The optional wide trim on top of the doors next to the window fuzzies is aluminum on my car. I think it was originally anodized but mine is pretty scratched up. I haven't found a good way to polish it - I'll try the stuff suggested above.
I'm just finishing up polishing my sill plates. I bought aluminum polish off the web that works great. Can't think of the name. Let me tell you, they are buffing up from an oxidized grey to a mirrored shine. Very tedious, and my fingernails are suffering from all the gouging I'm doing in the grooves. But well worth it. Simichrome is a very good polish too. Available at motorcycle dealers.
How could I tell anodized vs. non-anodized aluminum just by looking at it? What stores could I find the Busch products at? I didn't have any luck finding it at my local Napa.
Yardley, yardley, yardley.......that's why they make Dremel tools with polishing/buffing wheels. I tried to do a set of finned valve covers for my 71 Corvette by hand and could not even come close to a machine polish/buff. I saw a guy at a Corvette show do a set with Busch Al Polish and it came out like a mirror. Toothpaste will work ok but does not have the chemicals like Busch Al Polish has in it. Here is a link to a kit: http://www.zcarparts.com/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TZS&Product_Code=80-8204
