1967 gtx belvedere dash bezel painting

[richard]

Guys and Gals, i am trying to repainting my dash bezel on a 1967 gtx. It has been rechromed and now I need to repaint the black. My problem is "how to not paint the raised letters, or get the paint off without removing the chrome". I have heard of using liquid masking film, but am concerned about the chrome peeling off when you remove the mask. I have searched the Internet and have not found anything on the subject.

 

[AR67GTX]

I have heard of applying vaseline with a Qtip to the letters, spraying the paint and then gently wiping the vaseline and paint stuck to it off the letters. Haven't actually used this myself.

 

[Bolt-Action]

I have heard of applying vaseline with a Qtip to the letters, spraying the paint and then gently wiping the vaseline and paint stuck to it off the letters. Haven't actually used this myself.

This works extremely well, I've used it many times, you can even use a regular type of grease BUT don't get it on what you want to paint because the paint will not stick, don't "heap" the grease on though, it just take a light coat.
Also, let your paint lightly tack up, but don't let it dry to much or you can "wrinkle" the paint if you "bump" the paint cleaning off the grease, if you let it dry all the way would *probably work, but I had a few cases where the dry paint had little "rips" in it.
I just let it tack up and wipe off the grease being careful and patience is the key.

 

[67GTX440]

I just bought a new glove box door and scratched the black on it somehow. Let me know what color and type paint you are using for the black and how well it matches the original.

Thanks!

Don

 

[richard]

Don, both of my pieces are newly rechromed, I don't have anything with the original black on it. I spoke with Glenn at gcartrim.com and he said he uses SEM Landau Black to redo the dash and glove box bezels on these cars. I bought a can at Oreillys 15 bucks. If you give me your address I can paint something small and send it to you before you pay that much and find it ain't right. Also you might try calling the place you got your bezels from and see if they can tell you the paint color brand.

 

[67GTX440]

Don, both of my pieces are newly rechromed, I don't have anything with the original black on it. I spoke with Glenn at gcartrim.com and he said he uses SEM Landau Black to redo the dash and glove box bezels on these cars. I bought a can at Oreillys 15 bucks. If you give me your address I can paint something small and send it to you before you pay that much and find it ain't right. Also you might try calling the place you got your bezels from and see if they can tell you the paint color brand.

Richard-

Thanks for the advice and offer to paint something for me. I will just get a can and try it. I quit counting the money I have in this car long ago, so what is another $15? LOL I also need to paint the console, backs of the bucket seats etc, so can try it there also. I may try the prep adhesion spray they sell also on the console and seat backs as these seem more likely to have a potential for peeling after painting. The first reproduction I bought had an issue with black over the chrome on the lettering and corners of the cluster bezel. I sent it back and got another one that was better. I think they order these things from China and the end customer is the quality control. The seller never really unpacks and looks at the quality of anything they send unless you have a complaint and return something for replacement. I bought this from a Mopar restoration part place that ships out of NY, but requires you send returns to Canada. This was expensive and slow, and they made me pay all the return postage and insurance. I won't be buying parts from a supplier outside of the US again.

Lesson learned.

Thanks again and let us know how the vasoline method turns out.

Don

 

[richard]

Don,i tried the black landau and man did it scratch easy. I went back to oreillys and spoke with the paint guy there. He has been in the paint business a long time. We found that SEM makes a self etching black primer. I removed the paint from the heater control and repainted it. Looks close. I painted the dash bezel on the top back side and let it dry good. Can barely scratch it off. I wound up scraping all the paint off the bezel and putting just the primer on. Looks great. The glove box got a scratch somehow so I taped it off and primed right over the black landau. It all looks great, a little more satin look but it will be hard to scratch. Only issue I ran into was I had epoxyed my lens back in so I could not remove it to paint. Wound up the chemicals in the paint fogged the lens in a few places, but a little rubbing with plastic polish does get it out.