Are these painted black or body color?
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Mine are chrome. Don't know if that's correct, but all of the headlight retaining rings on every BMW and Porsche I've ever owned were chrome.
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late car, should be a satin black
Somewhere in 74 they switched from a polished stainless steel, to painted.
No chrome
Somewhere in 74 they switched from a polished stainless steel, to painted.
No chrome
QUOTE(914werke @ Sep 2 2023, 11:10 PM) 
late car, should be a satin black
Some where in 74 they switched from a polished stainless steel to painted.
No chrome
Ah, right... stainless, not chrome. Doh!
It has been a year since I removed it and I forgot. 
Thx Rich.
Thx Rich.
Mine are polished stainless steel on my 74 1.8 4/74 build month.
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