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Sunny Delight - now Shelly 2.0

I’m probably about 2 weeks away from driving back (about 5 hrs one way) to pick up the body parts at paint. While I’m there we’re going to apply the decals as well. Therefore it’s time to get the rocker moldings ready. IYKYK


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I’ve never had black molding in the past. I’ve always polished up the silver ones and feel they look best when you run chrome wheels / have other chrome bits. With the complete change in direction with the color now I’m torn. I will still have chrome center caps on the white wheels but that’s it. I wonder if I should go black with these guards??

Current plan is to get them ready for decal work since I’ll install them on the tub to help with decal alignment. I’ll just polish them decently for now and take a look when installed. Can easily take them back off to finish the polish or to turn them black
 
I like the brushed aluminum look, which I'm pretty sure is just faded adonization.
 
The rails were all anodized black from the factory. They only became brushed aluminum due to years and years of sun exposure.

If you are going for original, black it is. If you are going for what looks good, all bets off, run what ya brung.
 
Interesting. I spent some time reading on various CJ specific forums and seemed to think that the black anodized started in 83 with silver anodized prior

These, along with the last set of ‘81 rockers I had, didn’t have a spec of black on them anywhere. However I have had some from later years that while the sides looked silver you could definitely see the black on the bottom side.

Regardless I’ll go with what looks best to me. Right now I’m leaning towards silver
 
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