Final Visit to the Chrome Shop! It got a little sketchy 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@nonsequitur807]

Happy youre happy. Right on✊🏾

[@garygresge4165]

I have enjoyed your project performance. Several years ago, I did something similar only to build a vintage race car from a 68. I have no idea what you are going to use your car for. If you do decide to take the car on the track, I would do something slightly different. I would lose the Wilwood front hubs and go back to the steel ones. The aluminum will expand a lot from the heat. So much so that grease seals will loosen as well as bearings. My first outing with aluminum hubs ( not Wilwood ) the dust caps fell off after a couple laps because of expansion. The grease seals also came off.

[@mayermotorsports]

Gary, I really appreciate you watching man. This is definitely a serious project. Trying to have some fun with it. Legitimate dual purpose autocross with some track time. Thank you so much for sharing that. There’s so much going on with these cars there’s just no way to really Understand and remember everything specially, since I don’t live in breathe road racing. Thanks again man.

[@gregm1831]

I'm working on a 68 corvette convertible. My chrome is at Alberta Plating in Calgary. I pick it up in about a month. They do excellent work (show car quality) and this isn't my first show car. That said, the only obvious difference is: places where you welded could be filled (brazed and sanded) either before taking them to the chrome shop or the chrome shop could have done it for you. My scope is almost identical to yours. My cost will be $1950 US ($2600 CDN).

[@mayermotorsports]

Sounds like you’ll have better results. I really tried to keep the cost down. It’s probably would have been another 1k to get it show finished. Enjoy. Getting your chrome back is really exciting or at least it was for me.