The First Ruf Rear Deck Emblems were designed and produced retroactively by Dwight H. Bennett in 1985.

The First Ruf Emblem

The First Ruf Hubcaps were designed and produced retroactively by Dwight H. Bennett in 1985.

Custom Ruf Hubcaps

1940 DeSoto Handles

1940 DeSoto Handles

1947 Rolls-Royce Saoutchik Sedanca Coupé #WTA-45’s original exterior coach pulls were minutely detailed, but determined to be unsalvageable.

Rolls' Saoutchik Handles

1947 Rolls-Royce Saoutchik Sedanca Coupé #WTA-45’s original exterior coach pulls were minutely detailed and complicated to reproduce.

Saoutchik Coach Pull Ring

1947 Rolls-Royce Saoutchik Sedanca Coupé #WTA-45’s original exterior coach pulls in an early phase of reproduction by Dwight H. Bennett.

Saoutchik Coach Pull Bale

Back-leaning Bentley B Hood Ornament in process of replacing metal lost during over exuberant polishing and enhancing the detail of worn-out feathers by Dwight H. Bennett.

Bentley Detailing Exercise

Road & Track Magazine’s Rear Deck Emblem that was used in an article on the Honda CRX was designed and hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

R&T Magazine's Emblem

Road & Track Magazine’s Rear Deck Emblem, as it appeared in an article on the Honda CRX, was designed and hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

Deck Emblem in R&T

Porsche 911-R Badge (the “R” designates racing/rallying) made with an R derived from Porsche’s typography, hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

Porsche 911-R Emblem

These Apollo Emblems were meticulously reproduced using the same unorthodox method as the early prototypical badges by Dwight H. Bennett.

Apollo Emblems

Original 1933 Cadillac V12 horn buttons before they were destroyed during a plating company’s fiasco.

Cadillac V12 Horn Buttons

Original 1933 Cadillac V12 horn button destroyed during plating, and some early steps of hand-fabricating replacement buttons from scratch by Dwight H. Bennett.

Reproducing V12 Buttons

One of the reproduced 1933 Cadillac V12 Horn Buttons that was meticulously hand-fabricated from scratch by Dwight H. Bennett.

Repro Cadillac V12 Button

1936 Buick 8 Horn Button’s before and after photos of the meticulous restoration by Dwight H. Bennett.

1936 Buick 8 Horn Button

Imperial Airflow Hood Ornament

1934 CV Imperial Airflow Model

1937 Cadillac V8 Emblem before and after the meticulous restoration by Dwight H. Bennett.

Cadillac V8 Emblems

One of these 2 Alfas, both restored to “like new” condition (2 cars apart in the same concours), has pedals that could have been reproduced to look new by Dwight H. Bennett.

Alfa with Worn-out Pedals?

Original 1936 Buick 8 Champlevé Emblem with an obliterated detail removed during one plater’s idea of a “repair.”

Champlevé Buick 8

1936 Buick 8 Champlevé Emblem, before photo of obliterated detail by a plater, and an after photo of the involved meticulous repair by Dwight H. Bennett.

Buick 8 Damage & Repair

Lance Reventlow’s Single Surviving Scarab Champlevé Badge before reproduction and restoration by Dwight H. Bennett.

Reventlow's Scarab Badge

All of Lance Reventlow’s Scarab Race Cars all have reproduction champlevé badges hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

Scarab Repro Badges

Road & Track Magazine’s Horn Button Emblem that was used in an article on the Honda CRX was designed and hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

R&T Horn Button

Road & Track Magazine’s Horn Button Emblem, as it appeared in an article on the Honda CRX, was designed and hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

R&T Button, Honda Hubs

Lost Abarth Fiat Headlight Pod Lens’ Bezels were hand-fabricated from scratch by Dwight H. Bennett.

New Headlight Lens' Bezel

Abarth Fiat Headlight Pod Lens’ Bezels were hand-fabricated from scratch, and then the lenses were trimmed and mounted by Dwight H. Bennett.

Headlight Bezels & Lenses

Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Carburetor Spray Chamber used on this 1914 Labourdette Skiff was cast by Dwight H. Bennett.

