What color are the headlight bezels on a 69 GTX?

[MrDee]

I ordered new headlight bezels from OER and the don't look like the ones I have or any photo I pull up on the web. They are painted with a dark textured argent silver paint. I think they should be light silver argent paint. Which is correct?
This photo shows mine with the new bezel held in front.

 

[R413]

Light silver is Belvedere and Satellite.
Roadrunner has the darker textured argent paint.

The factory dark argent paint fades over time and gets lighter.

 

[68BabyBlue]

GTX is light argent. I’ve owned four ‘69s. Picture is my current one in 1971.

 

[dadsbee]

For the Love for my Father, My 69 GTX Restoration

 

[MrDee]

Light silver is Belvedere and Satellite.
Roadrunner has the darker textured argent paint.

The factory dark argent paint fades over time and gets lighter.

And how about the GTX?

 

[R413]

And how about the GTX?

Can't help on a 69 GTX, not been around them.

 

[dadsbee]

And how about the GTX?

Ya miss that link I posted...

 

[Black_Sheep]

 

[mr_belvedere]

Can’t tell from your pic, but did they mistakenly send you RR bezels?
Like others have pointed out, ‘69 GTX should be light argent.

 

[threewood]

My 69 GTX has the light argent bezels. Much different from the dark argent grill if you look at Black_Sheep's pic above.

 

[Black_Sheep]

My 69 GTX has the light argent bezels. Much different from the dark argent grill if you look at Black_Sheep's pic above.

The difference is like night and day…

 

[68BabyBlue]

When I bought GTX number five, the originals had been re-anodized, then painted with Road Runner argent. The car had been restored by a Chevy guy, who didn't know the difference. This was just one of many detail items that almost led to me to pass on the car. That was eventually outweighed by the fact the seller was a close friend of Jeff Bobst (builder of the Hemi Cuda convertibles featured in the Nash Bridges TV show). Jeff had supplied many premium OEM parts and assisted with the restoration.

I salvaged the bezels by spraying over the darker paint with light silver from a rattle can. With the thin layer on top of the textured argent, it was hard to tell them from correct originals. My current car for comparison on right, wearing correct restored bezels done by Kruisin Moons.