The same questions you ask gtodrive, I've also though about.
Whether a 2+2, Parisienne or Strato Chief, the dash graphic on all 69' big cars was some sort of stencil or production screening. Not a decal. And it wasn't very durable. After 40 years of wiping with anything but water, the sun and physical contact, and it would be all but gone. But where it once was, it leaves a small, very fine outline tracing the outside edges of what was painted. Almost like a fine scored line.
I have seen only 1 of these 2+2 metal panels nos over the years, but I can't for the life of me figure out how one would get it into place. It's moulded into place under the dash pad. About .25" all the way round is hidden under the pad lip surrounding the panel. And it does not come out from behind.
Someone here probably has a good homemade solution to re-doing this graphic. The lined surround portion, I think you could just very carefully mask off with some good narrow sign painters tape and use a silver modelers detail pen to re-touch. The "2+2" portion... now that would be a challenge. Perhaps it would be easier to have somone reproduce the entire face as a decal applied to a thin substrate, then apply that directly to the panel. Maybe a precicion computer cut mask applied exactly over the original font, then touch up? I really don't think a decal would work very well here, I think it needs to be painted. A graphics person would have a solution to be sure.
'70 2+2. Not sure if the graphic is the same as '69.
1969 2+2 would have this grain.
-- Edited by cdnpont on Tuesday 3rd of November 2009 10:00:57 AM69' Parisienne convertible in progress
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