Turtlewax chrome polish.. 40 years old (the bottle has a 1983 copywrite date...) still really damn good

as always before is 1st, and after is the 2nd image

I think its a noticeable improvement

In the above, I think it's easy to see what side I polished a little... 

but if that wasn't clear, I think this before and after will be. I hadn't cleaned the front bumper in years

did you know that chrome plating steel suspension parts makes them brittle and prone to cracking? Don't do it. Airbrush instead if you must

Starting in 1973 Formula One rules forbid chrome plating of steel suspension parts. The electroplating process had been proven to substantially worsen a phenomena known as hydrogen embrittlement. Hydrogen atoms are diffused throughout all steel alloys, and various manufacturing processes can cause them to migrate, become concentrated, and build-up in in pressure to the point where cracks start from within. Since the problem is worse with chrome plating than other finishing operations (including nickel plating), Formula One rules singled chrome plating out.

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How to blow your kids inheritance

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A couple things that caught my eye at the LaJolla Concours today

this is not a fade paint job, it's just the sunlight creating a shadow on the cowl

odd headlight in a huge bucket.... strange design choice, I guess the aesthetic look needed big lights, and the world of lights had moved on, or it's just been upgraded to halogen

chrome humor... rare stuff

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/331539540273153/

1933 Miller sprint car

Just taking a moment to appreciate chrome. Yup... I do that.

This car belongs to the Arizona Open Wheel Racing Museum in Phoenix http://www.azracingmuseum.org/index.php/az-open-wheel-racing-museum

1935 Rigling Stevens special

1931 Duesenburg, counter-clockwise rotation of the tach, speedometer tops off at 150 mph

 

 

Kng Bill loved his Harley, chrome, and yellow with red

some vehicles Steve McQueen owned were on display, and surprising me was that the GMC 4x4 was used as high school daily transportation by it's current owners kids. Think they were impressed to have a truck of Steve's?