[davepl]

I have silver arms and the ugly black (but high quality) wiper blades with all of the little flex points and so on. They're ugly as sin, but I live in Seattle.

FWIW, I've found the Eastwood "Alumablast" paint to be very close to the way the original arms looked.

I actually had to use the factory wipers on my '69 Pontiac and I don't know how those people survived back then. I guess I did, and that includes Saskatchewan winters too, I'm just spoiled by modern cars. Heck, my actual windshield is heated now!