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How to Quickly Restore the Shine on Your Brass Headlights

I recently purchased a pile of antique lights and after going through the pile I found a few I liked for my own projects I decided to play with restoring a couple to resell and pass on to other collectors. I had a couple key things I wanted to accomplish with this project. I wanted to bring the “bling” back to the lights, without taking away from their “age”. Most of these antique lights had brass headlight buckets and trim rings with either cast iron, steel or brass bases.

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Where did the art go?

There was a time when car and coach building was more of an artform. Auto manufacturers weren’t worried as much about shaping a car to get the best gas mileage, or to fit the most amount of gimmicky junk in it as they could. These were the days when cars […]