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The 4 door sedan, does it have stamped numbers on the firewall?

You mean the theft-proof or body dash number? If you enlarge the photo you can see the triangles but no numbers in between. Other photos show the theft-proof clearly visible at this stage so I'd suspect it's one of those very uncommon 1955 Connor Ave cars that don't have a number. There are 2 or 3 known cases like that and a few others with numbers far out of sequence - numbers in the 1936 range.

On the photo you posted, can I assume the painted # (1035?)matches the VN? I presume the "88" identified a 5588.

OD,
That is correct.

You can also kind of make out BWL in the middle of the firewall. I think that what it is. I will have to look at the photo again. If you notice the bottom is kind of erased, is because the bottom was sandblasted, and they came up over the seam.

And no there are not any numbers between the triangles.