Herb
All of my chrome was re-used
bumpers, windsheild post, rear plate surround
I reused all of the windshields stainless and just polished it on my baldor buffer. Some of the windshild trim pieces I had to tap out a small nic/dent I filled a pillow case with sand from my blasting cabinet and then just pushed, tweaked, manipulated the dents/nics with anything and everything I could find laying around the house.I ended up shaping differant shapes on a childs wooden bat I had found at a garage sale (I always stop in garage sales looking for old tools, Dont specifly go out to them but If I see one I stop)
All of my other bright work, including the fender tops was purchased as re-production pieces
I started to order the bright work the day I made a deal on the 62 as I figured I was going to run out of money or parts were going to be back ordered.
I did allot of buisness with paragon and it seamed most of the stuff cames from trim parts.
The grill surrounds did not fit well. I spent hours fitting them to the car, then having the body shop fit the car to them.
The only thing I was not thrilled with are the marker lights and the tail lights as every now and then You have to fiddle with the electrical connection as a light may go out.
Also the surround that goes around the center heater console (seperating the carpet from the painted area) is starting to pit.
I encountered 2 back orders on my car
1-was the rear convertable latch tie downs
2-was the horn button. I originally wanted to keep the original horm button for the car just for the oldness of it but after polishing it ,it still looked like an ole POS horn button so I replaced it
I purchased my parts in like 1000 to 800 dollar orders as I was making deals with suppliers on shipping charges and discounts.
I was probably getting orders every week
