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Originally posted by ATL-SVT:

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The "dull" look, was just dirt, if you look close the whole car was dirty in that pic.

Origionally I was going to go ALL t-red, meaning the lower black valence was going to be painted t-red along with the rear chrome strip. At the last minute I decided against it and went the way it is in the picture.

When I took it off, I just used these tools I have that look like dentists plaque pics, different angled pointy pieces of metal. Pried them up underneath the strip and popped it off. It was A LOT less tedious than I thought it was going to be. I was so scared to break it, but it's really simple. It's glued on to the reflector at about 7 different places. By places I mean dots. There are about 7 dots of glue holding it on. Just find them and pop em off almost like removing your door panel. Then I sanded the hell out of the whole strip and bondo'd the spot. I let it dry real well and passed it off to my uncle to be painted. He said he used some sort of self adhesive primer, but I can't remember which kind.


As far as seeing a strip painted body color, I'm pretty sure Pascal had his chrome strip molded and painted Silver to match the body color. I'm sure a search would turn up a few more posts with those pics in it. I don't have the time or I would do it for ya. Hope this answered questions and helped anybody who needed it.

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