More Parts...

While I'm waiting on fasteners to get back from the plater I went through all the rest of the parts to determine what still needs to be plated in other finishes.  I've had door latches plated before but in this case these originals look really good after cleanup, so I'm going to reinstall them as is.  Sometimes you look at stuff on a car and you can just tell it's over-restored.  Again, my goal here is tor restore this car as it was from the factory, and these things would not have had perfect plating.  Plus, most of the experts on this stuff agree that the rivets where zinc plated while the latch covers were gold cad.

So the brake drums, wheel cylinders, and shoes are being rebuild and sleeved, but before sending them off, I removed the original small bleeders from the original wheel cylinders.  You can see that they were gold zinc, particularly in the one 3rd from the left.

After cleanup and plating these things look great!  These came out with a nice variation in the different refractive coloring from the zinc dichromate.

So I took a break from the suspension and brake parts, to finish restoring the heater box.  This was a combination of leaving original finishes and stamps and restoring plated and painted finishes.  Here's what the pieces look like after  restoration.  Paint on the fan housing is original.

Still has the original date stamped heater core.  It's been cleaned up and is ready to be reinstalled.

So I was able to same the original paint and stamping on the heater motor...so cool!

The heater fan is such a PITA to restore, but I think this turned out great and very true to the original finish.

 These two brackets are right nest to each other but the black on on the left was just cleaned up and left (its got a black oxide finish, not painted) and the one on the right is natural steel with a rust preventative.  Note how the rivets are lighter, super happy with the way all of these parts came out.