<VV> Aluminum finish

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On a late you have anodized aluminium for the Headlight Bezels, the wheel well trim, the rocker panel trim and the the rear cove trim. Stainless is only used for the windshield and backlight trim and the drip rails (on Monza/Corsa) And the gas filler door trim, if so equipped..
 Some say you can use Easy Off oven cleaner to remove the anodizing and then you are in for a lot of polishing to restore some semblence of a shine, then you need to clear coat the trim or it will turn nasty looking in a hurry.

                             Ed Lindsay
West Florida Corvair Club
'66 A/C Corsa
'66 283 Crown
'68 UltraVan x 2


----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Pitchford <jay.pitchford at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: <VV> Aluminum finish

Jerry,

Most of the trim you're referring to is stainless steel. Richard Widman
(CORSA member who lives in Bolivia) has written an excellent article on how
to restore stainless steel trim on Corvairs. He learned how to do this out
of necessity, restoring a 1960 model he found in Bolivia, where parts are
rare and shipping is expensive.

I'll send via separate email a pdf of his article.

Regards,

Jay Pitchford


On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:51 AM, jomo at mcsi.net <jomo at mcsi.net> wrote:

> anyone out there knopw how to take oxidation off of the trim on 65 monza.
> Car being painted and wanted to shie up the trim and the oxidation will not
> come off of it
> with "never dull", Mothers metal polish nor turtle wax aluminum
> cleaner/polish. Thanks, Jerry Fleming at jomo at mcsi.net