Nail Polish Remover Is A Hell Of A Thing…

You may have noticed that the current color of the Mustang is probably best described as “primer”.

Thankfully that dull gray color isn’t long for this world, but it’s also not the original color of the car. The primer was added later…

…By someone who did a really terrible job. Generally when you paint, you cover up the shiny parts with tape to avoid painting them. This guy apparently didn’t get the memo. There are a distressingly large number of parts that are supposed to be shiny and look like this:

But instead look like this:

Look close, there’s a shiny piece there to the right of the inside headlight. Can’t see it? No? Oh, that’s right – it’s not shiny and is hard to see because someone painted over it.

Why? Why? Why? Why?

We pulled the part to see what we could do. Here’s the before picture:

I wasn’t expecting to be able to do much, but after watching this video on YouTube, I learned that sometimes paint can be removed from metal by using nail polish remover. So, I gave it a try.

I’m pretty happy ecstatic with the results:

These parts are ~thirty-five dollars each. That little three dollor bottle of remover just saved me seventy bucks.

Nail polish remover, it’s a hell of a thing…