699
BRIT-TEK
New
Hampshire
+1 (603) 437-1584
According to Bruce S. Murray, this is a US distributor of Waxoyl, a popular rustproofing substance. “You need a
spraying kit; or you can use your wife’s garden sprayer.”
CAR CARE SPECIALTIES
P.O. Box 535
Saddle Brook NJ 07663
Phone: +1 (201) 796-8300
Fax:
+1 (201) 791-9743
E-Mail:
carcaresp@aol.com
Owner: Larry Reynolds
28 page catalog. According to Gene Halaburt, “They sell high quality car care products from 3M, Black Again, Harly
Products, Lexol, Masury, Meguiar’s, Oil Flo, One Grand, P21S, Porsche Car Care, Ritz, Sonax, Surflex, Tony Nancy,
Wurth and Zymol. The first 16 pages give a detailed description of products and prices, and the remaining pages offer
excellent advice on 1) washing cars 2) Tire/Rubber and Vinyl Treatment, 3) Care & Feeding of Leather/Vinyl, 4) Paint
Chip Repair, 5) Paint Cleaning, 6) Protecting Finish, 7) Care & Feeding of Wheels, 8) Repairing Damaged Wheels, 9)
Engine Cleaning, 10) Care & Feeding of Convertible & Soft Tops. The advice Larry gives is very “hands on” and
practical - showing pluses and minuses of products and techniques.”
COTECH - Eric H. Slabaugh
1805 Little Orchard Street #100
San Jose, CA 95125
+1 (408) 977-0400
or
+1 (408) 977-0820
“Coating Technology for the Auto Restorer”. According to Andrew E. Kalman, this outfit can refinish chromed plastic
parts: “Their process is not a chroming process. Rather, they vacuum-deposit aluminum on the stripped part and then
spray a clear polyurethane over it.
“I inspected several parts (hubcap, grille, taillight cluster) and was suitably impressed. The finish on these parts was
very nice - perhaps not as “hard” looking as chrome, but very reflective, with a bit of depth, and extremely uniform in
their color. Basically, it looks like polished aluminum with a protective clearcoat on it. They generally do plastics and
pot metals, in aluminum, gold, copper or titanium nitride.
“XJ-S headlamp buckets are $75 each, grilles $120. This seems to compare favorably with new parts. 50% down at
time of order. He quoted me 3-4 weeks. It’s cheaper if you deliver the parts pre-stripped (they get charged $45 to strip
the grille, for instance).”
BARRY HANKINSON, LTD.
15 Copse Cross St.
Ross-On-Wye, Herefordshire HR9 5PD (UK)
+44 1989 565789
FAX:
+44 1989 567983
Trim kits.
INDUSTRIAL PLATING COMPANY
Frank Aguilar, President
San Carlos, California
+1 (415) 593-1046
A small company that does mainly industrial plating for the surrounding Silicon Valley high-tech firms. They do all
plating to military specs. Supposedly base their prices on the actual effort involved rather than the cost of new Jaguar