All--
For those of you that voiced a preference for keeping the honeycombs (yes, you were in the majority), I decided you were entitled to a final epilogue...
After much effort, I found a shop here in Dallas willing to turn down the pressure on their bead-blasting equipment to 15 PSI. They then carefully removed the non-original paint applied by the previous owner and took the honeycombs down to the original lacquer (I did not want them to take all the paint off for fear of damaging the pebble grain in the polycast material).
With their help, I then found a company still willing and able to sell lacquer paint. Using the correct paint code and one of the centers underneath the center cap (which had never been repainted) as a guide, we matched the color. I then found another shop willing to paint the wheels and yet another shop willing to carefully mount a new set of BFG radials.
I just finished using a series of Meguiar's products to clay the car, remove swirl marks, polish, and then apply two coats of wax in preparation for the Bandit Run. I just ran to a nearby business in the community to snap a shot. It isn't the best photograph in the world, but here's the end result:
Yes, the headlight bezels and grills are a little darker, I ran out of time before I could get them painted to perfectly match--but I do agree with everyone, overall it looks 100% better.
Tinman5
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