Re: paint

[farna@xxxxxxx]

The doors aren't real complicated on the early models. Bend a piece of aluminum sheet up...???

On January 27, 2006 Tom Jennings wrote:

> The Hornet grilles are painted black (one bar left clear). It's a
> terrible shame, as underneath that paint is beautiful clear anodized
> aluminum. It seems clear to me the car was designed for the clear
> anodized color, then a last minute style decision that it looked too
> 1960's (where that sort of grille was very common -- early Impala...),
> and in '73 of course they went to the contoured black plastic grille.
> 
> I really want to keep it unpainted; the problem is the craptacular
> plastic headlamp doors. I need to find a way to paint them to look just
> like (not just "close") anodized aluminum. It's hard! To make things
> worse, they're made out of a really crappy plastic, and being on the
> corner of the car, are usually badly cracked. It's hard to find good
> ones cheap (I will have to spring $$$ for NOS ones if they are even
> available).
> 


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