Not Arnolds, but I used these guys quite a few years ago with great results.

http://kingoftrim.com/about-us/

 

Thanks "RAT" :yes: ....For the link!

Arnolds is not up and running yet when it comes to bright dip. So After a few hours of phone calls and Googling :turn: .... I found Anodizing Industries down in LA..... That's does it and is "Car Parts" friendly.... Most of the places that do it are for commercial type gigs.... Not for car parts. From what I've been told today, the chemicals are expensive and very dangerous. In my phone travels today I talked to them all that came up on Google. George's down in LA also, was the most helpful and most educating on the process. They knew what I was after and steered me to a another place down in LA, that does this process by hand (Custom work, mainly car parts)

Anodizing Industries is the place! Stephan is the man to talk to and knew my parts that needed help. He backed up what George's told me about the process and so on....For those reading this and are wondering what "bright dip" is all about?.... Here you go! Back in the day when GM made the grills, side moldings and interior pieces out of stamped aluminum. They were clear coated with a anodizing process know as bright dip.... A clear coat of anodizing was applied to the aluminum pieces so they would not tarnish and required no polishing.... They had a semi gloss/polished look to them from the factory.

Hence, the side molding on my '67 Chevy II....I have NOS door molding and 1/4 panel molding, but the front fender molding has been polished and the clear coating has been removed to remove dents/ scratches.... It does not match the rest of the sheen of the NOS molding. By having these pieces bright dipped, they will have the same luster/sheen once again as the NOS parts.

Again "RAT" :yes:

I thank you for the "NEW" connection, and will check them out tomorrow!

Dave

 

Let us know who you go with and why. I do think KingofTrim does the brightdip

 

I've had a lot of parts done through a trim shop in Fort Worth.

While it looks incredible after its done, the part has to be absolutely perfect or it will show through. I'd say about 75% of the parts I do look better polished without anodizing. To make one set of 63ss side trim I used about 35 pieces to get 8 perfect. The other 25 pieces I stripped the anodize back off and re polished and they look show quality, just not anodized. Any and all repairs show in my experience.

 

Here is a piece of cove molding that before anodizing, I wouldn't have hesitated on putting on a high dollar show car. After anodizing, you can see where it was lightly straightened and polished.

This was a restored set that I was able to get 3-4 pieces out of.



This was some type 2 gold anodize I had done on my steering arms and sway bar end links. Had to have professionally polish, anodize and strip 2-3 times to get show quality.


I guess what I am trying to say is, it is a lot of work and expense and you still might be dissapointed.

 

All I can add is that the work I had done (about 10 years ago now) came out every bit as good, if not better, than OEM and has stayed in that condition without anything other than an occasional wash/wax. That said, it certainly was not cheap (if memory serves about $2,500+/- for a grill, beltline trim, rocker panels, and trunk trim). I would consider it very nice, but I don't know how that differs from show-quality. It's just a nice clean driver that doesn't get a lot of TLC.

 

I would gladly have ponied up $2500 for all the trim you mentioned for my convertible, and I started with decent pieces everywhere.

But when I was looking, I called KOT, and the price estimates were astronomical...I was looking at a thousand for a '62 grille (VERY nice grille by used grille standards), and with rockers, trunk trim 3 pieces, headlight bezels, turn signals and all the aluminum for the side of the car, I was going to be north of $4K.

Realized this convert wasn't going to be a resto, so I chose polishing instead. Was happy with what GTL did for my trim, and he was reasonable.

Had I opted for a restoration, I'd have chosen KTO, and just had a long cry.

 

Ano bright inc.

back in the day I had ANO BRIGHT INC. restore and re-anodize all of my belt line trim on my 63 hardtop roughly 12 years ago if I remember right is about $800.00 for 8 pcs. beautiful work!! still looks like brand new!! yet I had primo cores for them to work with.

 

I think Ano Brite is now King of Trim.

I used them YEARS ago to do a couple of pieces, and they were superb. Reasonable, too, and I did bring some good cores. But they moved out of the San Fernando Valley and down to San Diego area, and it's a whole new ballgame.

 

That is correct. I have had King of Trim do many pieces for me, but be prepared, it is not cheap by any means, even when starting with cherry cores.

 

bright dip

theres a place n irving tx that does bright dip when the ave a large order, I had a 66 grill done there