Let's see your patina'd 55-57 chevys

I don't know if it's patina or not, but it is 30 to 40 year old badly applied paint. I will eventually get around
to fixing it, but it's not high on my priority list.

 

that's not a total.

 

when didn't it?

 

a few more of wild 55

 

Abomb,, Thats wonderful patina for sure!

 

A few more if you dont mind.. after about 29n years of storage and then a frame off but left all my high school body patina from the 1970s

 

Heck Wrong photo..The white little P-car is not mine. must have been the same #.. Sorry about that..

 

Here's mine before the accident. My avatar is the result.

 

If "patina" you mean rust,here's my 56. As a shameless plug, I need a good cowl for this--like from the windshield to the floor, in So Cal, if anybody has one!!

 

Here is one

 

2 more I found.

 

...mine from back in mid 60's...

 

heres a wagon i had

 

I'll have to dig out the photo and copy it. There is a 57 more door here in the area that won the award for the "most original" tri 5 Chevy at a national tri 5 meet a number of years ago. the guy probably still has it sitting in the same condition. The paint and chrome were worn thing by washing and polishing over the years but it had NO RUST and no dings. I think it even had the original factory air in the original tires that came with it. The car had never spent a night outside and had belonged to the proverbial little old lady who only drove it to the hair dresser and church.
While guys would have fits over it now, it received more negative comments than all the other cars in the show combined at that show. That was several years ago when show goers expected the cars in the show to shine.

 

Timmy Don Rainmaker aka T-Town Tim's score. Cali frame and bumpers, beaches.

 

Here is a start:

 

Got you beat !!

 

Man I love thread.. Those original patina body's just send me with all there weathering/ history.

This Video is of WILD if you go all 3 min. you will hear the M22 at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEZ534kpr6g

 

PSB

I LOVE everything about your 55 ,

When I grow up I hope mine is half as nice....

Good work..

 

amen!!!

 

My '55 may not meet the strict requirements of the current definition of patina, but if you looked it over in person you would see right away that it is essentially untouched since being rodded in Long Beach in the late '60s-early '70s. It looks shiney and nice in photos but quickly shows its wonderful age up close. Even the 11:1/Duntov-cammed 327 engine has been in there since 1977 and still runs great. Interior is untouched for over 40 years except for the new shifter. '67 Camaro buckets in leather tuck (back seat too). 1963 black CA plates still with the car, restored, with 1964 and '65 reg stickers.

 

Its a SAD day here on my home front ,

Looks like I'm going to have to sell my baby.

But I will post it here ,in our classifieds first before I try anywhere else.......

 

Love this one! (Shopped the pics a little.) Black CA plates, five-spokes, pinner whites. I wouldn't change a thing!

 

I was considering selling mine until I came to my senses.

 

A little of what I like to call rat piss patina!!!

 

found a few more from my past