Plastic restoration

Has anyone figured out how to restore the plastic-chrome-paint stuff around the gauges, arm rests, grilles, etc. of the 70s cars? It's always used on plastic, and it looks like chrome plating, but wears off like crazy.

I've had reasonable luck with chrome spray paint topped by a clear coat, but was wondering what else people are doing.

I have a blue interior and some of the plastic has faded to a horrendous olive drab. The plastic is in great shape, just its faded horribly. I'm thinking some kind of spray-on plastic dye would fix this right up, but has anyone found the proper color from a company making plastic dye?

SEM products are dedicated to restoration of automotive (and other) applications and have a full line of products including cleaning and priming materials. They are referred to as a plastic dye but are in reality a Lacquer based material that can be purchased in OEM interior colors as identified on Paint charts for your cars. They can be purchased in bulk quantities or packaged in rattle cans. They also make splatter paint which if used some what correctly try to emulate the texture used to mimic leather and other products a lot of plastic interior parts were cast in. SEM products can be purchased at Automotive Paint stores and mixed there too. 

Chrometech will replate your bezel but it is not cheap.  About $200 plus shipping for a Hornet bezel.  I had one done about six months ago and another forum member here with a show car caliber Gremlin had one done by the same vendor.  Joe

amxdreamer wrote: CV Platers were about 15 minutes from my house and did all the plastic plating for my car. Unfortunately they no longer are in business :(

You should have paid them.

  I have a set of 70' Javelin/AMX dash bezels and dome light lenses going to chrome tech this week, price quoted is $50 each for the speedo/tach bezels, $40 for the clock bezel and $50 for each dome light lens for a total of $240 not including shipping. Tony