Originally published at: A 1970s tutorial on repairing vinyl wood decals for your car | Boing Boing
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It’s a wrap. Heh.
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I never once saw this vinyl stuff not turn to crap in one Winter, leaving huge strips of it flapping in the wind as you went down the road.
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The fake dark wood stickers were surrounded by a frame of fake light wood fiberglass mouldings, to give it a three-dimensional appeal. And this fakery didn’t start in the seventies, it started in the sixties.
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Enjoyed hunting for an example. You are correct, down to the yellow trim!
https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/cars-for-sale/ford/country-squire/2459245.html
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On my family’s horrible 1976 Mercury Montego Villager wagon the fake wood siding was pretty much the only stuff that didn’t go bad or break horribly. (My dad sold our perfectly good 1967 VW cabriolet and bought that monstrosity. I occasionally have a dream that he actually kept the Bug and it’s waiting for me in the back of the garage.)
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At least you’re not going to get splinters in an accident… OUCH!
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