Cadillac Bling - Some Sunday Fun

[Jason Edge]

I am changing out my rear bumper center with a new chrome piece and had some camera fun with the license guard. I think cost wise, having this rechromed was the best bang for my buck so far!

[3n49omug8n28i]

Cool pictures. Now you just need to add black background with some of those bright reflections off of the chrome. It would make cool wall art (the picture of course) maybe wire up the lights and hide the wires.

[Jason Edge]

The background later today will hopefully the be the rest of my rear bumper assembly. I've been slowly putting it all back together the past few days and hope to remedy a slightly warped large rear center that has been gnawing at me for 10+ years. The rechromed center I had appears to be 3/4" pushed inward, compared to the new one I am putting on. I had always noticed that it was way too close (about 1/8" to 1/4") from the back trunk wall than what I have observed on almost all other 64 Cadillacs. The odd thing is there is absolutely not sign of stress, or otherwise, of how the rear bumper I had, was a bit flattened and pushed inward toward the car. Anyway, I will see the new "fitment" in the next few days when the bumper goes back on.  Today the license guard and filler pans go on to complete the assembly.

[3n49omug8n28i]

I totally understand how you feel about that bumper not being right. My front bumper is not perfectly aligned and it drives me nuts at times. I suspect it's from years of it being tapped and jarred here and there that has got it out of alignment. In fact I have a new passenger side nose piece and headlight bucket to install because of this. Ive also noticed a lot of car like ours with the same problem.

[Chris Codd]

Where did you get this re-chromed? Tri-City Plating said they wouldn't plate my license housing because they thought it might be made with pot metal. 

[Jason Edge]

Atlantic Coast Plating did my license guard outer bezels and inner escutcheons. The lower center was one I bought outright from Tri-City.

[Chris Codd]

I'll have to give them a call. That looks amazing! 

[2o93f8rdftyzj]

Nice job they did on that. Are you going to paint the plate bolts yellow to match the plate? I di on ours here and it look really clean.

[Jason Edge]

No, probably not. I might use a nice yellow/gold cad screw if I can find the correct large head screw.  Right now I've got bigger fish to fry.  For about 3 hours today I installed the license guard, filler pans and readjusted everything. I probably spent about 1.5 hrs trying to find a better RH filler plate end cover. I had brought in an NOS LH end cover way back so it looks like new. I probably pulled 3 of these, cleaned and polished and ended up using the one I already had on there! LOL. Anyway, after about 3 hrs I knew it was time to walk away and enjoy today's accomplishment. Off the car the bumper assembly looks right ... nice crisp lines, between everything but the actual mounting on the car may bring unexpected opportunities.  I did leave the 2 inner bumper end to frame brackets looks to allow for adjustment as I mount the outer brackets. Anyway, I do have some more "bling pictures" of the completed assembly and may post some later.  

[Jason Edge]

Here's some pictures from today with the rear bumper assembled.

[2o93f8rdftyzj]

That looks really good, the lines and contour changes in it look so sharp. Looking at that shiny chrome, I think i'm starting to get a little frisky..... LOL

[3n49omug8n28i]

That's it! I'm going to start bringing in parts cars so I can have the pick of the litter

[Jason Edge]

Ha...then you take it to the next level and start sending the best you can find out the be rechromed... and your wallet gets thinner, and thinner and thinner!