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| What car nut can resist a little chrome? |
There hasn't been much work going on with the Mustang for the past few weeks. It's been terribly hot here in central Florida. My work has been keeping me busy. We've gone on a few trips. And Daniel has been driving all over town. He has done a little work--mainly installing a shiny chrome air cleaner to jazz up the engine bay.
This week, Daniel is away at a jazz camp. The Wise One is in Asheville tending to our daughter, which leaves me home by myself. So, I've been doing a little tinkering.
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| The grille without trim |
A lot of what we have left is details, that are unfortunately easy to let slide once the car is on the road. One of the things that has bugged me is the lack of trim around our grille. The car didn't come with the trim, mainly because the car hardly came with much of a front end at all. I found a pair of trim pieces on eBay for a reasonable price a while back, and this week is the perfect week to clean them up and install them.
Since these pieces weren't on the car when we bought it, I didn't realize that there is a center piece that connects both sides, so it's back to eBay I go to find another good buy.
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| Left one clean, right one before cleaning |
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The pieces were in pretty bad shape when I got them, but they cleaned up fairly nicely. There's a few knicks and scratches on the anodized aluminum, and the paint strip in the middle was scratched up. I found a nice metallic enamel at Home Depot which is very close to the original matte gray. My only complaint is the can has one of those new-fangled triggers, which, I'm here to report, really stink. While I had the front grille apart, I took the extra time to clean
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| After cleaning and paint |
up and repaint the pony emblem as well. I think it all turned out
pretty good.
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| Everything back together |
