Re: Chrome, gold plating, brush plating, vapor deposition

Posted by HH56 On 2016/1/23 15:48:15
I haven't examined an assy up close so could be all wet but with the placement location on the lens I doubt the V would have allowed light transmission. I think it was more an advertisement for the V8 engine and would have just been an inexpensive version of the same ornamental statement as the V in the grill on senior cars.

If part of the plastic lens, almost all the plastic emblems on the outside of car were done with some kind of process that deposited a coating on the inside of plastic for the color to show thru and then that coating was covered with another coat or two of paint or some impervious substance to make the color part weather proof. From what I remember that coating was gray and opaque so no light would have passed.

How the inside was painted or coated to do the color is the $64 question. There are a few on the forum now trying to figure that out so they can restore their emblems. I know I have tried just about every paint available at retail and nothing tried yet has the brilliance of the original finish after being viewed thru the plastic. The way the old stuff flakes off and kind of corrodes I am almost convinced it was some kind of metalization process.

Am sure someone will eventually figure it out and places like emblem magic and another shop that did restos already have but so far no one has wanted to pass the info on.

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