How to redo rocker panels
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Safety Car
Joined: Nov 2004
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From: Mundelein Illinois
How to redo rocker panels
Well I like the look of 77 rocker panels, but I never liked 81 rocker panels. I purchased 80 rocker panels because they showed some alluminum. So here's what I did
Pic of how it looked
I stripped all the black with paint stripper, then cleaned with steel wool
Primed and painted with
Polished with Mothers Alluminum polish
What do you think.
Pic of how it looked
I stripped all the black with paint stripper, then cleaned with steel wool
Primed and painted with
Polished with Mothers Alluminum polish
What do you think.
Last edited by spedaleden; Jan 10, 2008 at 05:07 PM. Reason: Spell check
Melting Slicks
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From: Nevada City California
Well, I think you did a nice job. I personally like the rocker mouldings as they were in your first picture better. I think it is because the small amount of aluminum showing is more in balance with the Corvette body style that doesn't exhibit chrome bumpers. Your refinished panels certainly stand out, but without front and rear chrome to balance it, I think yours eyes focus to much on the panels and not the car as a whole.
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Safety Car
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 4,359
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From: Mundelein Illinois
Well, I think you did a nice job. I personally like the rocker mouldings as they were in your first picture better. I think it is because the small amount of aluminum showing is more in balance with the Corvette body style that doesn't exhibit chrome bumpers. Your refinished panels certainly stand out, but without front and rear chrome to balance it, I think yours eyes focus to much on the panels and not the car as a whole.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Long Island New York
I think it really depends on what the color of the car is. In your case I think the black window moldings are the way to go on a black car, silver would not look good on it unless it was a chrome bumper car. On my Silver car I stripped all of the black paint off the window trim and polished it with Mothers and it looks great. I think the polished aluminum looks better on a Silver car than the black does and helps to accent the color of My car and My ceramic coated sidepipes.
Drifting
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i repainted mine a couple years ago and they are holding up very well
scroll to the bottom of the page to see them.
http://hometown.aol.com/coronet69/page10.html
i also think repainted they set the sidepipes off
really well.
scroll to the bottom of the page to see them.
http://hometown.aol.com/coronet69/page10.html
i also think repainted they set the sidepipes off
really well.
