[BaadAssGremlins] Re: colored coded bumpers

[<eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Part of the reason so few chroming places is the Feds shut them down! Here 
in Houston we have three, but hell, we are the 4th largest city in US. 
Something I would (should have before) suggest here on my comments about 
having a bumper denickled and dechromed is locally, go to mixed make cruise 
nigths and car shows. This is advise I have given for over 20 years. It is a 
excellent way to find out who does what in the area like engine rebuilds, 
trans, paint, body, interior, chrome, you name it. It does not matter what 
type of car, the best thing is to simply strike up conversation with other 
old car owners and ask them who did what type of work.

As for Hemming's Motor News, funny you mention them. I used to subscribe to 
over 30 different national car magazines and advertised in most, if not all 
of them. I just dropped my Hemming's Motor News subscription two months ago 
(gee and they had a nice mention of me in there too darn it) but dropped 
them simply because I don't have time to read stuff anymore. I was a 
subscriber since 1984! 21 years!

About the only crap I get to read now is Telletubbies, Barney, Sesame 
Street, Clifford the Big Red Dog, (you think New Orlenas is a mess, imagine 
living in a neighborhood where a 40 foot dog drops a crap!!!) and other 
kiddie things like Calliou.

The photo here is of Paige showing off her big bumpers. Actually, she was 
fixing to go volunteer at Catholic Charities for a huge group of Katrina 
refugees here from New Orleans area, and this front bumper I had just had 
done locally at DC, fixing to ship it out to Baton Rouge, LA. DC does 
excellent work here and I highly recommend them, have sold over 200 bumpers 
thru the years they have rechromed, or denicked/dechromed.
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: <AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: colored coded bumpers


> Eddie have you checked about bumper chrome  places lately? 99.9 % died
> years ago with the invention of the plastic bumper cover. Look in
> Hemmings, last time I looked you maybe had 4-5 scattered across the
> country, most local chrome places are small and do mostly motorcycle
> parts and can not handle a large item such as a bumper, never mind
> straighten one. An alternative is to take it to a place who know's how
> to sand blast properly without destroying the part to remove the nickel
> and chrome. I have been thinking about that for my orange car, sand
> blast them and paint them body color for a mono-chromatic effect. Bumper
> shops were a dime a dozen 30 years ago in in the N.Y. Metro Area, now
> there is not a one.
> "Doc"
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