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Hi This one is for everyone with grey-face instruments. Hands up all of you with rusted or otherwise tatty looking instrument bezels. I'm talking about the sliver-grey trim ring in front of the instrument glass (yes, I know its acually plastic) on the clock, speedo and fuel gauge. There is light ahead!!!! Go to a store that sells paint for finishing model aircraft and such stuff. Ask for Tamiya (sp?) XF-16 Flat Aluminium. It is an acrylic paint that when mixed well and applied properly matches the original colour almost perfectly. One has to look real hard to see that its been painted over. All you have to do is to remove the instument, take the bezel off. flatten it down with some 400 and then 1 000 grit water paper, let it dry thoroughly and give it two coats of paint. The paint can be applied with a brush and after two coats almost no brush marks will be visible. Air-brushing will, of course, give the best results - if you have access to such equipment. I have just done mine like this and the results are quite stunning!!! Take care Regards Adriaan Loedolff adriaan@norton.ctech.ac.za '69 Variant Automatic (200 000 miles + and still cruisin' after all of these years!)