Heat wouldn't change the paint that much, and it would be more localized. My bet is on your initial observation - light tan not white.
BTW, very impressed that you found the folding engine cover. Postwar, that plate armour would have been the first or second thing to come off and be repurposed into a plow blade or almost anything else.
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