Imp558 Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 Smacked the Regal hard last winter and finally getting paint this week (PPG B/C GM Black). The car was in a hailstorm long before I bought it so we had many little dents everywhere along with the damage from the accident and the little dents from 17 years of life. All in all it looks beautiful so far but I can't seem to find replacement trim pieces for around the wheel wells and everything I find up here has dents from people kicking ice from the wheelwells. Anybody know where I can buy them or if there's a descent aftermarket 1" molding I can use? New chrome to insert in the bumpers comes from Rockauto.com if anybody's interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galaxie500XL Posted September 5, 2013 Report Share Posted September 5, 2013 Any idea what years of Regal used the same trim? There are usually a few of them in junkyards around here, and we don't usually have ice that needs kicking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l67ss Posted September 15, 2013 Report Share Posted September 15, 2013 Jcwhitney [ATTACH=CONFIG]13806[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]13807[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]13808[/ATTACH]Smacked the Regal hard last winter and finally getting paint this week (PPG B/C GM Black). The car was in a hailstorm long before I bought it so we had many little dents everywhere along with the damage from the accident and the little dents from 17 years of life. All in all it looks beautiful so far but I can't seem to find replacement trim pieces for around the wheel wells and everything I find up here has dents from people kicking ice from the wheelwells. Anybody know where I can buy them or if there's a descent aftermarket 1" molding I can use? New chrome to insert in the bumpers comes from Rockauto.com if anybody's interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imp558 Posted September 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 Thanks for the offer Galaxie500XL, I 'm going to try the Pull-a-Parts in Cleveland in a couple of weeks and see how I make out first. JCW only offers aftermarket universal trim which could be my salvation but I'm trying to avoid loading more chrome onto it. What I'm really hoping to find is a repro or NOS source. These things are so easy to damage even the ones I've pulled so far have little dents in them just from pulling them off. I'm almost assembled now but the bumpers need to come back off so he can paint the bumpers, sidemolding and rocker covers next weekend. It rolled through a PA. state inspection on it's first try, something I've never had a car do before! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imp558 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Scored 3 and have a usable 4th! Also the earlier Regal had a chrome/black trim I kind of like better if only the black wasn't peeling from every one I found. I did make a rash decision and had to choose between a good looking 1996 Grille or a 1993 Grille. The 93 was a little meaner and this car isn't much like GM intended it so it won. Just contemplating how aweful it would look if I epoxy a 96 Tri-Shield into the center like a '96? Neither of these pics are my car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l67ss Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I like the top one better jus my $0.02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imp558 Posted October 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 I do too for the most part, the Regal is my 4th Buick and if I ever desired a tatoo it would certainly be a Tri-Shield on my chest, well, or ohms law on my forearm where I can read it. But anyway the vertical lines are more hardcore Buick for me, but the second one looks more aggressive on this particular car now that it's all black and I took that Buick script off and will shoot the grille black as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l67ss Posted October 14, 2013 Report Share Posted October 14, 2013 Ah the vader look I do too for the most part, the Regal is my 4th Buick and if I ever desired a tatoo it would certainly be a Tri-Shield on my chest, well, or ohms law on my forearm where I can read it. But anyway the vertical lines are more hardcore Buick for me, but the second one looks more aggressive on this particular car now that it's all black and I took that Buick script off and will shoot the grille black as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imp558 Posted October 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Yeah, I think this is going to look pretty badass once it's all black, notched the 96 symbol and stuck it on there to see what I thought of it and it looked pretty natural to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guz Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 That actually looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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