Paul’s recent post of the beautiful Chrysler T&C brought back a memory of this Subaru. We saw it on our way through Washington and I snapped a quick pick of it. That’s some real craftsmanship there, if not dubiously applied.
CC Outtake: Who Needs a Junkyard When You Have A Wood Shop?
– Posted on August 30, 2012
Brilliant! Very complex shaping. You saw it for real, are you sure it’s really wood and not just contact paper? Though it would be hard to get contact paper to look that good.
Reminds me of the urban legend about the wooden pistons.
That was my first thought too: contact paper. But why? Or why go to all the trouble wit wood?
I’m struggling with the idea of someone being able to, or wanting to spend the time to get that peak and crease on both sides of the trunk lid just right with wood. Theoretically possible, but I’m calling BS. Or CP.
If you look at the lip/spoiler hump on the back and compare it to a factory trunk lid you can see it is a little less pronounced and more rounded. It looked like wood to me.
That’s pretty sweet, IMHO. Needs some more wood accents to tie it into the design, though.
I’d love to find someone who could replace the boot lid on my Slaab convertible with a wooden one (for a reasonable price, of course).
I’m gonna go with contact paper…looks like a bubble right above the driver’s side tail light.
I say its 1/8″ veneer, but why????????????
I cannot conceive of a reason for one to put contact paper on one of these because you would need to, at least, bondo the lid before you applied. I go with googootz. You can do wonders with veneer and glue. All I can’t figure is why you would want to.
Well maybe they figured contact paper or wood was better than rattle can paint.
I’m going to vote for the contact paper, too. Could a strip-built (as in cedar strips used in wooden kayak construction) 1967 Corvette Stingray be far behind?
Tyrane II, all-wood structure, body of mahogany veneer. Article at Wired.
I hope this doesn’t keep me up all night… Whether it’s contact paper, or a veneer, or wood all the way through… it’s pretty weird… In a strange way, it makes me proud to be a resident of Washington. Maybe we should change our name to Weirdshington…
If the name were changed, then you wouldn’t have to suffer the indignity of your residence being called “Washington state.”
On my way home on I-84 this evening, I saw an Impreza like this one with a flat black trunk lid. Carbon fiber? Krylon? Anyway, maybe it’s a veneer trunk lid for lightness. All I find for “veneer trunk lid” on the web is stuff like this.
The only thing that would make that picture better would be if it was the Saab version. Then it’d be a Japanese car badged as a Swedish car paying tribute to an American car… Perhaps it could be called the Saabarudmaster?