Cleaning 67 Coronet Wheel lip trim and Rocker moldings

[pwm72]

What is the best way to clean / polish these trim pieces? I have a buffing wheel and various compounds, but are these pieces anodized? What is the best way to polish them up before install?
Thanks all!

 

[AR67GTX]

Wheel lips are stainless. Plymouth 67 rocker panel molding are anodized aluminum. I assume Dodge are the same but not sure. The wheel lip moldings can be polished up with a metal polish and scratches worked out by sanding with several progressive grit levels of sandpaper before polishing. Other than cleaning tar and grime off the rocker moldings and a light polish with something like Mothers there isn’t much you can do with worn, pitted ones unless you strip off the anodizing by chemical stripping and the sand/polish them back. A trim shop can strip and re-anodize them but it’s probably cheaper to buy the reproductions if available for a Dodge.

 

[mr_belvedere]

Rocker moldings are stainless for that car.

 

[R413]

What model of 67 coronet? The trim can be aluminum or stainless depending.

 

[pwm72]

Well…it’s an R/T clone I recently purchased. All trim is off but there. Car was originally a Coronet 440. Not sure if trim is correct for R/T or 440. I wasn’t aware it was different.

 

[Dave6T4]

Wheel lip and lower sill moldings are specific to 1967 Coronet R/T. However they were also used on 1966 Coronet 500. 1966-'67 Chargers also used the same front wheelwell and lower sill moldings. These pieces are all stainless steel, and should buff up well. Classic Industries reproduces the lower sill molding. I ordered a set from them to replace the weathered ones on my R/T, and they fit well and look great.

 

[R413]

Look up pictures on the internet of a coronet 440 which has all anodized aluminum trim. Then look up Coronet RT which has all stainless trim

 

[Sam69sat]

67 Coronet R/T Stainless wheel lip moulding and stainless rocker moulding. If that's what yours looks like it's stainless.

 

[gtx6970]

1967 Coronet 500 lower trim is all anodized aluminum I'll guarentee

As for Coronet RT or 440 models Im not sure

 

[pwm72]

67 Coronet R/T Stainless wheel lip moulding and stainless rocker moulding. If that's what yours looks like it's stainless.

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It looks just like in your picture. Thank you!