There are few things that can impact the look of your truck like chrome plating. That touch of sparkling eye candy add appeal to any hauler be it restored, customized or hot rodded. But just like the ...

Chrome plating is hardly a matter of dipping a bumper into a tank filled with chemicals. It is a long, involved process that often starts with polishing and buffing, cleaning and acid dipping.

Chromium is a hard and silvery metal that has historically been used as a decorative and protective element for automotive wheels and trim. Given that Chromium is the hardest metal on the periodic ...

No matter what the styling may be, bare bones to high tech, two things that set one street rod apart from another are detailing and workmanship. Few things add to the detailing of a car like chrome, ...

California air regulators voted Thursday to ban the use of a highly toxic metal for restoring classic car parts, protecting aviation components and producing a lustrous metallic finish for a variety ...

California is about turn the state's restoration, customization, and other automotive industries on its head. The state is looking to reduce harmful emissions and cancer-causing chemicals. The L.A.

Southern California has the nation’s highest concentration of chrome platers, the metal shops that dip car bumpers, plumbing fixtures, airplane parts and other products in large industrial tanks to ...

Since 1986, California has classified hexavalent chrome as a toxic air contaminant to which there is no safe level of exposure. Despite that, it remains the ingredient used in chrome plating, but ...