It would be a huge waste to paint any trim if you're really just trying to get out of the car. You will just break even or go over-budget on supplies and the new owner might get the car and just throw them away and buy NOS ones again after doing all that senseless work lol. But yeah it would look better to do it how 565bbc said if you were going to rock the car for a long time. If you don't strip the trim completely it looks bad a couple years later
Black Chrome Cutlass
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On my '87 I just removed all of the chrome instead of painting it. Only trim I kept was the window moldings and the cowl piece but those were all powder coated satin black.
It takes some work doing this way because to get rid of the chrome roof drip rails you have to shave them and then blend into the A-pillars. There's also a dip in the A-pillar that shows when you remove the trim. That needed filled as well.
Rear of the car but haven't installed the trim around the window yet:
Keep in mind too that most of the trim isn't actually chrome. It's either stainless steel or anodized aluminum.
It takes some work doing this way because to get rid of the chrome roof drip rails you have to shave them and then blend into the A-pillars. There's also a dip in the A-pillar that shows when you remove the trim. That needed filled as well.
Rear of the car but haven't installed the trim around the window yet:
Keep in mind too that most of the trim isn't actually chrome. It's either stainless steel or anodized aluminum.
Well I think it's ingenious. I lost my taste for door chrome when some idiot in a van ruined one of my door chromes on my 93 fleetwood. Everyone on ebay wanted $50-100 for that piece I was like fk that I'm not paying $50 for a piece of plastic.
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