Owner-operator Dawson Taylor’s “Roll of the Dice” 2020 Freightliner Cascadia’s numerous custom touches – interior upholstery work, paint, stainless accents, among others – include serious use of a technique I previously encountered on the dash panels of the Dustbusters company's 1980 Kenworth W900A custom roll-back, earlier this year.
Martin Herman, part of the build team for that 1980 W900A, explained in the
On owner-operator Taylor's 2020 Freightliner, that use of so-called "hydrographics" -- or "hydro dipping" -- was taken to another level entirely. Taylor added various graphics to trim pieces on the cab doors, on the APU the rig's outfitted with on the exterior, and all around the rig, really.
This picture shows hydro-dipped paneling up top and accenting areas all along the dash near the bottom.
The owner-operator came to the technique after frustrations with the scarcity of made-to-order custom chrome and other parts for the Cascadia -- certainly compared to other Pete and Kenworth models -- led him to detailed paint and other work on the inside and out of the rig. He used the hydro-dip technique on a variety of pieces of both the interior and exterior of the Cascadia, with a motif befitting his big-gamble theme and its dice.
Taylor's hydro-dipping brought him a
