Back light - rechroming

sportfury1959
Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:05:26 +0000

Curt,

It’s about 10 years now that I have my “reproduction” taillights. I went to
an local foundry here in Portugal and showed him the original taillights
with all the pitting. He took the 6 pieces and made a mold for every single
piece with a special quartz-sand for molds. Then the metal was poured into
the cast. After cooling the mold was destroyed to remove the parts. Two
weeks later he gave me the reproductions (not yet chromed) to see if they
fit perfectly on the car. After that the surface was cleaned, polished and
chromed. I don’t recall exactly the price I paid for the taillights, because
I made also some other parts, as for example the half-round piece over the
steering column, right between the “horns” of the cluster. But to make a
good guess it must have been between 1.200 $ and 1.500 $.

Regards