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Re: Aluminium Windshield Posts

To: Healeyguy@aol.com, 57healey@gmail.com, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Aluminium Windshield Posts
From: RAHosmer@aol.com
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 09:03:09 EDT
Patton,

I polished my windshield posts about 35 years ago. They have stabilized to a 
pleasant (to me) silvery metallic appearance with a satin texture, not unlike 
brushed stainless steel. They were not anodized, and an occasional (like every 
five years or so) brief rub with Nev-R-Dull wadding spruces them right up. 
You do not really want them BRIGHT (like chrome) as there is way too much 
surface area. Personally, I find the natural aluminum MUCH more attractive than 
the 
original paint. 

I know many will disagree, and I know you will lose concours points, but I 
have seen FAR, FAR worse things done to our cars. My car has always been 
garaged, in northern CA, so my atmospheric conditions have not been as bad as 
Perry's.  Just my .02 :-)

Dick Hosmer
BT718556 tricarb




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