Reply To: 1950's OMC painting method

[frankr]

I visited the Evinrude plant in the mid-1960’s. I didn’t get a good look at how they painted them, but I must say I was very impressed with how easily the guy applied the decals. He had a couple soaking while he applied others. He’d take it out of the soak and slap it on the hood, squeegee it out, peel off the paper and job done in seconds. And we all fuss and mess with them forever, trying to get the bubbles and wrinkles out before it becomes hopeless.. Must be some skill involved there somewhere.