Thanks for the advise Doc, I have always thought I was doing something wrong, but thought it was just the paint fumes! I may add that several 69 AMX & Javelin hooded overlays Mr. G's have done for me, had the tunnels chromed (few early 69's had this option, and it was quickly outlawed by the federal govermnet as it made it extremely hard to read the gauges, the tunnels would bend and reflect the gauge and looked, well, looked like you were on lsd) but they did a excellent job, about $125 for each unit, that was years ago however. I thought about having them do the overlay on my 69 SC/Rambler 'wagon' and then decided it would probably look great gloss black, and turned out really good. Pulled out the unit and sprayed it with 5 coats, all the gauges were taken out and here is a photo of the result, and it is striking to look at up close, had some local AMCers stop by yesterday and thought it look 'modern' was one's word! All that for a $1 store black can of gloss black! Again, thanks Doc for the advice, your paint and model building skills and tips is very much appreciated!!!! Eddie Stakes' Planet Houston AMX www.planethoustonamx.com "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxx> wrote: I may add that Mr. G's of Fort Worth listed on my vendors list professionally rechromes interior plastic pieces for any vehicle. I personally have never had any success rechroming interior pieces myself with spray cans, and have tried a variety of methods. Maybe it is just me but it always ends up worse than began with! Eddie Stakes' Planet Houston AMX www.planethoustonamx.com Doc replied: You still have a problem even if you have one of these places rechrome your plastic parts like the bezels on you inst. panel and that is you have to mask up the chrome and paint the panel to match the interior. Maybe because I am a model builder and paint my own stripes this is easy for me. I repair and paint the panel then mask it up to paint the silver last then top cote it with clear. If you don't top cote the silver with clear it will smudge and rub off. The disadvantage to this is that when the clear is applied the silver loses it's brilliance and takes on a pearl like appearance but will not rub off. Since this is not a resto job and I like the way the silver looks since I did my other Hornet the same way I will use the silver with clear over it. I use 3M Fine Lne Blue tape to mask everything up. This dash will be basically the same as my other Hornet except with a column shifter and a factory under package tray gauge pod a friend gave me a few years ago. > "Doc"
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