rarity of special chromed vs standard painted items

[EK DAZ]

Hi Folks, I do know that the GMH records for all NZ assembled cars for FE/FC and FB/EK models suvive. I haven't seen the FB/EK records,but have held and read thru the FE/FC ones. These were a hand written ledgers giving colours,body no's,engine no's, the date of dispatch from the plant and the name of the ship the vehicles were loaded onto for despatch as well as the dealers that the vehicle was bound for.At the time I had an FC sedan which was the 47th body and these details listed, matched up with the history that I new of.

[MeFB]

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[vmx-mxr]

I'm being pressured to fit chromed pieces to my ute but I like the simple standard look, I'm having trouble finding standard headlight surrounds (I think mine are chromed) also have noticed though I have sourced a standard dash and radio blanking plate these were hard to find.

any particular reason standard trims are hard to find?

Allison

You should be able to source plenty of cheap but tired chromed bits although most will have the usual flaws like blistering etc but if they are stripped by a quality elecro-plater (shouldn't cost much for that) you will be back to having the bare bones for what you want for little outlay. If someone in town has a bead blasting cabinet a light going over won't hurt to ensure the surface is paint ready but make sure they use glass bead not garnet or aluminium oxide as it may be too harsh for the old alloys in the parts.

There is no reason you can't use the parts you currently have for the above so they are all prepped the same.

Dave Mac