How do you all think Wood Trim looks?

[Bender]

After I get my dash back in I was thinking about putting rosewood trim in my 81 vette but I am not sure how good that would look in real life. I know it looks good on my friends GTO. Any of you have wood trim?

 

[Vette/Berlina-coupe]

Rosewood trim is fabulous...

-it's a very subjective thing really (and also looks best contrasting with certain interior-colors, --for example metalic-blue would not harmonize well, while dk.green, dk.red, and black harmonize well with rich woods); --although as an automotive-designer i feel the present trend of applying gobs of brushed-metal bright-work is terribly distracting and simply corney looking (brushed-black however would be handsome)! I like an quasi-aircrafty look, and you will never see extensive bright/brushed-metal in such a serious cockpit environment. Your notion of Rosewood is great, and would really speak of quality craftsmanship if done well and preferably Tungue-oiled instead of varnished. However, Burl-wood does look swell if heavily urethane-varnished, -which is what i have on my dash-panels (click on center-cluster example below); -and am thinking of going to a hardwood-supplier and selecting some further pieces by which to trim the doors (you want to stay with one type of wood throughout, and area carving can be a very effective if distinctive enhancement as well). And of course, a large custom Rosewood Shift-knob would be the final touch....
~Bob Vonheck

 

[mytoy]

I put it on my 78 about ten years ago , it has held up great, had some people love it and others said I destroyed it, the purists. I bought mine from Corvette America, it is also on the console

 

[photovette]

The original black finish looked like crap when the car was a year old--and 10 minutes after you clean it. I luv mine--a bit of Zymol wax keeps it looking new.

 

[Willis76]

The original black finish looked like crap when the car was a year old--and 10 minutes after you clean it. I luv mine--a bit of Zymol wax keeps it looking new.

Man! I'll say - that wax does a fantastic job on those legs, I mean console..

 

[CQRT]

Looks great (and the photographer looks pretty great too....). . .what kind of stereo is that ?? Did you have to cut the dash to make it fit ??

Thanks

 

[photovette]

It's an Alpine system. Yes, I cut the dash, but you can buy them precut for DIN now. A bit step at $189 though. Yep, when you hang out with a bunch of glamour models, you gotta have a kick-ass stereo.

This is the Eckler's burl wood dash cover--it is really top quality. You got to be real careful putting it on--the glue is so strong you'll never never get it off if you mis-aligned it.

Here's another image:

Here's the model from the above image--they love to drive the 'vette after a shoot. You gotta give me credit, I figured out a way to write my C3 off as a business expense!!!

 

[CQRT]

Thanks for the . .ah . ..er... explanation John . . .the photos really lend..uh .er .. clarity to the ah.. ya know, issue . . .yeah . .that's it !

CQRT in AZ