Thanks Guys and Gals!
And a thanks goes out to everyone who has posted on this site, I did a lot of searching on what people have already done to get ideas and learn the tricks. Thanks.
I will keep you guys posted on how it holds up.
I’m still amazed when I walk out and see the VX with the black bottom.
The Bumper paint is a satin paint so it is more forgiving than gloss paint and the cladding was near perfect before painting.
I went ahead and did the wheel wells also.
The two front bolts might have nuts on the backside, didn’t come right out so for time sake I left them in.

On the caliper paint, I used ford red high temp engine paint, under five dollars.
I sanded them down with coarse paper, careful the metal edges are sharp.
I taped off what I didn’t want painted on the caliper and wrapped a plastic bag around the rotors. (make sure vx has been sitting for a while, them rotors get hot!)
I always do two mist coats first, the calipers tend to want to bubble if you don’t. Then I put on two thick coats. Have some black paint ready to cover some of the overspray and to make some rust disappear.

As I was doing the calipers, I did take the stickers off the center hub caps. I used a razor knife backwards to lift up the lip of the sticker all the way around (careful the knife can scratch the caps) then sprayed them with carb cleaner(let them soak a little), it breaks the glue up very well.
Then peal them stickers off, spraying carb cleaner when needed. Have a big roll of paper towels handy. When the stickers are off, use WD40 to get them glossy.
Three stickers came off great, the last one had sun dried cracks all in it, pain to get off.