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Be cautious on replating Cragars. I had 2 15x4's replated by Pauls and when placed with my 15x10 NOS rears the chrome did not match. The original chrome from the 60's and 70's was hexevelant and very few shops use this chrome as it has been nearly banned by the EPA

Pauls does very nice work the problem is his chrome has a brownish cast to it (Pauls admit to this) and makes the chrome look "dark". Every chrome shop has a slightly different color..Advanced Plating in TN appears bluish.

The original Cragar chrome is Hexavelant and is a pure white/clear..the problem is very few chrome shops use hexavelant due to EPA. I found a shop out in CA that redid the wheels by Pauls in correct hexavelant..it did not cost much because ll they did was strip the chrome and left the base

Of course of you have all 4 wheels done that is different...though you still might see the brownish cast in certain light.

A friend of mine restored an famous old chopper and use 2 diff co'-use Pauls for the Columbus Springer front end-chrome did not match..He ended up replating the front end (used Custom Chrome out of Medina Oh)


Again nothing wrong with Pauls he does great work but if you have chrome from other co's say on your engine compartment you are going to see the difference in chrome "color"