71 outer grille - I quit

[chewiebarker]

I sent the last two weekends trying to clean/restore/polish my outer grille. Last weekend I tried cleaners and fine polishes to no avail. Stains and rust did not even budge, never mind trying to find a shine. Today I tried the drain cleaner trick that is posted everywhere I here, and now the grille really looks like crap. It is all blotchy and milky and I even tried to wet sand a small patch and that just made it looked like brushed metal.

So, after all these wasted hours, I give up. I am just going to have it re-anodized. I don't have the time or patience or know how to bother doing anything else.

My questions for all of you, then, are:

1. What are all of the parts on a 71 suburban that are supposed to be anodized aluminum? If I am going to do the grille, I might as well get everything done all at once. I think the headlight bezels are supposed to be. Are the bumpers? Or at those chrome? Any interior?

2. Are 67 GMC grilles also anodized? I have two of them listed for sale here but have had no interest, they look like crap, and I will sell them, but I might as well anodize them too if they are supposed to be.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Marc