I'm going to get ripped up for this...

[Curly]

How the hell do they do them faux patina paint jobs? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gifI've seen some postings on here with garage names on doors that look 50+ years old...done last week. The one Ford truck in mind (Ionia maybe) had 'glass fenders but damn if the paint wasn't faded, looked like it had been sittin' in a boneyard for 30 years, even had streaks from "rain and rust" I have the real deal on a couple of panels on my'28 PU and would like to somehow "Match" the repop header panel and primered doors to the old stuff. Seems cooler to me than the cookie cutter flat black theme. My second choice would be red oxide primer but R/O primer w patina would be cool too.

[Fat Hack]

STREET RODDER magazine ran an article on it last month, showed how one guy pulled it off.

Ohio is close enough to Michigan...just build your ride, paint it and drive it...patina will "happen" before you know it!!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Plowboy]

"Titus" on the board here did a really good job of matching original with faux on his truck. Maybe he could tell you how he did it.

[hotrodladycrusr]

HotRodDrummer from Ionia has the truck your thinking about. Very cool looking. I have lots of photos I could email you if you'd like. Also, I can send you a copy of the Streetrodder article that was just in last months issue that kind of gave a step by step on how the process was achieved.

[Hellfish]

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HotRodDrummer from Ionia has the truck your thinking about. Very cool looking.

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from the Hunnert Car Pileup II

http://www.hunnertcarpileup.com/2003_pics/pileup_03_065.jpg

[badpat]

martha stewart would be proud, be sure to add a little holly as the christmas season approaches

[praisethelowered]

I know where you can get some stone washed jeans

[Curly]

Yep dats da truck...anyone have a close up of the 'green rust'?

Bad Pat...you must be reading some other posts HehHeh! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

PTL I already got some from the cool store that has a Chevy truck parked in the center of it called 'Old Navy'. They are the ones that only the tops of my legs and ass look faded.

Now it looks like I went to the junk yard w/o actually getting all yucky dirty and stuff! I wonder if they make my ass look big? Nope...it's not the pants.

Didja ever put on a pair of boxers and somewhere between your knees and your waist they sorta changed into a thong?

[3bytheknee]

Looks great to me. The gentlemen from NY who were at Bonneville this past August have mastered the patina art. There were several of them there. I've attached a couple of shots of one of their 3-windows. I also saw a 49 or so Chev pickup that was faded green and looked like a ranch truck. Had the "aged" name on the door like you describe. No ranch truck however, with a blown Jimmy 6 going way fast on the salt.

[3bytheknee]

And the udder picture......

[Curly]

My dad had a body shop and he once went on a long lunch break 10 minutes after he showed me how to color sand....looked just like that when he came back! Who'd a thunk 25 years later it would be a trend? ...another ass beating I didn't deserve! Oh well I still got plenty of 'shoulda gotta ass beatins' in reserve. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I do that with a buffing wheel on my good paint jobs every damn time!