Another set of Avanti valve covers

[Jerry Forrester]

One pair of Avanti valve covers fresh out of the plating tanks. $220 straight sale or $190 exchange. Plus shipping. Can deliver to the IM in SB in late July.

[Jerry Forrester]

One pair of Avanti valve covers fresh out of the plating tanks. $220 straight sale or $190 exchange. Plus shipping. Can deliver to the IM in SB in late July.

Bump.
I must have the market flooded with my rechromed Avanti valve covers. No one seems to one want or need these. :-(

[starliner62]

Bring em to the IM Jerry. I'll buy them. Might as well make my hot rod engine pretty.

[jnormanh]

Jerry F: I just looked at the die cast hood ornament you did for Steinkamp. I know how difficult it is to replate that stuff and still keep all the lines straight and edges sharp. Whoever the polisher was, he deserves a pat on the back.

[Jerry Forrester]

Sold!
I'll have another pair next week.

[StudeMichael]

Jerry, how much to do a pair of R3 valve covers and four six cylinder valve cover caps?

[Jerry Forrester]

Jerry F: I just looked at the die cast hood ornament you did for Steinkamp. I know how difficult it is to replate that stuff and still keep all the lines straight and edges sharp. Whoever the polisher was, he deserves a pat on the back.

Dick's three piece mascot was in good shape to start with. What most people don't realize is, if you start off with a nice piece you can end up with a nice shiny piece. If you start of with a piece of crap, you,ll end up with a shiny piece of crap. That is unless you want to send a piece of crap to a potmetal restoration shop like Paul's Plating in Penn. and pay the BIG BUCKS. (usually about four times what I charge)
Most Studebaker people are not looking for Concours quality but are satisfied with driver quality and THAT is what I offer. I will admit that almost every piece I replate has a small flaw in it somewhere but it probably wont show up once the piece is on the car and a Studebaker Show judge will never see it and deduct points for.

[jnormanh]

Dick's three piece mascot was in good shape to start with. What most people don't realize is, if you start off with a nice piece you can end up with a nice shiny piece. If you start of with a piece of crap, you,ll end up with a shiny piece of crap. That is unless you want to send a piece of crap to a potmetal restoration shop like Paul's Plating in Penn. and pay the BIG BUCKS. (usually about four times what I charge)
Most Studebaker people are not looking for Concours quality but are satisfied with driver quality and THAT is what I offer. I will admit that almost every piece I replate has a small flaw in it somewhere but it probably wont show up once the piece is on the car and a Studebaker Show judge will never see it and deduct points for.

I hear you. I spent 40 years in the plating business, 12 of them doing job shop work, many, many old car parts. In fact I still have the scars from a Model A radiator shell I got hung up in a buffing wheel, and I once spent an entire day copper plating and then solder filling the hundreds of pits in a pair of '40 Ford headlight bezels. That was a long time ago, and as I remember the customer though he'd been ripped off at $40. People sometimes think all platers are banditos. You and I know better. ;-)


These days I restore old British cars. Fortunately nearly all the parts for those cars are available as good quality repros. New MGB bumpers @ $100? I wouldn't replate one on a bet.