Re: Hub Cap CLOISSONE

Posted by Highlander160 On 2015/12/5 13:27:36

I've never seen (or read from) someone so incurably in love with chrome radiator shells. Castrated? Really? When I've painted them I simply have their chrome stripped, sand em up with 150 or 180, apply a coat of etch primer and then off to the standard procedure. A grinder? Freakin hacks do that. Perhaps some are better suited to early Ford or Corvette restoration. Any of the heavy American iron that are referred to as Classics, and what some of us have dedicated a large portion of our passion to, there's one universal constant. That was the Great Depression. It hit harder from 32-34 than it did during the 1st years following the crash, and does that seem like the right time to offer cars for 3 to even 20 times the cost of a same model year Ford? Would they do what that customer wanted back then to sell that car? Of course not, right? "Screw you Mr. Baller of 1933! You get this damn Packard the way I sell it to you!" Back to normal (as if), while there were indeed standards of production, even limited production, there was still that "job shop" philosophy that went to the needs and demands of that market. Some were wild and outlandish, some very staid and perhaps even blah in final finish/options. I'm with West, painted shells look better. They're exponentially better on what I refer to as the "Dietrich Cowl" cars, those being the 34 Cpe Roadster, Conv Victoria and Conv Sedan. The low waistline those cars have, the short shell, they nearly demand paint up there. It's not WRONG, and it's also not RIGHT. It's a choice that was available then and certainly now. And yes too, let me know when you're selling a painted shell 34. For $20K under market I'm in...;-P