In early 76 Chrysler developed photoelastic stamping analysis to look at the stretch of a stamped, pressed part. A seemingly complicated process back then.
One thing I love on our F-s is the although cheap, easily scuffed, ect is the moldings, trim. Especially the nos junk as it shows the stretch and the hues of the anodized process. Ive noticed the headlight buckets really show the stretch.
My nos 76 duster bezels dont show like the F-s do, more of a hard stamp with a shine vs a big stretch of the material. Of course im sure this isnt F specific as id bet other 76 or??? parts were the same and if you look at some of the ford stuff the mfg. process seems to be the same.
Is there any huge connection to Chrysler developing this process and other things, not sure.
I took some pics of a nos 76 bucket and enhanced them a bit for kicks to show the stretch that I love to see so much on some of our parts.
Im into facts, not pixie dust, unicorns, big foot so other then wondering if there might be a slight connection ( I came to the conclusion there is due to the batch of pictures involved with this one) but who knows.
I know if I tried I could do better on the pics, but it was late and I was just up cleaning and dicking around.
But id rather think it was more about things like the stamped/pressed unibody parts.
So either dig it or YAWN, I think its all pretty cool.