Anyone have a photograph they can share of the woodgrain for this car? I can't tell if the woodgrain is just in the middle area of the window trim below the glass, or if it is solid and just a darker color then the center. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Tim, My 66 garnish moulding are wood grain all over then that middle is darker wood grain with a white pin stripe around it. Will try and post a pic.

I can't help with a 70 or 77 picture but I regrained the window trim moldings on a 29 Desoto and a 32 Dodge 8 cylinder in the recent past and both had wood grain on the entire lower horizontal trim molding on the windows. The original graining on both cars was still in decent condition and both used the same background color even tho 3 years apart.
Martin Lum

Thanks Marty & Dana, I have another model 70 and I'm going to try to clean a small area and check if there is wood grain under the dark color (the car is all original)

Tim,
I have attached a picture in the area you were asking about of my original frame that is below the window. I have the dash pictures also if you need them.

Thanks, your picture shows that the wood grain covers all the trim and not just the small area inside the white pinstripe. I'd like the pictures of the dash too so I can send them to the restoration shop. This is a great help to me.

My records come up void on 1930's, but I'll throw you some pics of 29 and 31 that I believe are similar series.

One of them is a really bad photo of an original 31 door trim.

The one that is clearly a picture of a piece of paper is my color and ink sample from a 29 series 75. It shows that the two grains were the same on that car, and placed on the same base color... just a darker ink used.

The pic of two door garnish pieces is a 29 done by us, again... done before I owned a digital camera so what you have is a digital pic of a photograph.

I hope it helps.

Patrick Goss

Thanks gossp and dana, I copied what you sent and took it to the restoration shop. It was just as he thought it was.