R-R Carb Spray Chamber

Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Carburetor Spray Chamber’s shrinkage is corrected by hand-fabricating a new model and molds by Dwight H. Bennett.

Carburetor Spray Chamber

The first “enlarged” Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Carburetor Spray Chamber cast from the new model and molds recreated by Dwight H. Bennett.

Repro Spray Chamber

Damaged Apollo Wind-Wing Lever made by using the lever from the other side as a visual resource then reproduced by hand by Dwight H. Bennett.

Apollo Wind-Wing Levers

Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy made using dimensional guidelines set forth by the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club, with enhanced details typically lost during reproduction, by Dwight H. Bennett.

Repro R-R Spirt of Ecstasy

Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy at Pebble Beach Concours meticulously recreated to the guidelines of the Rolls-Royce Owners’ Club by Dwight H. Bennett.

Repro at Pebble Beach

Nardi Horn Button

A Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Fishtail Exhaust Tip at Newport Concours recreated by Dwight H. Bennett.

Rolls-Royce Fish Tail

Worn-out Coach Plates?

R&T's Trophy Horn Button

The First TRD Emblems used on Toyota’s high performance Supras for publicity photos in 1989 were designed and hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

Supra's First TRD Emblem

The First TRD Emblem, as it appeared on the Supra’s grill in this photo from Import Automotive Parts & Accessories Magazine, was designed and hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

Toyota Emblem in AIPA

Henri Labourdette Carrossier (Coach) Plate reproduction, and a “Buess Labourdette” modified coach plate, both hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

Labourdette Coach Plates

Willys’ Window Crank with a rotating knob was broken and the design motif on a missing section was improvised on the reproduction that was hand-fabricated by Dwight H. Bennett.

Willys' Repro Crank

2 views of the same Healey Elliott Champlevé Badge as received to be repaired, reproduced and restored by Dwight H. Bennett.

Healey Elliott Champlevé

2 Healey Elliott Champlevé Badges after the original was repaired, molded and restored (above) and reproduced (below) by Dwight H. Bennett.

Healey Elliott Champlevés

Porsche 2.9 Emblem

“Kinnebrew-Duffy” (Studebaker) Dealer Script, on the car since new, was retained after the broken “E” was replaced and emblem restored by Dwight H. Bennett.

Dealer Script Repair

Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost-era open-end wrenches with lettering enhanced prior to casting these steel reproductions by Dwight H. Bennett.

R-R Repro Open-ends

Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost-era box-spanner wrenches with lettering enhanced prior to casting these steel reproductions by Dwight H. Bennett.

R-R Repro Box-spanners

1937 Cadillac V12 Emblems, photos of before and after the emblems were meticulously restored by Dwight H. Bennett.

Cadillac V12 Emblems

1939 Cadillac Hood Emblem, photos of before and after the emblem was meticulously restored by Dwight H. Bennett.

Cadillac Hood Emblem

Cadillac Hood Ornament

1954 Cadillac Hood Ornament reproduction tail in bronze made because these tails frequently break, produced by Dwight H. Bennett.

Ornament's Repro Tails

Mark II Repro Parts

Chrysler Champlevé Trunk Emblem before photo with nicks and dents, and after restoration photo, repaired and meticulously restored by Dwight H. Bennett.

Chrysler Champlevé

This Jacques Saoutchik coach plate on this Delage needs to be replaced with a new reproduction Saoutchik plate created by Dwight H. Bennett.

Worn-out Coach Plates?

AUTOMOTIVE Related Metalwork by DWIGHT H. BENNETT

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I produce detailed small quantities of rare, modified or custom parts:

●Tools

●Coach Pulls ●Coach Plates ●Hood Ornaments

●Door Lock, Latch &

●Pedals

●Dash Knobs ●Crank Covers

●Headlight Bezels

Hinge Hardware

●Emblems

●Engine Parts

●Cursive Scripts

●Custom Emblems

●Window Cranks with

●Dip Sticks ●Exhaust Tips

●Hubcap Logos

●Exterior and Interior Articulated Knobs

●Model Parts

●Horn Buttons

●Gearshift Knobs

Handles

and Bezels