Well there are a couple possible ways....first, I asked the guy who did some recent body work for me if he could paint the oval, and he wouldn't do it because of the chrome on there, he said he could never get paint to stick on chrome. So he looked into it and said he could find a primered oval for $19. Some people have said that Ford only makes the oval in chrome, so it's interesting to see who's blowing smoke up my arse....so you may want to try that first. The other options are to sand all the chrome off down to the plastic, then paint over that; and someone somewhere has an acid they put the oval in to strip all the chrome off, but I don't know who that is. Good luck...hope I helped...