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Thanks Paul. I did one better for the hood. I shot it with another coat of Black Lacquer. After a couple of days I'll wet sand that smooth as I've got a flake of dust in it and re-gloss it.

Ok. I've got the headlamps installed and am now working on the grille. I really like the custom one that is shown on the box top but it needs a lot of clean up which means...........well......stripping all the chrome off, cleaning up the mess and .............you know..........applying Alclad in place of the kit chrome. The stock grille doesn't look as good in my opinion but doesn't require even half of the work. Looks like I'd better get the Easy Off oven cleaner ready for the chrome stripping process...........

With the stock grille



and with the custom grille: (Yeah.........we'll go with this one!)

The best way that I have used to strip kit chrome is bleach, good ole clorox, but the oven cleaner may work as well so I guess Ill give it a shot on the next car kit I do. I am like you, Joe. That last grille looks best.

I may give the bleach a shot as well. Thanks for the comments Paul.

I agree about the second grill. Much better looking. I've also used Windex to strip my chrome. Just another thought.

Thanks Mark.

A shot of the rear bumper with the license plate installed. I'll be attaching a couple of PE mounting screw heads to this now that I'm looking at it in photos to add a little more "flavor" to the plate.



and here's a shot of the front bumper after Alclad application. Still gotta fill in the park lamps with amber but I'm happy with the results so far. I also got the windshield, vent windows and steering wheel installed.

An overall progress shot:

Stunning work! This is really coming a long extremely well.

Thanks Mark. There are some areas that I need to touch up on this thing as far as the body goes but I'm at the point to where some of it I'm almost afraid to do anything with. At this stage things can get very unforgiving for me and it's either don't do anything about it or take the chance to correct it and risk starting all over again with the body. After what I've been through with this thing, starting over with the body would result in at least a 2 month set back and another set of decals that I'd have to get printed and shipped to me.

Anyways here's what's left out of that list I had a couple of pages back. I'm almost there...........

1. Rearview Mirror and “Tree”
2. Install Rear Bumper
3. Install Radiator Hoses and clamps
4. Install Body Onto Chassis
5. Install Door Handles
6. Gloss Coat Hood Assembly
7. Install filler placard for area below rear door

Excellent work so far-- love the Alclad finish on the bumpers!

Wouh Joe, can hardly wait for the grand finale pictures! :-)

- Kari