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Hello all;
The woodgraining on the dashes of 1940's cars
was never painted by hand, though I have seen many botched home brew attempts in
their place. The material used was definately some type of tranferable decal,
and from everything I have read, it was made by Di-Noc Chemical Arts.
Di-Noc was also used on old radios, the exteriors of some station wagons,
and even juke boxes, but it is certainly not like Mac-Tac vinyl in that it
doesn't peal off and wares like paint.
Apparently these type of wood grain decals are
making a come back as an after market product for modern cars, as I did find
several companies selling them. The trouble is that most of them appeared to be
marketed for doing accent pieces on the dash so the amount of material in each
kit was likely small. The Di-Noc decals are made by 3M today but I haven't found
out where you can buy sheets of it yet. I will send a link later to one of the
afformentioned companies. I will keep looking for a source of this, perhaps in
Hemmings?
Best Regards
Arran Foster
1954 Imperial Newport
Needing A Left Side Taillight Bezel and Other Trim
Parts.
P.S I like the idea of hand grained dashes as well
but that is a process more often used with the earlier cars (I.E 1920s) when
labour was cheap and hand craftsmanship still existed in industry. If you
go from one 40's car to another of the same make and year you will find that
they had identical wood grain patterns, impossible to do by hand.
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