Who needs chrome?

[D-Day]

With my old chrome headlight bezels faded and pitted, I needed a new look. While I didn't wanna dish out the money for a set of NOS chrome bezels, which go pretty expensive sometimes, and despising cheap plastic chrome, I decided to paint mine.

Since chrome can often be an unsavory surface to paint, and make it stick longterm, I etched it with POR-15 Metal Ready first to give it a good surface to adhere to.



After I did the bezels themselves, I noticed a problem. The chrome strips above and below the grille. They looked out of place, top and bottom in horizontal fashion. I also noticed the faded paint behind the bezels and the crappy rusting headlight rings were highlighted by the freshly painted black bezels. Well, that just wouldn't work for me, so I etched the chrome pieces and painted them too. Also the chrome headlight rings, and painted the fading area behind the bezels. Looks much better now.