A freind called me up to say that there was a red pagods in a local showroom that he saw when driving by. A couple days later he called me up again to say that it was a hardtop model and it was stunning. I had to go see it, so last night I braved rushhour traffic and the rain and found instead of a red pagoda, an early 60's Maserati 2500. The rear end looked just like this picture except for the lights. It had the metal fender edges, low bumper, dual exhaust and shape of the trunk. A quick search found tail lights similar to what is in the picture on a late 50's Maserati.
My last guess - late 50's maserati.