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I sell wheel lip moldings used in good shape for
$50 each, but difficult to find anymore, just sold a mint set of them for 67-69
Rebel, my last set although have several with small dings cheaper. On the dings,
there is a place on my vendors list called "the finishing touch" that can make
them look NOS, they also do supreb work on hood chromes for 68-69 and 71-74 aMXs
and Javelin and can probably do other stainless.
One thing I want to also mention I didn't in the
other email. On the wheelwell trim, I have always had a hard on for those and
never liked them. The reason is simple why I pull them off any cars I get in and
wish to "keep" or "restore". They are the leading cause of 1/4 panel rust on the
rear. I have written about this before for some of the national rags, hell,
going back into the early 1980s.
But they sit flush against the sheetmetal. They get
dust and particles trapped between the (now expensive if you can even find it)
1/4 sheetmetal and the trim. And it does not mater whether your car is garaged,
show car, museum, sometime, some where you will wash it, and hopefully drive it.
And then the process starts all over again.
To prove this I just pulled off a 1/4 trim on this
1971 Matador with 14,000 miles I sold (and the guy has thank God almost finished
paying it off) and under the trim was a thin layer of soot. And as I showed a
local fellow who is restoring a 67 Rebel, 343, 4spd, under that soot....was
bubbles in the 1/4, caused by the dust.
My suggestion if you simply HAVE to go back with
the little useless trim (and this goes for vinyl tops also, don't get me started
on those!) but if you must go back with those trims, please clean it out under
there and then run yourself several coats of POR-15 in the wheel lip, to as
where it WON'T SHOW once it dries and you put your trim back on.
You will thank me personally at the 2030 AMC
Nationals in Cut & Shoot, Texas.
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