15-02-2020, 02:14 PM
Most things on my 1934 Ruby seem to be un-messed-about-with, though clearly it had a lot of use from 1934 till about '54. Then 12 months back on the road in 1966/7.
When I bought this 1934 mk 1 Ruby ARQ the removable dash was brush painted in off white. While stripping it down carefully I found no trace of black, the original body colour. No trace of any wood-grain effect. It was a sort of dull chocolate brown on both sides.
Looking around at other Ruby dashboards I feel that anything goes. Some look to have original wood grain, some an original brown. And the shade varies a lot.
My door cappings seem to have always been black, the original body colour.
I have taken the body back to black, door cappings black and dashboard a moderately light shade of brown, slightly orangish.
I've never figured out why the dash was a separate panel, other than to woodgrain it.
When I bought this 1934 mk 1 Ruby ARQ the removable dash was brush painted in off white. While stripping it down carefully I found no trace of black, the original body colour. No trace of any wood-grain effect. It was a sort of dull chocolate brown on both sides.
Looking around at other Ruby dashboards I feel that anything goes. Some look to have original wood grain, some an original brown. And the shade varies a lot.
My door cappings seem to have always been black, the original body colour.
I have taken the body back to black, door cappings black and dashboard a moderately light shade of brown, slightly orangish.
I've never figured out why the dash was a separate panel, other than to woodgrain it.