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Post by Landonus Fri Feb 03, 2012 2:16 pm

My dash bothered me every time I looked at it so I went to Ben Franklin's (arts and crafts store) and bought a silver paint pen. It's not chrome like original but it looks way better than it did. Also painted the front grille black and striped the outer lip silver. Let me know what you guys think.Dash chrome pinstriping Dash1_10Dash chrome pinstriping Dash_110Dash chrome pinstriping Dash_210Dash chrome pinstriping Dash_211Dash chrome pinstriping 2011-010Dash chrome pinstriping 2011-011
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Post by Mcarlo77 Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:00 pm

Looks good, man! This is really the only option to detailing the edging without spending some signicant cash to send them out to be rechromed via vacuum metallizing.
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Post by Landonus Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:13 pm

Yah. I found out there is chrome fingernail polish after I did it. You apply it in 3 separate coats. Too tedious fer me though...
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Post by ant7377 Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:55 am

You really still have a Ben Franklins near you ?! Where do you live ? ! The last one closed here ten years ago.Good store too .
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Post by Landonus Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:08 am

East TN. Kingsport city next to bristol if you are a race fan.
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Post by Limey SE Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:29 am

Hey Landonus look up dragons_lair59 He is in Kingsport as well !! Good Guy his Name is Sam !! And would love to make it to Bristol in Lights this year !!

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Post by Tom77 Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:09 am

Landonus wrote:Yah. I found out there is chrome fingernail polish after I did it. You apply it in 3 separate coats. Too tedious fer me though...

Thats where the wife comes in. Mine did a great job! Very Happy
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Post by knightfan26917 Sat Feb 04, 2012 2:25 pm

Landonus wrote:My dash bothered me every time I looked at it so I went to Ben Franklin's (arts and crafts store) and bought a silver paint pen. It's not chrome like original but it looks way better than it did. Also painted the front grille black and striped the outer lip silver. Let me know what you guys think.

DEFINITE improvement! Looks awesome.



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Post by HDHugger Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:01 am

I did the same thing with mine, silver sharpie. It can rub off easily but what's the big deal on reapplying it every so often?

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Post by 74MonteCarlo Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:29 am

HDHugger wrote:I did the same thing with mine, silver sharpie. It can rub off easily but what's the big deal on reapplying it every so often?

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If you don't touch it, it won't rub off. I did mine once...I just don't touch it. No need to.

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Post by BlackChevelleSS Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:16 pm

yea but even the paint rubs off after a while.

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Post by 77mali Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:03 pm

Can the sharpie be clear coated? Think I'm going to try that eventually but both bezels I have are off so it'll be harder to do on the dash.
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Post by Shaunaconda Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:10 am

HDHugger wrote:I did the same thing with mine, silver sharpie. It can rub off easily but what's the big deal on reapplying it every so often?

Did you use the oil based or water based silver sharpie?

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Post by dragons_lair59 Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:30 pm

in the model world there is a product called bare metal foil its chrome and designed to stick to plastic Very Happy
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Post by dragons_lair59 Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:31 pm

Landonus wrote:East TN. Kingsport city next to bristol if you are a race fan.

its off of 11 W /Stone drive
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Post by JiMi_DRiX Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:20 pm

I did mine with a silver sharpie, works great, nice job on yours! Smile
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