever leaving that way. BUT they only built the big cars at St. Louis. BUT when he went over to the truck line they did send out trucks in primer only to speciality paint shops. So like everything else there is always a lot of BUTS.

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Also,if a Car was designated for a Special Paint color code,not a regular Available code,did he hand write that code on that car somewhere?


[/ QUOTE ] When cars came out of primer there was a guy that his job was to look at the build sheets and mark the trim and paint number on the cowl. The build sheet didn't go through the paint shop, the only way the color and trim was know was by what was marked on the trim tag. The build sheets met back up with the car after out of the paint department. A special paint color that wasn't of the norm would not come out of the 3 or 4 hundred gallon containers that the standard colors were out of. The special colors were mixed and sprayed out of a pot that followed the car down the line. This made sure that special colors would be consistant over the entire car.

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I'd love to know if he might know the meaning of the very faint "17" stamped from the front in the cowl tag just under the paint code

[/ QUOTE ] He said that is a possibility, or could have been a notation to tell what number hose the special paint was in. ( now I did say eariler that special paint was done out of a pot, but (theres that but again) if they were planning to do alot of these cars they would have had a bigger batch of the paint.)

So there is the info I found for the first round. Hope this helps. By the way dad said he would love to see this car in person.