Since the factory did thousands of these, I would assume that they were sprayed- they look like that. However the wood was very cheap and rough. I patched a couple small holes before I painted and in the right light they show up as smoother than the rest. So- difficult to duplicate exactly.
It also seems to depend on the year and plant. I posted this on facebook as well and had a 67 owner say his was flocked, a 68 member say a textured paint and then a 69 say it was just matte black paint.
