Old, weathered paint.......

Helped one of my buds get this one home yesterday.

 

Gotta love real patina. I get sick of people asking me...when ya gonna paint her? I always answer....she is painted.

 

I'm rebuilding a 1958 Dodge D400 1-1/2 ton. It has a 315 poly soon to be replaced with a 1958 Dodge D700 354 hemi. I have a 9 foot utiline box (stepside) for it that luckily is in very nice condition.

I also have a 1958 Dodge W100 1/2 ton. It to has a 315 poly soon to be replaced with a 1958 Dodge D500 315 hemi. I've got nothing against the poly at all, I just had a golden opportunity to get both hemis.
Thanks, Steve

 

Does old weathered primer count?



Also pictured, Oooolga- a great chicken (R.I.P.)

 

Here's a '46 I owned several years ago, I saw it at Dixie Fried last year and it still looks exactly the same. I actually wish the Fory I'm working on now had the same finish.

 

1920 REO....Thanks for selling it to me Frank...lots of fun...

 

Here's a few more from our stable,the 51 Ford Coe and our 59 chevy Apache and another shot of the GMC 2 ton.

 

Here is 2 of mine sporting the original colors . Not complete to be driven and after the work will be all changed shame too seen some nice one's here in the pics above .

 

Mike

www.Customikes.com

 

my old 53

 

This is mine....apparently was pristine until it was left in an open shed for 9 years.

 

my patinaed cars 27 t's,,aa,,34,,46 w 36ooo orig miles 57 orig paint

 

I loved the perfect patina on this international. I regret trading it off, the wheels were seized but the motor was free, should've cleaned it up and sat it on an S-10 frame, instead of splicing a rustier truck into an S-10.

 

my truck has 25 year old paint and the right front has primer showin.

 

Larry
This post has got it in spades friend.

I don't have anything at my disposal to add but I have got to say, I like old paint, I'd just nearly give a testicle to find an old one that all I had to do was clean it up and drive it.

My last was the Galaxie, it had a gawd knows how old Earl Schieb job on it, Mid-night Blue. All I had to do with the paint was spend a couple of days with the past wax and some towels.


My next will be painted black single stage enamel (unless I can get my hands on a couple gallons of laquer) I always park outside in a year or two it should start takeing on some character.

Anyway back to it,
You never cease to amaze me with what you come up with to post.

Django
Once you can see light through it its no longer patina. Then it becomes the abscence of patina.

That's why I didn't post The Pusher its reached a point where where it is hard to tell where the patina ends and the abscence of patina begins.

 

Heres mine I too had to fake a few panels, but the rest is genuine!!!!

 

what a awesome thread. i think i just drooled on my keyboard

 

Here's a couple of Mother Nature's paint jobs from the dry southwest!

 

Here's my '63 Buick:

 

I picked up this Merc this fall, problem is it needs both rockers, one front fender dogleg, and some work in the lower rear quarters. By the time that's fixed I think the "patina" will be ruined. I don't know if I'd feel right trying to blend it in.







My '50 Lincoln standard coupe got patina'd by a snowplow in '62.



This Avenger GT I sold a while back, wish I would have kept it, the old paint on it make it look like something more than just a kit car.







My '57 Chevy was some kid's high school hotrod in the 70's, has some old (very amateur) pinstriping on it, kinda neat but not neat enough to overlook that it's a four door with the back doors filled in with mud. This car is getting a 2 door sedan roof and doors when I get to it (which could be 10 years from now at the pace I work)



I think the early cars pull off the faded look better anyways. The best looking weathered 50's cars were customized years ago and show the old custom paint and mods.

 

70 year old washington blue.

 

Original paint.........Z.D.

 

Awesome thread! I love cars with what I like to call character. One day when I get my hands on an older car, it will be the same way.

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Here's a couple of mine. I no longer own the Poncho

Bobby

 

Here's one of mine. Real patina only happens once. Regretfully may be for sale soon.

 

My '41.

 

a few from my "project pile", some have terminal patina-itis.... (66 cyclone, OT 77F150, '56 Fairlane, '54 Crestline)

 

Just picked this one up