Now, Don't Jinx Me! Finally, A Red Update for you all. . .

Then, on to the buffers. Grey stick compound to cut a bit more metal and to polish; white to remove the scratches and polish more. Also have red rouge if I get ambitious.

These are intended as driver quality, but: it is so hard to hang rough parts on the car without at least making the effort to clean and improve them somewhat. I intend for them to still wear some blemishes, just not so many as they do now!

The left side will be more difficult, as will the headlight bezels. The headlight bezels have an extra screw hole found in '68 parts and a lot more weathering and dents. I haven't found so many examples to buy- and my original I smashed pretty much into junk on the rear of a Ford F-150.

The left grille was also smashed in the same impact. I have a two whole surrounds in poor shape, with the attaching studs all but rusted away. I am going to have to replace those studs in some fashion. . .and am leaning toward breaking down a grille completely into component parts by cutting the rivets, then processing the parts into "clean" pieces I would hang on a car (the straighten and polish routine), then replace the studs with equivalents as I pop rivet the pieces back together. Paint after.

The complete right side has taken about a full day to straighten and polish. . .

. . .but the prices I have seen for grilles when I can find them. . .!

To be continued, of course. Thanks for reading:D