To Clean, To Shiny

Bought my Model A in pieces a few years ago. Rebuilt the parts needed to go and stop, drive it everyday. Have duct tape interior over original cloth, can poke a hole right thru the material. Love the car, hate the shiny bad body job that was done prior to buying the car. I want to age the paint, rough it up, make it look like a never painted, some what rusty original. Any suggestions on how to or any articles on the subject??? Thanks rusty

 

how about let it get its "patina" on its own with age? ya cant rush a good thing....dont be a "wanna be"...let it do its own thing. my 2cents advise.

 

i agree with nvrrdunn ''patina'' doesn,t look good unless it,s the real deal

 

Maybe some steel wool or very fine sandpaper, and make sure it's always parked in the sun? I've not tried it, but if I needed more patina, that's what I'd try.

 

any pics?

 

You are joking right?

 

Hey, while your at it you should take off one or two of the hubcaps, and hit the other ones with a hammer so they get dinged and dented. Don't forget to carefully cut the top with a razor blade in a few spots. But be careful so it looks real old. A cracked side window would be the ultimate though!

 

Ask Muttley he did it and it came out awesome.

 

Use my famous two-step process..

 

Sorry dude, I'm with the others. What then? You lie about the history of the car? If you don't want to take care of it, I guess that's your choice. Maybe while driving it, you could wear one of those t-shirts with the muscles painted on, and listen to some hair metal while your at it. A total fake experience.

Nah, just kidding...drive it in the lake for the winter. Come spring you'll have all the 'patina' you could ask for.

 

If the paint job is really ugly you could try carefully sanding off some of the paint and see what is underneath.....might have a real intact 75 year old paint job there..warts and all.

 

Get a 16 grit grinding disc and put it on a grinder that spins at least 6000 RPM and go over the whole car with it. Then pull the engine and trans. Attach a 30 foot tow strap to the front axle,tow the car to the nearest boat launching ramp and push it in the water backwards until fully submerged. Tie the tow strap to some permanent object on the shore and go home. Come back on March 27th (or the first thaw) and tow the car home. Reinstall the enigne and trans, drain the water from the rearend and fill with STP and sawdust and your good to go....

 

Bring it buy my house, give me twenty bucks, I'll make sure it's not clean or shiny.

 

You guys are brutal.......

 

It's Karma for having your very first post being about how to make fake patina.

 

I know this idea is way out there, and not considered hip, cool, hard core, old school, or traditional. it is not the latest trend, though I would like to see it become one.

why don't you strip it down to bare metal, do some high quality body work, and paint it with the best materials you can afford. then colorsand and buff until it is as perfect as you can get it.

...then drive the hell out of it and allow the patina to come naturally.

 

I like this or just park it out side and drive it alot .

 

Guys, I'm not trying to decieve anyone or create a fake patina. I happened to buy a car that someone took apart and intended on restoring. They lost interest and I bought the car in boxes. They did do the body. The body is in pretty bad shape but has a very high gloss paint job that shows every inperfection. I just thought I would ask you guys your opinion on making the body match the rest of the car. Thought this forum was about cool cars not trying to be fake.

 

I agree a poor repaint looks worse than original paint. Just scotch brite it, rub her down with a little wax and grease remover , and shoot it with primer the color of your choice. (epoxy primer if you want it water proof). There, I took you seriously. Oh yeah, that's TOO clean, TOO shiny.

 

Do you have a picture of the car? I was about to be the first to respond earlier on, and say what a lot of the others had said. But, if what you say is true about having a glossy paint job over a ****ty body, that could probably use some dulling down... Which is what you seem to be after.

The suggestions already made seem good, so I'd suggest trying the steel wool or something along that line. Those who were harsh misunderstood your purpose, I'd say. Don't take it the wrong way, because I initially thought it was a rather stupid idea, too! But, your new evidence for your purpose helps out...

Hope it works well, whatever you end up doing.

-Gregory-

 

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Rather than try and make something of the paint that,s already on it, why not just shoot some primer over it?

 

You'll get lots of help here if you go about it right. The first thing you should do is head over to the intro section and post a little intro. It's the right thing to do. Stick around. You'll be glad you did.

 

How about wipin' it down with a rag soaked in enamel reducer or laquer thinner? That'll dull 'er down...and post some before and after pics....

 

Thanks for the info. I will soon post some pics and visit the intro section and post some info. Thanks Rusty

 

How about just do some body work on the spots that aren't so good and primer those that's way it's usually done like you know when you don't have million bucks, Shiney is cool just fix the bad parts and primer those spots. Patina happens in time only, Fake **** happens at K-mart