These things looked so good I had to post. They started out as your typical beat up scratched junk you find at a swap meet. Doug, from Best Of Show, asked if we could fix a set of these for that white 67 HEMI GTX they have and since we do all our SS trim for our own cars and he's a friend I said we would do them for him. This particular cap had 22 dings in it not to mention the scratches.

It's a very time consuming process, beating/banging, filing, sanding and polishing. After their polished, polish them again. Then all the finger flipping around making paint masks.

This post is not to promote this type of restoration work here at B/E & A Restoration Parts, it's to show what can be done with our old beat up parts left in the right hands. No, I didn't personally do the work, I'm bragging on one of my guys here.

That is beatifukl work.

I have done the same myself on a set of dog dish redlines and I can tell you its a LOT OF WORK to make em look like this one pictured.

So does this meen I can send my stuff to you to get polished now?

I have 8 of these caps and don't know the process to get them dent free so any tips on repairing dent would be great.

For the recessed black area I had a car graphics place laser cut some 3m vinyl. Although not correct they will last longer and they made a few extra so if something happens I have some to repair with.

Mike

in my case, lots of patience with a dolly and hammer and some tools that i specially made to tackle this job.

Then lots of sanding by hand to very fine grit and in the end polishing.

i then rubbed on some coearse polishing compund by hand because from the factory they didnt have a mirror finish.

the painting process is a pain, lots of masking and patience...and you have to do it right so that the edges are not too defined...since from the factory the edges had a bit of overspray they were not "hard" you can do that by rolling the edge on the masrking tape or by making some carboard "windows" to mask but leaving a soft edge.

thats the way i did it basically but it takes a lot of patience, work and man hours.

Craftsmanship!

I polished mine using mag polish on a wool car buffing pad. As mentioned, dings can be hammered out and then sanded smooth.

I tried painting mine, but couldn't make them look good so I gave up and made vinyl decals instead. I found that paint doesn't stick very well to polished metal + the paint would creep under the tape and make a mess. The vinyl is tedious to install, but worth it to me.

Man,, those are some nice pieces there..

Good Job Mike and Neil........

Troy

I have found the use of a black majic marker as guide coating works well for dents.
Hammer and dolly method and many differant sized tools.
You can block the dents and see what parts need more beat and bang since the guide coat is on it just like body work.