Featured Art & Inspiration Earned Patina - How Did Your Vehicle Get It ? - Tell The Story Here …

Here's my heap. I bought it from a flipper who got it from the original family. Bought new in '28 from a Ford dealer in Cherry Hill, NJ. I have the original dealer's envelope with the price written in pencil on the back.

Bought new in '28, took it all apart in '40. For some odd reason, had not place to keep the cowl, so cut the subframe about 2" back from the A pillar and that portion sat outside.

Had to replace the gas tank, but I still have the original one. It's a blast to drive. Every now and then I think of painting of it, but then logic prevails and I just coat it with Gibbs oil.

 

In my mind patina is old weathered paint that has stood up to time, without rust. This paint was on this car, from the first time I saw her in 1968 as an 11year old. The first pictures are 1972 and 1973 when my ownership began. The others are current:

 

Our '56 Pontiac wagon. Story was it was parked under a tree behind a bar for a long time. Bought on eBay in 2005 from @Mule Farmer and shipped from Holland, Michigan to Maryland and eventually onto Atlanta where it was originally built about a half mile away from our home in at the now gone Doraville GM plant. It had been painted a grey green over the original baby blue and the PO wet sanded it back to the original paint leaving some dark paint in dents and around emblems and trim. We do not have enough garage space for it so it lives in the driveway under a harbor freight carport that keeps it dry inside as all the windows leak. Runs and drives but needs lots of love. The paint, especially on the roof, has certainly gotten worse under our ownership, I have a few pics from many years ago where it was more paint than rust. Once I gave it the CLR treatment and the rust came back with a vengeance. The CLR operation just exposes raw metal and makes more sites to rust if one does not seal the surface. My wife loves her car and has named in "Vivian." She removed and rebuilt the engine herself with the help of a friend. It needs lots of lower body rust repair and a bit of chassis repair at the rear X. When my '40 is done it will get the full treatment. Its a huge job but I should be mostly retired by then and the kids will be off and I will have the time to do it right.

 

That is a battle wagon !

Here is a 1959 Edsel Villager
station wagon that I hauled
about a year ago from one
brother in Kansas to another
brother in Michigan …



It had an interesting life
and patina - the story is here …

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Jim
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Wish I was lucky enough to say I got it from Ken Schmidt.
Sure miss that Gentleman, Hot Rod Legend!

 

My 51 was painted in the mid 70’s…bodywork and paint in exchange for a Yamaha 360 Enduro. It spent most of the time inside until 2006 when it was relegated to sitting outside. It is showing its age but I don’t think it will ever get a new coat of paint now.
My “new to me” 58 Dodge was painted in 2003, has less than 1000 miles on it since then and has been stored inside and regularly polished since paint. The paint looks great…seems odd to have a shiny old vehicle in the garage to be honest.

 

I don’t know much about the history of my 47 Chevy. I think it was fixed up and painted in the 1990’s, based on the wheels that were on it, which I removed. It think it has seen a whole lot of Florida sun. It does have an old bumper sticker on it from Clearwater, FL.

 

She spent a few years in a pasture. See the tree in the bumper

 

Said it was found in Broken Arrow Oklahoma and it wasn't me that found it.

 

"Often imitated; never duplicated".

Mine got that way by sitting patiently in a single stall garage for 40+ years. The day I picked it up, vs present day. Was painted sometime pre- '74. Every time I drive it (which is often) a little more paint flakes off. Seems me and the car have similar bald spots...

 

I've known this car for a while....15 years ago I "judged it" in the roadster class at a car show I was asked to help out on....I remember making note of how cool it was like it rolled out in the mid 70's and was never updated.

Fast forward 13 years and the opportunity fell in my lap to buy this actual car!

I've been working on car with new motor (283/292 replacing the worn 307), trans, new wiring & new interior (thanks to the mice), rebuilt rear-end (old corvette rear end), etc.

Im replacing the fiberglass fenders that were on the car with steel fenders for the roadster I got from Dave Simard.

I cant touch the body. It has some "war scars", cracked lacquer, and pin-stripe loss here and there, but to remove and re-do would be a sin. This is the story of the car perse.

On the back over the license plate is a the date and the strippers name that stripped the car in detroit at the "mini-nats" see attached....Id be a fool to erase that history.

That patina is staying! I even managed to get some lacquer paint for the fenders (hard to do in the bluest state in the union)......

* The first picture is the day I bought her. I hired a flatbed to bring home.
* The second picture is the pinstriper's signature and location of where he striped it.
* The last picture is from a few weeks back bringing it to the upholstery shop with some updates I've done.

 

I'm the third owner, first one outside of the family to own it. Its an unrestored original, with a few touched up places. This is what looks like now, and how it should look in the spring.

 

One of my all time favorite cars! It is just right!