Spray on chrome? West coast customs

A couple of years ago, I bumped into a guy I knew who had quite a bit of his classic truck done with the chrome painting process and was done at a shop I was familiar with. I was thinking of having the early '60 slant six valve cover being done in Mopar blue chrome and another in Mopar red chrome. Lucky for me, I stalled around trying to pull the trigger on doing it. I ran into the guy later and told him my plans. He told me not to waste my time and money. But they were all claiming it was chrome color powder coating. Thats why the confusion in my post #5. Sorry about that CudaChick. Bruce