Removed The Gold

[66and10]

I hate the look of gold or brass on a vehicle. I have removed the tailgate bowtie and replaced the bowtie on my grill with a chrome one. Now on to the hub caps.

 

Here is what I started with. I masked off the area around the bowtie with black electrician's tape and blue painter's tape.

I started the gold removal with a red scotch-brite pad.

After removing all of the gold, I polished the remaining aluminum with buffing compound to remove the deeper scratches from the scotch-brite.

Next, I further polished with fine cut polishing comound.

Next, a coat of wax to shine it up nice.

Done. And it looks much better.

[mikepike1125]

I agree. Looks great

[Stevens03]

Looks good.. I like it

[dirtfan21]

That looks amazing.

[Superperv23]

Looks good, lets see a pic on the truck

[66and10]

Thanks for the comments, guys.

 

Pics, as requested:

 

On the truck, before.

 

And after.

 

From a little farther away.

[Superperv23]

Honestly that looks amazing on the wheel

[BigBlueLB756]

Goes great with the truck color, too.

[Wolfmansbrudda]

Done. And it looks much better.

 

I never would have noticed this until seeing this cap separated from the wheel, it looks strangely like the old '67-'75 GM dog dish caps like I have on my K5.

 

[66and10]

Those would look a lot better if you removed the gold.

 

Seriously, though, the resemblance between the two is amazing. I would have to guess that it was intentional on the part of some designer at Chevy, going for a little bit of retro styling. Too bad most people will never notice it. Thanks for posting the pic.

 

 

[DSChamber]

Someone needs to send this to GM and tell them to stop putting gawdy gold accents on otherwise beautiful trucks .... totally agree, the silver bowtie looks much better!!

[mc7719]

wow... very nicely done.....

 

amazing what difference a little colour (or lack thereof) can make!

[Wingnut]

That's a job well done there. I've always disliked the gold stuff on an otherwise silver/chrome accented vehicle. I did the same thing on my TBSS. The rear bowtie had a gold plastic insert and the wheels were the same as yours were.

[Wolfmansbrudda]

I dunno...I like the gold accents. Not that the hubcaps at the top of this thread look bad, they do look nice. If the gold were something new that GM all-of-a-sudden started using, maybe I might not like it so much, but seeing little connections like that between my old Blazer and my new Silverado is kind of cool. Just my 2 cents.

[L76PWRD]

That looks pretty good, thinking of doing it to my V-Max.