65 Dart Wagon Conversion to a Sedan Delivery

65 Dartman said
I decided to spruce up the AC vent box this afternoon. Got it disassembled and the exterior cleaned and painted flat black.

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Some of the insulation inside was not in good shapeView attachment 1715808696

So I scraped it out as best as possible and used some self adhesive foil backed insulation.

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The vents and two pieces separating the middle vent from the outers had a great deal of pitting. Steel wool didn’t even make a dent in them. So i dug out some 320 and went to town on the vents and other 2 pieces. Finally Had to go with 80 on the 2 connecting pieces. The vents didn’t turn out too bad after sanding and finishing up with steel wool. There was no way I was going to be able to do anything with the actual louvers
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The pieces separating the outer vents are supposed to be chrome plated - not gonna happen - maybe later. so I elected to paint them flat black to match the housing.

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After assembling everything I decided those black pieces looked out of place

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So I pulled them off and shot them with some “chrome” paint

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After reinstalling them they look much better in silver than in black. Shiny chrome plating would have been ideal, but one has to do what one has to do!

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Not a bad afternoon’s work!

had you tried the self adhesive aluminum tape that's used on house and business a/c dusting to seal the joins. i had a roll from a mate that worked in that industry and as long as you get it on without wrinkles it polishes up just like an ally casting. almost chrome and better than most chrome aerosols.
neil.