Can't quite tell from the photo, but will be there on the weekend.
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Can't quite tell from the photo, but will be there on the weekend.
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That is Burr Walnut, HZ SL/E. Whole lot is there, even the armrests.
Thinking the whole lot will go into storage for a while. Tonner will be blue so not going to match well. Another project will come up soon enough...Originally Posted by HK1837
Byron, I'm pretty sure it was referred to in the day as Burl
At one time I was seriously considering swapping out the fascia out of my HJ for one. Glad now I didn't but I still think they look really good all cleaned up.
Cheers.
Last edited by Taily; 15-01-2014 at 07:29 PM.
Nunc est bibendum...
I parted a late 74 Hj statesman caprice, now that would have been a great car new,most of the interior lights etc were still being used on the early commodores, still like the sle dash.
You could throw in a export Chevrolet statesman 350 as next desirable.
Just missed out on a really tidy HQ 350 which was in Brissy it went for about 27k had a bench street very nice looking car, I read somewhere the other day that they built about 2700 and claim they may only be less than 30 original examples left??
Yeah it is burl. People get it wrong all the time. It comes from the root burl underground at the base of the walnut tree. That is where the most interesting and intricate patterns are formed.
Edit: Learn something new everyday! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl
Last edited by Innuendo; 15-01-2014 at 07:40 PM.
Those big black lumps on the sides of box trees are burls as well. People cut them off and make furniture out of them. Maybe a Bently has real walnut burl, a Holden has plastic.
I researched this very thing when I wrote my 60 years book.
The guy who proof-read the book was a pommy English language teacher & also an antique furniture collector. He was adamant it was BURR, not BURL, he said he had never heard of BURL walnut, until I showed him the original Holden sales brochures, which clearly had it spelled BURL wherever that woodgrain was used. He in turn, produced many books on wood & antique furniture (all printed in good old England) where it was always spelled BURR. So we agreed to disagree & we used a rule wherever English/US spelling issues arose, we used GM-H paperwork as the referee.
Generally speaking GM-H used American English not English English that you & I were taught at school in Australia. Not all the time, but most of the time. For example, you don't see the word trunk used for boot, they actually call it the 'rear compartment'.
As the opening line in the Wikipedia article states "A burl (American English) or bur or burr (used in all non-US English speaking countries) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner."
So I guess a Bentley would have BURR walnut & a Cadillac would have BURL Walnut.
Dr Terry
Last edited by Dr Terry; 15-01-2014 at 08:47 PM.
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