Look at this Patina !

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Mike Acebo
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Look at this Patina !

#16 Post by Mike Acebo »

I am always amazed at the artistic skills shown by some car painters. Here is a 32 fiberglass rat rod with a great paint job:


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photo borrowed from Dwight at the Club Cobra

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Greg Banfill
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#17 Post by Greg Banfill »

"Real" Patina here.
Not painted on.
Bare metal and mother nature did a job on this one before i ever got it.

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I have a painted one, so I'm not going to bother this one.
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#18 Post by John Clark »

I am spending thousands to get rid of rust, oh well I guess I am going in the wrong direction. I know now its just 'patina' on my longintudinals and pans, etc.

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#19 Post by Mike Klapac »

Definition: a surface appearance of something grown beautiful, especially with age or use, which adds value to an antique or collectible and should not be cleaned.

Just age age and use. If you think surface rust is beautiful, then it's patina'd. Leave that thing in the weather for too long and it will be a masterpiece!

Fake patina, ESPECIALLY on fiberglass cars, is, is ....I don't want to incite. Let's just leave it at FAKE.

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#20 Post by Ron LaDow »

John,

"I am spending thousands to get rid of rust, oh well I guess I am
going in the wrong direction. I know now its just 'patinia' on my
longintudinals and pans, etc.
JOHN CLARK"

If your pans are still there, you can call it 'patina'. When they're gone, it's 'rust'.
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#21 Post by Jake Miller »

ok just a question for the folks who do not care for "patina" or ratty original paint. Say a person stumbles upon a nice 356 sitting in a field or barn, or in someones garage, that has had a more tough life and it is covered in sun burned paint and/or surface rust. Say this person has enough funds to buy the car as it is a screaming deal, but does not have any funds to do much else with it but drive it. Should he keep it locked away in a garage until he has the money stock piled to restore it? Or should he just sell it off so the next guy can restore it? Not everyone is in the position to have a car restored or purchase a nice original one. Or would you like to hand out money for restorations? That would be oh-so-kind!

I love perfectly restored cars, I love perfectly original cars, and I love weathered original cars...they all have their place and their particular owners/drivers. Fortunately we all have slightly different tastes and that is what makes this all fun right?



although I do think faux-tina is lame

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#22 Post by Dave Brenny »

Jake,
You forgot the most important question: should he just jump in and
drive the heck out of it? That'd be the answer I'd check off!
Dave
I agree with you on the self-imposed rust

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ok just a question for the folks who do not care for "patina" or ratty
original paint. Say a person stumbles upon a nice 356 sitting in a
field or barn, or in someones garage, that has had a more tough life and
it is covered in sun burned paint and/or surface rust. Say this person
has enough funds to buy the car as it is a screaming deal, but does not
have any funds to do much else with it but drive it. Should he keep it
locked away in a garage until he has the money stock piled to restore
it? Or should he just sell it off so the next guy can restore it?

I love perfectly restored cars, I love perfectly original cars, and I
love weathered original cars...they all have their place and their
particular owners/drivers. Fortunately we all have slightly different
tastes and that is what makes this all fun right?



although I do think faux-tina is lame




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IMHO

#23 Post by Richard Cadmus »

"Oh, what tangled webs we weave, when first we practise [sic] to deceive" ~Sir Walter Scott

IMHO .... the wrong car got the "patina" job. It would have been more effective on the red speedster sitting next to it (... but not to such an extreme. Sometimes less really IS more).

I had a fiberglass '34 Chevy 3-window coupe Classic Race Car a few years ago that got the "patina" treatment done for me by a very talented airbrush artist in East Tennessee. Rusted bullet holes, rusted door edges and rusted aluminum rivets on the fiberglass body were so believable to one potential buyer that it kept me from selling him the car because "it looks too heavy with that steel body and it needs paint." I just smiled and said .... Oh, well.

(RHD? .... take a closer look) ;)

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#24 Post by Brian Tourville »

http://safestrustremover.com/

:shock:

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#25 Post by Richard Cadmus »

hmmmm .... looks like it's just a matter of time before some SoCal biker cuts up a 356 Coupe and turns it into an all chrome 3-wheeler ... {sigh}
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#26 Post by Brian Tourville »

Richard Cadmus wrote:hmmmm .... looks like it's just a matter of time before some SoCal biker cuts up a 356 Coupe and turns it into an all chrome 3-wheeler ... {sigh}



hmmm.. Would Two Wheels do ?



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#27 Post by Ron LaDow »

Mark,

"My car is a real car... it just looks like something its not. Most
people like it, some get angry when they find out it is not an
original Speedster. I enjoy it and drive it..something I probably
wouldn't do if it were a true classic. All I can say is if the shoe
fits.....
Mark Hjelm"

All of this is fine by me.
As soon as you claim Tupperware as Waterford, I have a problem.
And if the shoe fits....
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#28 Post by Mark Hjelm »

I'm sorry if I offended anyone with the P word. That word should only be used when talking abut porcupines.
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#29 Post by Mark Hjelm »

but that is my red ,tupperware VW/Speedster next to that rusty tub. Oh and it was nice to meet you Dirk.
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Oh No!!

#30 Post by mike collinoff »

Ohh No Mark, how could you, what are you thinking a VW Speedster for shame !!!!, Well I Never!!
M. :shock:
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