Its hard to have the real patina when you have done a bunch of work. There is not a floor or rocker in this truck,around the windows was good tho Here is a bit of what we rebuilt up in these parts.This in my 49 Hillman.back of the car was rotted so I made a truck from it. It may be fake but I like it.Can`t leave it alone as is cause the truck needs more patch work then I care to talk about.You must remember that up here in the rust belt cars don`t last long.If you can find a old car with the frames around the windows in good shape your in business,it don`t matter that there is not a floor or rocker to be found on the rig.I am a bodyman by trade and spent 20 some year painting custom paint,shiny is more work to look after then I care to talk about.been there done that.The flat black thing is beat to death so I am looking for a neat look that I don`t have to spend hours preping the body for paint,ding and dent!! I can live with them.I just want to have something I can drive and not worry about a body job and paint that I have a million hours into.Get into it and drive. This will take the most talen as they will need to look like they were chewed by rats. It will be the one that always sat in the back corner just waiting for some fool to anty up a race!īe sure to let the photo's air dry (it'll add patina to them too), oh and scuff them up with steel wool too! Maybe use those snazy scissors that cut curves in the edges too.Īlso since the outside is beat looking make sure to cut up the seats. Once the pictures are printed crinkle them up and throw them in the washer with your rockbilly outfit (you know the one you wear on weekends) and place them in the glovebox so you can "just happen to have them" in case a greybeard walks by and says he remembers that car from his formative years. Oh yeah if you follow the steps outlined above make sure to take lots of black and white pictures in generic locals (you would hate for someone to see a modern Mcdonalds in the background). Then people will think your retarded for not bringing it back to it's former glory, rather than being retarded for painting a car two different colors and ruining it! Why not just destroy the current paint job so there's primer and steel showing though, then the steel will rust and you'll have to make up stories about how the car was originally a 60's era master peice that you found in a creek just waiting for you to rescue it, but you plan on leaving it just how you found it. If you can teach yourself to build the car, you can teach yourself to paint the car.The idea of painting a car two contrasting colors sound very Martha Stewartish. Even using modern paint I can generally cut and buff out most of my mistakes. Yes, lacquer is high maintenance, but its doable. That car is gorgeous and came out of his garage. I mean look at the lacquer on PGAN's sedan. I think its just an excuse for don't want to spend, and not willing to put in the labor. But decent quality drive quality paint isn't all that bad, and if you're cheap like me you can teach yourself to do something livable in your garage. Show car paint is gawd awful expensive, but most of us don't own show quality cars. I admit I am the guy that parks farther out in the parking lot to avoid door dings, but hell I need the exercise anyway. I drive them everywhere and they are not destroyed. Where do you drive? My OT daily drivers are both black, and both worth more than any Hot Rod I've owned. I also never understood this excuse that "if I paint it nice, I can't drive it". Why anyone would want to replicate this with paint is beyond me. And now it seems like a contest to see how crappy it can be. Left out in a field for fifty years then clear coated to "preserve" the rot and destruction - I just don't see the appeal. It has taken on character with age and use. A paint job that has aged and worn a bit. To me Patina is illustrated by a car like HRP's 32' sedan. I think the word Patina has been bastardized along the way. But its yours, so the only opinion that matters is yours. If it were mine it would get painted in some form.
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