Well, here's the latest. I'm doing it myself. I've removed the grille and headlight bezels. I've located and selected the individual companies (people) local to my area (Los Angeles) to do the various steps of the restoration (i.e. anodize stripping, scratch/ding/dent removal and polishing, re-anodizing, painting/powder-coating). I used a dremel with a grinding wheel to remove ALL the rivets holding the grille together (including all the brackets). I tried drilling them out, but found it nearly impossible to get the bit straight-on for a clean drill. Found it SO MUCH easier to use the dremel. Just took my time (3+ hours) and was very careful while grinding off the back side of the rivet. Pieces came apart very easily once rivets were ground down. Using a 'punch' helped to knock out the stubborn rivets after grinding. I stripped the Argent paint off myself using 'aircraft paint stripper'. The process took me (first time ever doing this; even stripping paint) 6 hours from start to finish (laying down the tarp to cleaning it up). That's for two headlight bezels and two grill pieces. The results were AMAZING! Using 0000 steel wool and a plastic scraper I was able to remove ALL the 37 year old paint after FOUR separate applications of the stripper. Each application of the stripper was left on the pieces for about 20 mins. The old anodizing has been stripped (about $100.00). The scratch, ding, dent removal is being done now (about $65.00). Re-anodizing should cost about another $100.00, and the black-satin powder coating, about another $100.00. I've included some pictures of the pieces before and after paint stripping. I'll post some new pictures after I receive the pieces back from anodizing and as the progress increases. You can see pix of the grille as it was on the car in earlier posts to this thread. Thanks.
