Re: Vehicles

Posted by South Park on
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  Clear coated bare wood wheels were a HIGH maintenance way to go
and not commonly done back in the day.  Almost all were painted wood.
It is the post-1950 old car following that thinks the bare wood is "cute"
and leaves it unpainted, or goes out of their way to build truck peds and
other parts of wood and purposely leave the wood base with some clear
coat.  As these hobby cars are not left out on the elements or driven daily
in rain and snow, they maintenance issue of old is lost on them and so now
we see a LOT of bare wood trimmed cars.  But historically speaking, bare
wood is, in the main, WRONG.