Vinyl or paint….. Either way.. imo fake rust or wear sucks. But I have no aversion to a wrap that mimics a good paint job.
I'm doing a mild 50's custom. I read a yarn about some L.A. hoods riding around in a lowered kemp with 'purple fender skirts'. For some reason it fascinated me. I'm an automotive artist by trade. I plan on scanning some kinda montage of my favourite art pieces, and producing from them some lil' wraps for my fender skirts. Kinda old- school mural meets today's panache. In effect, A badass sticker, or decal. I'm hoping I can transgress fad-ism and have a bitchin' look that pays no mind to era-perfection. Something that works on account of the strength of the presented effect, regardless of era, or time when it was produced.
I am not a big fan of patina being an artistic creation. The exception to the rule would be the Joe Dirt car, which was a nicely done but not finished car that got makeup for a movie. It has hit the news again recently, but I saw it at the Spring Fling back when the movie first came out.
The local car show scene has a couple of regulars, One is mid 90s Firebird with complex, elaborate flames covering the front half of the car, that always has a sign on the windshield emphatically proclaiming "This is not a wrap" The other is a 90s Dodge ram that has been wrapped instead of painted. Single color, no effects, the owner claims it was $3000-4000 less than a paint job. Had to get close up to tell. I can see this becoming a trend in the land of econo driven builds and "Oh, That'll be good enough" frequently heard in these parts. Before We hear the cries of "not everyone can afford a fancy , high dollar paint job" be advised my car proudly wears Rustoleum spray paint.
I am under the assumption that a wrap telegraphs whatever is underneath it, so good bodywork is a must anyway. A friend purchased a brand new SUV last year. They couldn't locate a white one anywhere in the country at the time, so the dealer offered to wrap a black one. It looked great right away, and still looks good from 10 feet out. It is starting to lift under the headlights and such.
^^^ forget wraps for a minute. I find this jalopy disturbing. Straight pipes, no windshield or wipers & I can see no headlights. I do not care what is in the pipes, it is loud. I have neighbors that vote & this thing gives all hot rods a bad name. I am also reminded of the time I hit a pheasant ( 2-3 lbs ) on the windshield of my OT car at about 60+. & how many of you have had rocks or other stuff hit the windshield. Where would this driver end up? This thing is what gets hot rods banned from the streets.
Should mention; years ago I played hoodlum & road straight pipe bike but I was young & stupid. Also lived in the country. Times have changed & our hobby has to grow up, sorry for the rant
Cool patina…oddly enough, the orange wheels “work”…really like the whitewalls and the minimalist white pipes…no windshield, sort of like a dangerous motorcycle…sun glasses for bugs too…the holes in the doors and quarter panels on Henry original steel, criminal…the scrub line is definitely close, maybe raise it an inch…the pipes might have baffles, but then again it’s probably no louder than 50% of all Harleys…doesn’t look like a daily driver, but to me looks like lots of fun….JMHO…and fighting for our “freedoms” is a never ending battle!
You sir are ready for a Prius. The reality is hot rods aren't safe. How many cars have you seen running around with plate glass windshields that are era correct but really dangerous in real life. How many hot rods don't have seat belts? How many hot rods have misadjusted headlights? How many hot rods don't have airbags? My point is they are not safe, these cars were new 100 years ago, most of them saw their second life as a hot rod when some rebellious young man decided he wanted a car that was faster then a European sports car and as noisy as a fighter plane. Fast forward 60 70 or even 80 years later all those young rebellious men are now old men if they're still living they passed the torch so to speak and another generation or two later we are still building the same cars the only difference is we are all ages now. a hot rod is fun because they are not inherently safe at least my modern standards it could be the most amazing well-built car but it's not near as safe as a modern car. They are fun for the same reason an MG midget is fun when you're driving it on the edge of what it's capable of doing it's exhilarating and being a hot rod you take a little bit of pride in the fact that you built it from the ground up out of a bunch of castaway outdated parts and if you get complimented on it you feel like you're on cloud nine even though some people on the site will claim they don't like that they're full of it that's why they drive it but I digress... it doesn't mean it's smart to drive a shit box but at the end of the day it's about having fun with the time you got, should you get in a car without seatbelts or airbags with or without a windshield it's debatable but men have been doing stupid stuff like this since the beginning of time... Heck one look at the early Muroc or El mirage dry lake racing and you see guys wearing leather helmets in cars just about a sketchy is this one doing over a hundred miles an hour. I for one wouldn't mind taking a ride in the "death machine" it looks fun for about 5 minutes.
I'm pretty sure that if I was parked next to that late model fake patinaed wrapped 4 dr with anything I own, at a show, it would get far more attention than my junk. Some people are all about the latest trend/fad, and I'm sure he/she is quite proud....right on. The fake patina trend will see the same fate as the tweed interior, pastel paint cars of the 80's and 90's. To each their own, until/unless it adversely affects me.
. Boy I'll bet your fun at parties. I'll bet you hate motorcycles too. I'll keep my hot rod low, loud, dangerous.
I have a weird suspicion within the next 10 years or so you're going to see the 1990s come back strong including billet aluminum and tweed upholstery. We are seeing a resurgence of the 1970s and '80s here in So Cal big time, I don't frequent the car show circuit because I'm more about driving than looking but I do occasionally go to a car show now and then and square body pickups, square sedans, boogie vans and billet mini trucks are definitely starting to appear out of the woodwork, logically speaking the next in line is going to be the 1990s so pastel paint and Tweed will make a comeback... I almost guarantee it. I guess it makes sense, in the late 1980s into the 1990s was finding original late 40s land speed cars, (think the Pearson Brothers coupe it got restored probably 1992), by the late 1990s was all about the 1950s, the music the culture everything (I became an adult in this time frame and I still have a pompadour lol) the 2000s was all about the early 1960s though the muscle car era and today the guys that are in my basic age group (middle aged men) are all about the cars that were around when we were growing up (square bodies, vintage Japanese sh!t boxes exc) next is going to be the early jelly Bean cars along with billet and Tweed... The vinyl wrap cars are all the rage right now but it will fall out of favor and then it has to go through a 30 to 40 year ghetto stage then it will come back although I can't imagine there is going to be a lot of people restoring Tesla's and mustang mach E's with vinyl wrap paint jobs all I can tell you is I will be an older senior by that point and I can already feel the cringiness.
Scrub line might be ok... just!!!.. assuming everything is tucked nicely underneath. Run a line on the pic and check.
@twenty8 - I hear ya, bro. But it looks damn close. Deflate a rear tire and that thing would be sliding. That's a bet I would take you up on. It is a cool hot rod! Nice and dangerous..
I'm going out on a limb and saying that scrub line was probably not high on the builders list of priorities...
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