Worth resurrecting?

[2011G6E]

What the hell is it with chrome on stuff like that old Zephyr (or Consul)???

In the train as we drive through the bush, I often see old cars. There's one spot in particular where there are a few old English cars and what looks like an FB/FC Holden sedan. They're burned, rusted, no glass or rubber left in them, no interiors apart from seat springs, and have been through a few bushfires...they obviously haven't moved for decades. However, the chrome trim on the sides (the flashes near the rear wheel arches on the side for instance) are perfect and gleaming chrome! The same with an old single spinner Ford I see crunched into a mess by the tracks in a drain. The grill is still gleaming. Just down the road from me is a farm yard with several old trucks including another single spinner and the chrome on these rusted-to-oblivion wrecks is, again, almost perfect.

"They don't make 'em like they used to"...

[aussie muscle]

those old cars would probably disintegrate if you tried to move them

the last car could be a Dodge Kingsway?

2011g6e, the chrome protects the metal, unless the water can get behind it somehow, they'll often stay good. sometimes direct sunlight can damage the chrome itself.

[jcxr]

Some of these moldings would be stainless steel.

[68xt]

Ebay them, then go buy something else.