In a message dated 11/7/2004 8:13:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, Bikerdaver@aol.com writes:
<< There is a proper name for this type of paint technique, but I don't know it. >>
Chromo vellato.
<< I would only add that this technique appears to be a fore-runner to actual metallic paint jobs that also took off in popularity in the 60s. Then there were the "candy" colors, but I digress. >>
Metallic (as well as Candy Apple or what the British call Flamboyants) date back to the 1940s at least.
Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC