thanks for the pics. that definitely helped a lot.

 

I used Krylon Wrinkle Finish. I got it at ACE. It will wrinkle just like the factory paint. When I put on the SE AC it came with the ugly gray intake tubes. I painted the tubes with this paint started the engine and the heat from the engine wrinkled the paint in about a minute.

You can paint small parts put them in the oven at 350 degrees.(Preheat first then shut off oven) Let them stay in there till the paint wrinkles take them out and let cool. Can't tell if the parts came from the factory or home painted.

 

Before you could buy "wrinkle" paint in the store we used to get that effect another way. Wrinkle finish looks like "re-coat lift" which is normally something you want to avoid. They put something in the paint to make it do that now. You can get the same effect (especially if you want a wrinkle color that isn't available in a can) by just re-coating outside the re-coat window specified in the directions. Normally the instructions will be something like "after 10 minutes and before 2 hours." If you re-coat at 4 hours it will wrinkle like a prune. Nice to know if you ever want wrinkle red or blue or yellow, etc.