someone wrote on the dash, signature under the vinyl? Options

[worn]

I was replacing the foam and dash vinyl when I realized that the squiggles on the metal were letters in cursive writing. This is just to the left of the instrument area.

It looks to me like someone in the factory signed the car. Was that at all common? When I put the new foam on, I tried to glue around the letters.

[wonkipop]

@worn

sure looks like a signed name.
h. elfemheim is what i think it maybe is after looking hard at it.

i have my old left hand drive dash but the foam + vinyl is still intact in that area and i don't really want to peel it all off.

i have the usual crayon production number scrawled in red/brown crayon.
but some additional stuff as well.
there is "rot" written in cursive. meaning red.
its a blue sprayed dash frame that went into my car which is a phoenix red car.

and also the number "65".

different hand writing to that, though it is cursive.
all visible on the underside so obviously instructions for assembly line workers for installation.

no sure why you would sign your name in that location.
other than the old tradition that workers got uo to.
leaving their mark in hidden places.
if that is what it is its kinda nice. means they wanted to sign it.

a lot of the german tanks from world war 2 were signed by the workers in odd places.
along with the odd curse in russian if you were a slave laborer.

[worn]

sure looks like a signed name.
h. elfemheim

Thanks for the interpretation

i have the usual crayon production number scrawled in red/brown crayon.
but some additional stuff as well.
there is "rot" written in cursive. meaning red.

Or a foreboding sense of the future. But then, I cut as much of it out as I could.
Wish that I had known the blokes, and that we all had more time.