Custom Paint on the Assembly Line?
Does anybody else have a few cars from childhood that you can remember vividly, don't know the name or manufacturer of, and haven't seen since? I just had the gleeful experience of identifying one of mine! It was a Majorette Dodge Safari.
I was particularly fond of that truck. You could put/hide/store stuff in it. It was a great trailer puller and backer with a tall, sturdy hitch. It had a cb antenna (ultimate coolness). And I loved the paint job. I had an orange one. I clearly remember the red, white, and dark green streaks on it.
Having identified a long time target I went to eBay and started hunting. Imagine my surprise upon discovering this:



They're all different! And none of them look like mine! What the?
So two questions: First, anybody know how Majorette pulled this off on an assembly line? Second, got any thoughts on how to replicate it? Because it's kinda cool looking.
Discussion
Not unheard of... the paint used during the pad printing process would have been laid down onto the plate from unmixed color pots giving every car a unique color palette... see this for Pad (Tampography) printing...
www.decotechgroup.com/introduction-to-pad-printing-pad-printing-101
Also something unique for auction on eBay is some trial tampo print cars that were pre production tests...

almost looks like that spray paint on water thing people do
curious
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