After tossing the bent and tore up chassis, I soaked the parts in dot 4 and then ran thru my typical LA's Awesome cleaner in my ultrasonic cleaner. Most everything cleaned up well but the plastics were slightly discolored by the paint that had been there for I'm sure quite a few years. Picked up some hot pink dye and had the chassis, nose, motor plate, and shock caps reanodized black. All in all it looks pretty good now.
And now off to eBay to recoup the money spent on the rest of the lot!
I had 3 chassis, nose, and motor plates and 12 shock caps done as a minimum charge of $20 to strip and $40 to coat. They also hard coat. I am not sure how much more it wood have taken to go over a minimum charge, he said its all about how much room it takes up on the racks. Because they are a small shop they don't have a ton of colors, and some just aren't worth doing for the little they would do. Still, they have violet, green, blue, red, copper, gold, and black...I don't remember the other colors he mentioned
