Restoring white headlight surrounds Options

[PancakePorsche]

I have typical cruddy, yellowed white headlight surrounds on my repainted car and I want to restore them the best I can.

Painting them would be easy and look o.k. but I know it is kinda frowned upon by the purest because it is not original and I agree.
Any known tricks out there ?

[scotty b]

Funny this comes up. I was just last night playing with this as Cairo's have been completely rattle canned black. I have about 5 other sets of white surrounds and ALL of them have either been repainted black, grey primer, or body color. My first attempt was with one that had a LOT of red overspray on them. Aircraft remover got the paint off without affecting the surround, but it has a red stained look to it now. I may try Pat's Clorox method on it next, to see if it will remove the stains. I'll try one of the black ones next to see how it fares as the red looked almost like red oxide primer

[mepstein]

Funny this comes up. I was just last night playing with this as Cairo's have been completely rattle canned black. I have about 5 other sets of white surrounds and ALL of them have either been repainted black, grey primer, or body color. My first attempt was with one that had a LOT of red overspray on them. Aircraft remover got the paint off without affecting the surround, but it has a red stained look to it now. I may try Pat's Clorox method on it next, to see if it will remove the stains. I'll try one of the black ones next to see how it fares as the red looked almost like red oxide primer

The white ones on my '71 are painted black. I heard oxyclean works as well as bleach. I've had ok luck with the windshield washer bottle. It's hard to reverse 45 years of chemical reaction on the plastic. I'm pretty ok with white plastic paint on white plastic. I won't loose sleep at night. I appreciate that Scotty b sweats the details. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)