Hot Rods PATINA / how Bitchin' is it?

Overplayed. The fakers ruined the appeal for me.

 

Real (but temporary) patina:

 

Patina (as in worn paint) gets a pass on a car with a history (not at some yahoo track either). Rust, is..... fucking rust. The idea is to get rid of rust. I dare say, there are NO members here, who got a new bike at Christmas and wished it was rusted out. Neglect has NEVER been popular and no matter how hard a person trys to validate it, it's still shit.

Your thoughts and opinions may vary. USA.....USA.....USA

 

What's a "yahoo track"?

 

I was thinking the same on the Yahoo track comment.

If it has other competitors, its a race track to me

 

Too busy to work on my 37', it's a driver. Any free time goes to the 40'

 

My 32 ford roadster painted in 1952

 

A small, one horse town track with no national signifigance.

 

My brothers and I used to get used bikes for Christmas........They were repainted and had new tires tho.

 

Are we really doing the patina thread AGAIN?

 

My old coupe had a little....

 

She'll get paint after the 36 is done. Till then she gets the wheels driven off of her.

 

So you can go to the show and argue about who's car has the most rust. LOL

 

Since your posting pics, how about adding some to your build thread. It's only been like 10 pages

 

More people would look at my "patinaed" 35 then a $100,000 street rod parked next to it. Hate the crappy look but it gets the looks.I will do more to it......someday.

 

Hey Scrappie, love your coupe.

 

I'll get to it this weekend, maybe.

 

Why would this thread be locked down? If my thread subject is not allowed I do apologize as I did not try to ruffle any feathers.

 

Worn paint & a little rust not traditional? Depends on the period. Prewar & immediate post war cars were typically rougher around the edges than later varieties. Note the following examples (rusted out bun panels on the RPU and little in the way of uniform paint on the others)...somebody might ought to go back to the 40's and set these guys straight.

 

This somethin like what your lookin for?

 

love patina...it lets you see how much bondo is not on the car....

 

I agree

 

LOL!!! Very True!

 

Hey Larry,is it time for poo yet?
O wait someone has to say something bad about poo

 

Love the Patina but need to do the bodywork. Can't drive Hammered Shit.

 

I fell for it and bought this... I drive it work.. and everwhere else I can.

 

Only repaint in 1969 and going to stay that way.

 

I'ts get'n popular down here,me,i'm on the fence!

 

By the time my little brother got his 20" bicycle, mine looked like crap...I mean patina.

So I told him we were gonna make his bike look cool like mine. Got out Dad's hammer and went ot work on the rear fender. Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap.

Mom came out of the house and yelled, "Ricky! What are you doing to your brother's bike???!!!

So in answer to your question...Mom doesn't like "patina" and really started "bitchin".

Hope that helps.