I'm sure this topic has been discussed before but I'll ask one more time.
Seems like no matter what you do to the molding on my '65 it looks like @#$% in no time at all. Can this molding be chromed or possibly powder coated the same color as the truck or maybe a silver?

 

yes you can have it powder coated just go to your nearest powder coater and thay will do it

 

The moldings are anodized, and the anodized coating is what goes bad. You can strip them with products they make for it, or I've heard oven cleaner will also work. Then they can be polished to a high shine, but it's a lot of time consuming work.
As much as I hated to, I decided to buy a new set. The quality of the raw material on the repro's is superior, and I expect these to last much longer. Decided my time was worth more than what these wound up costing me. If you watch Ebay long enough, you may be able to put a set together like I did for less than the catalog price.

 

EPOS,

FWIW to you,

Ya' can have your mouldings, or any Aluminum brite work, re-anodized by a qualified Plater doing annodization. There used to be a guy in Houma, LA, his company was "Color Brite", if I recollect right. I understand they did plating, annodization and they may have even been one of the companies known for doing "vacuum plating" too. It's been a while. Vacuum Plating, of course is chrome on plastic & vinyl.

A few years ago I worked at a Classic & Antique Auto Salvage Business. We sold & I shipped bunches of mouldings during period I was there. Anyway he did all kinds of mouldings & trim items. He straightened & re-polished Stainless Steel and Re-Painted Centers of "Spear mouldings", so popular on quarter panel of 60s cars. Other qualified, quality, platers advertise in a trade publication called Hemmings Motor News, so I know specialty moulding people are out there & doing business.

I learned as time passes, Items become more scarce & more difficult to find. Several companies began developing technology & techniques to actually do full blown quality restoration or preservation on many hard to come by items. I'm impressed because too many Salvage, [or Junk Yards?] disregard trim and mouldings as just being worthless clutter & a nuisance. Although ther are not.

We had a customer from Quebec Canada. He came thru every summer and bought up any/ all mouldings we had for more most popular vintage, classic, antique and other special interest cars & trucks. He took anything so long as it wasn't torn, split, or bent back over itself ripping the sides & destroying it. Dented, flattened, bent, crushed, sand pitted or dulled is what he looked for.

He towed his medium size, single axle, cargo trailer. We'd sell him hundreds of various mouldings. He'd load them up. Sometimes his trailer was nearly full. Come next summer he'd come for more. There is a hidden world of moulding people which I suspect it's still growing. Some dealers feature any/all kinds of mouldings from NOS, Re-Pops & restored thru clean used & salvagable.

I hope somebody finds all this helpful. . . .
FBp