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Glad to hear that Al is still going strong. He has refinished at least 2 sets of wheels for me and did excellent work for a very fair price. I was 100% pleased and I'm picky.

I've heard the same thing about chroming and Fuchs rims. When I sold new Porsches in the '80s at Westwood Porsche/Audi, Robert Woods used to come in and talk the boss into letting him chrome the wheels on showroom cars and it just made my skin crawl. Partly because I hated the look but also because I knew even then that he was depleting the supply of Fuchs rims in the world. The rims that I'm thinking of, (on a car I'm thinking of buying), are AMG monoblocks on a MB. I imagine they're forged but don't know(?)