Remember the 1930's Engineering shop Dennis and I visited in Philo, Illinois ??
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One of the treasures I pulled out of there along with a load of other stuff that was probably destined for scrap was this early Chevy valve cover.
People do ask why carry that sort of rubbish halfway around the world??
Well, I had a plan to mount a load of things on a board that were from various road trips to America, Africa and Europe and hang it against the wall in the lounge. My house My rules.
Anyway I did clean a lot of them but thought many could do with a run through the full programme of my "kitchen mounted parts washer"
Resulting in this
Some bits like this original 57 Chevy hood ornament was pitted and covered in silver paint and filler even after the dish washer. So I scraped it clean followed by a Scotch pad.
The valve cover got some fine paper and Scotch pads too.
Etch primer
It was 5'C in the garage so the oil heater worked a treat.
Alloy wheel Silver for the bird and very Red for the valve cover.
First coat.
Two coats each and contrast on the mounting boards
Then work got in the way before I could complete it all.
More in a bit.