WTB front headlight bezels for 52 Windsor

[bebop138]

Need both front bezels---good enough for re-chroming---no dents or cracks---can anyone help?

[Rusty_OToole]

Andy Bernbaum has them new, a little pricey but cheaper than buying old ones and having them rechromed. By the way my 51 DeSoto has one stainless and one white metal. The stainless ones you can buff up like new. Only the white metal ones get corroded.

http://www.oldmoparts.com/k.htm

Look under chrome headlight doors.

[bebop138]

None avaliable at Andy`s. I would take a used one for the drivers side if it wasn`t cracked,bent,dented---something that could be replated. Thanks.

[Rusty_OToole]

Try to get the stainless steel. They never need rechroming. Buff them up and they are as good as new.

[bebop138]

Rusty, all the chrome on the car is pot metal except the door spears and bumpers. I was told that during the Korean war that the pot metal was used instead of the stainless. Odd enough the Ply`s and Dodge`s used stainless and the top of the line, the Chrysler got stuck with the pot metal---so I was told---and the quality of the pot metal was poor also. What the hey!!! So I`ll keep looking.

[Tim Wolfe]

Look for a man named Axelrod in Hemmings, he sells headlights and has a lot of them. I sent my reflectors to Vintage Lamp Repair and they aluminized them. They are just like a sealed beam now.

If you need me to find Axelrods address for you, I can. Good luck, Tim Wolfe

wolfe@wesnet.com

[Rusty_OToole]

There is a used pair on Ebay. Bid last night was $5. They are listed as 1947 or 48, are they the same?

[bebop138]

Rusty, no such luck---the 52 had the turn signal built into the bezel---then the fender spear fit into the bezel. I am sending 16 pieces of chrome to the platers over the winter, this includes the bumpers. I need one headlight bezel--drivers side and one rear tailight bezel--drivers side. Pieces good enough for replating, then it`s all done. Will have to re-finance the house to pay the bill---WHEW...........52er----by the way the article on the superchargers was very interesting!!!

[Rusty_OToole]

I sympathise, I used to own a 1952 New Yorker. Now that battleship had a lot of chrome and almost all of it was pot metal.

Managed to find a few NOS pieces but the chrome was so poor they needed to be replated after they were on the car a year.