67 console gauges

[67ragmaro]

Just got my new OER gauge pack and it looks great, I also found a "orig console with the gauge pod and parts of the gauges" at carlisle this last fall plus I have the orig. pod from the car with date sticker still intact. Question is ... the orig pod has chrome trim around the gauges, the other 2 do not. Was this area left black to I D the repro? Or did some one remove the paint on the orig. pod somewhere along the way ? Thanks, Bruce     

[rod67ss]

Have seen originals both ways - don't know why.

[Farm Boy]

I bought these gauges over twenty years ago and the chrome "bezels" were not painted. I have always assumed this was the handy work of a PO as I have never seen another set of 67 gauges painted this way. I think they look better chrome so I will not be painting them black.