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Old 10-22-2019, 07:28 PM   #9
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Re: Painted door edge guards?

If you are tinting the windows, maybe it would look good with black paint. I made some chrome things go away (like rear fender struts and horseshoe oil tank) on my black FLST to allow the chrome I wanted to stand out show better

I powder coated stainless vent visors on the '90 Blazer I had right away. It was solid red with a black top. GM had taken a lot of chrome off the '88-up square bodies, like around the windows. I got the windows tinted dark and felt the vent visors belonged being black. By then the current style vehicles went to the smoked plastic ones. It was half in the '70s and half in 1990 with some chrome staying and other stuff now black, like windshield wipers/mirrors, or gone like fender emblems. I wanted to powder coat the door handles but never did. Also wanted to powder coat the brushed part of the tailgate trim panel, only leaving the thin outer chrome that went with the tail light chrome. I put no trim front side markers on and powder coated the rallyes gloss black. Left the trim rings off and stripped the argent paint to expose chrome on the center cap flanges. I did some of what I wanted before accepting how it was. I just wanted to minimize the chrome a little more.
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