Need input for HOT ROD Mag Story: Patina

Rust and "patina" rides are just another trend. Took a few years to catch on, but it's still just a trend. Just like smoothy pastel pro street billet cars were the big trend about twelve or fifteen years ago.

Now everybody's on the patina bandwagon working overtime to prove what hardcore hot rodders they are, and it's all about trying to do the shit and live the life just like Eisenhower was still in office.

If I wasn't right, there wouldn't be articles in R&C about how to do faux-patina paint, and OSR wouldn't even be in business.

 

Patina is what well-worn and cared for leather can get; rust and birdshit etching on a car is what you get when you don't care for them, don't even consider it patina - that is spindoctoring and justification for low standards.

 

Let me say this, I've been a hot rodder since the fifties. Got side tracked around 1994 when I sold my 40 Chevy. A couple of years ago I picked up a copy of HRM and read an article about two guys who built a 32 roadster in thier garage for $11,632.00, or something close to that. That story about a fiberglass roadster and the quest to build a NICE lo buck rod got me back. I started gathering stuff to build my roadster, on a similar budget. I found a 29 Roadster body and fenders and other parts, ( all fiberglass) and got started for under $3000.00. I am now ( one year and 4 months ) into it and pretty much done. I painted it 2 weeks ago with 10 rattle cans of satin black just to even things out and get it all kinda the same. I think it turned out good. I lightly rubbed it with a fine scotch brite pad and in a few spots it wore a little thin and the primer shows through. I am not going for Patina but I guess some will say I was. What I am going for is a cheap way to have a nice "looking" car that My wife of 40 years and I can enjoy. And by the way, I saved every receipt for every penny I spent and am at $12,387.62. I still have to have the windshield cut. I think Patina is time honored and anything "faked" is just that, fake. I don't care if anyone else in the country likes my car, I do. Is it fake, sure, it's fiberglass, is it fun, you bet it is.

 

This is a pretty good thread. It's been driven a lot but well maintained. Even in the rain.
Old, historic race cars, hot rods and customs that are left original or as found have an unquestionable place and value.
If they are disintegrating maybe they should be restored to some degree. Like the old Dauntless dive bombers they've fished out of Lake Michigan.
As a long time model builder sometimes you try and make a 1/35 scale Sheman tank look like it's real and like it's been thru the Battle of the Bulge. As an artist you try to make a flat canvas look like something that is 3D. Has depth and has the illusion of being real, maybe old and weathered.
I've painted theatrical back grounds that looked like 3-D buildings and mountains. I think the well done fake patina is pretty cool as long as it's not being passed of as real. There was a guy here in Minn that had a 32 5 window that looked like an old dirt tracker. It was a few years ago before the patina wave. It was hard to tell it was not an old car. It was fiberglass too. Even more impressive. Some cars just look like rusty pieces of crap or a swing and a miss. Fake or real.
I've got quite a bit of patina from 54 years but I still want to clean up once in a while and look presentable.

 

Very well said, all of us who just want to enjoy hot rodding, and forget the labels and categories appericiate your reply!!!

oldschool66

 

"The honest female orgasm is three to fifteen rythmic contractions of the outer third of the vagina at .8-second intervals (the contractions follow the beat of the song "Surfin' USA"). Unless these contractions occur, you can regard her groaning, moaning, clawing, kicking, begging for mercy, and shouting filthy religious epithets as bargain-basement histrionics."

Exerpt from "The Hughes Engagement Guide" by John Hughes
National Lampoon Magazine, November 1979.

I read that thirty years ago and never forgot it.

Oh yeah, patina. Educated people know when it's being faked.

 

How can you tell when a woman is having an orgasm?

I always thought the answer was (if you are a guy), "Who cares?"

 

English is SO crazy
Vagina - va/JY/nuh
Patina - pa/TEE/nuh

Resume.

 

Ahhh crap, that's another one.

 

Pat Barnhart and his coupe...... Magazine photoshoot in early 90's I believe.

B.Jay Barnhart

 

holy four year old thread revival, batman

 

Six year old thread with no responses for three years and it was mostly drama, yet it somehow comes back to life.

 

gotta be enough #1 cars to write a article, lets get on it, gota be beter than leaf blowers

 

maybe he brought it back so it could be properly deleted.

 

Here is the real deal! NUTTIN phony bout this Sinister Stude! I have owned this rod close to 30 years!

 

pat's car belongs in this thread http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=711184

 

Wow I thought "fads" were in and gone in a year, this one started longer ago than I thought. I predict low buck fun will go on for a looooooooooong time .