This is a pic from another forum I frequent of one of the tools used by GM in the 60's for striping. Want to know why some of those GS stripes are upside down? See how easy it is to flip it over? Maybe a righty used it one way and a southpaw another! http://classicoldsmobile.com/forums/body-paint/99840-dual-striper-tool-used-factory.html#post880208
Yep, putting the stripes upside down from what the assembly manual shows is an easy thing to do. I recently saw another original paint '67 GS400 that had the stripes upside-down from the norm. It was a very early built car from the Kansas City plant. I've seen at least 1/2 dozen original paint cars now with the stripes done that way. I would think that a plant like Baltimore which built both GTOs and GS400s would probably have a high rate of mistakes since those two cars had the stripes the opposite of one another yet made in the same place.
My 67 GS400 is a Baltimore Mfg'd car and still has the original paint on one quarter panel and the pin stripes are reversed for Buick but as Pontiac marked them.
