Re: 22nd series rear bumper web- painted or not?

Posted by bkazmer On 2014/6/12 11:19:07

The early cars had painted centers, as the photos show, It makes sense visually to me - the chrome edges pick up the line of the stainless lower molding. Later there are are chrome ones (I've seen this on a 1949 22nd series Std 8. The front is the "open mouth" version with all chrome).

I think this was a response to get more bling on the car as tastefully understated was going out of style, and few Cadillacs of the era were accused of it.