Hmm, if you aren't sure you would like it, I would just wipe the shell with lacquer thinner and rattle can it. Then, if you like the effect, do it right. Strip the chrome electrochemically (battery and battery acid solution.....) and prime with a zinc rich epoxy primer and paint with two part epoxy black. Or have it powdercoated.
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Triumph old, Triumph new, any Triumph will do.
I sanded mine with fine grit sandpaper then blasted it with rattle can primer, then rattle can glossy black.
Here she be:
I also lowered my headlight by cutting 1.5'' off the bottom of the headlight brackets and welding it on the top, and lowered the gauges using a plate I made. Lots of work.
I painted my headlight bucket with Dupli-Color Low Gloss Black DE 1634, and the headlight bezel with Dupli-Color Aluminum DE 1615. To prepare the surface, I used a power sander with 100 grit paper to scratch up the bucket and bezel. That sounds coarse, but even with the power sander, it took a lot of time to rough up the surface. The chrome is super tough and was still smooth to the touch when I got done, but you could see the scratches, at least. The only place where I even wore through to the copper plated layer was at the sharper front edge of the bezel. I wiped the pieces down with paint thinner before painting. A day later, the paint withstood my 'finger nail gouge' test, which is as far as I wanted to go with it. Months later and after several encrustings with bugs and several washes, the paint is still fine.
Scuffed housing with scotch brite and painted with VHT gloss black caliper paint. More pictures in my album under thrux mods.-T1
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