![]() ![]() The Patina fad is NOTHING new, when I was growing up instead of calling it a patina truck we called it a "beater". I have a 65 mustang that's a show car, it's enough of a pain in the ass to clean and baby sit that. The flat will hide light dings, scratches will blend into the weathered "look" and I'll feel I can use my truck like I want to. I don't want rust, etc, but I want to put a color "primer" coat under a new paint job, and rub it down to look flat and worn. I posted a thread not too long ago about "ruining" my truck. I didn't have to hide it from people or "be careful" with it. I almost think I enjoyed it more than did I did after I painted it. My truck was flat black for almost 10 years. Then come the scratches and knicks and door dings. I used to love pretty trucks until mine was one. I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings, this is just my opinion, but it's time to wake put to the reality that you aren't going to be able to pick and choose original 40 + year old parts I cannot even find a decent Swb fleet bed in any color that is under $1000 ( in relatively dry central Texas)! I saw and ad on the parts forum that is looking for a Swb fleet bed in a particular color. I admit there is no harm in putting and ad out looking for the part in the color needed, but after a year (!) c'mon! It's time to wake up and realize it time to break out the paint gun. I then had the parts painted to match or painted the whole vehicle. I always try to track down original sheetmetal, not giving any notice to color. I have purchased several wrecked trucks and rebuilt them. I have been building old cars and trucks as a hobby for over 20 yrs. Now I have had someone contact me wanting me to sell a from clip off a running driving truck! Then i start seeing WTB ads from people looking for original paint parts. If you can teach yourself to build the car, you can teach yourself to paint the car.First it seems that I saw a lot of builders spending as much or more on a fake patina paint job (maybe they saw it on "Trucks" like I did). 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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