The "wood" in the Mistiques is faux wood - plastic. I would love to add some wood to my car, but all the kits I've seen (and I have looked around a lot) are "stick-on" using double sided 3M tape...not what I'm looking for.
There is a company called Madera Concepts that does dash's from real wood. They do a lot of one-offs, and stuff for vintage restorations. Maybe if we could get enough people together for a group buy, they might do something for our cars. Another possibility would be to find someone with a duplicating mill, where you trace over the original, and the mill makes an exact copy. They use these for making carousel horses, for one.... The same thing could be done, tracing stock Contour dash pieces, with burl (or rosewood) stock under the mill. I've been thinking about hand fabricating a burled walnut replacement for the oval piece in the dash where the PATS light is, and maybe incorporating an nice analog clock (maybe from a Q45 or 300M). That, and a matching shift knob, would at least add a little touch of class...
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2K SVT Contour
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D.O.B. 1/11/2000
green/tan
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