[Healeys] Grille surround.

[Oudesluys]

Simon,
One of our club members has had excellent results with difficult to 
restore chrome work with chrome paint spraying by a specialist firm. The 
results are astonishing. You could only detect the difference from real 
chrome by the touch: metal cold, paint less so.
It saved him a lot of work and costs as the preparation of the surface 
is much simpler for paintwork than for real chrome plating and the 
result is really stunning.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL
> Subject: [Healeys] Grille surround.
>
> Some guidance please...............
> 1) I have a MkII BT7. So, the chrome "grille surround" on my car has got a
> rust hole in it. (Strange, as the rest of it really looks OK; this hole
> seems to have appeared from nowhere!) I shall have to replace it or have it
> repaired and rechromed. Any thoughts on that?
> But, but....when I bought the car it came with the near obligatory box of
> bits/pile of junk. Amongst these was a rather tatty looking "grille
> surround" which I dug out of the attic today. After a good clean and polish
> it looks OKish and I'm not sure about having it rechromed or not. I'll
> probably have both the "top cowl" and the "grille surround" done as that's
> such a pig of an area to work in that I may as well make it worthwhile with
> rechromed parts? (I've got the wind deflectors, mud flap thingies et al so
> it's a crowded area).
> 2) Anyhow.....I gather that the MkI grille area bits are different from the
> MkII but the suppliers' diagrams and lists all seem a bit ambiguous to me. I
> don't want to take mine apart until the autumn so I can't compare like with
> like. Am I right in thinking that, if the piece is a sort of squashed
> one-piece oval, then it'll fit a MKII BT7 as well as a BJ7 & a BJ8??
> Simon.
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