I'm trying to find a supplier of self adhesive chrome beading and failing miserably....
I need it to make a passable replacement for some chrome trim from my old Escort. Every Ford specialist I speak to mentions hen's teeth and rocking horse droppings. Every accessory shop remembers stick on chrome trim but no longer stocks it (shelves probably too full of window tinting film, fake carbon fibre and sticky backed white instrument dials........).
Has anyone got any suggestions for a, a company that can make up a bit of chrome beading for me or b, somewhere that does self adhesive plastic 'chrome' trim?
Piers
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try a company called 'the need for speed' its in nottingham, i dont know the phone number but ring directory enquiries. this contact is for stick-on chrome trim and not beading, these people sell all the things for cars that we remember from the 1970's and 1980's.
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I remember having a Mk II Fiesta with plastic "chrome" beading on the arches. Try a bodyshop, they may sell you some
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I'm sure I've seen this product in local independant accessory stores.
I'll look next time I'm in there.
David
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Piers,
Tell me exactly what trim part you want and which model it's from, I may just know a dealer who has it.
Every time I sit in the car raised on his ramp I see into his "loft", a few rare Ford trim bits from the 60/70s are hidden away.
David
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David,
I'm after the three pieces of chrome that run along the boot lid and then down the sides of the rear panel of a Mk 1 Escort (in my case a 1300E but I think they were fitted to others with the black painted rear panel). A chap I spoke to refered to the side pieces as 'hockeysticks', not sure if this was just his term but they do look like them.
Thanks
Piers
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Piers,
OK I'm going to the dealer later in the week and will ask to look through the loft. I know he has a mint grille for your car.
Can you e-mail me with your correct mail address and I'll get back to you by Saturday.
Regards,
David
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"Hockey stick" is also the term applied to the side bodywork sculpting of a Mk I Capri incidentally
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