Patina paint jobs

[65standard]

A faux patina paint job is harder to do than a beautiful repaint. Most go over board on it. But they all lack the small dings, scrapes, and pin holes that Mother Nature produces.

Around here, the best I could find with natural patina was this truck.

As found it was really beat up. I saved it and cleaned it up keeping the original paint. It’s the closest thing I could come up with as a “Survivor”. It was more of a rescue from the dead.

[67_C-30]

Originally Posted by 65standard

A faux patina paint job is harder to do than a beautiful repaint. Most go over board on it. But they all lack the small dings, scrapes, and pin holes that Mother Nature produces.

Around here, the best I could find with natural patina was this truck.

As found it was really beat up. I saved it and cleaned it up keeping the original paint. It’s the closest thing I could come up with as a “Survivor”. It was more of a rescue from the dead.

Man, I’m gonna go out and wax some of my old junk and see if the bed will shorten back up like that! 😂😉

[89AKurt]

This is purely subjective.... and this is my opinion. I don't care for fake anything, some Rat Rods aren't convincing. I picked mine because it's original, and lived in the Southwest. The cowl panel has the most surface rust.

[SoCoC10]

Here are a few I've built over the years. Typically I use CLR, 0000 steelwool and a good coat Turtle Wax applied by hand.

[Indychus]

Not a C10, but here's my 1963 Turd Bird. It took 56 years to develop this original patina, so I'm not gonna paint over it. The first pic is after buffing it some and polishing the glass. The second pic shows how I found the car vs. the progress on half of the car after scrubbing with comet and scotchbrite to remove the funk. I plan to buff and wax one more time, reinstall all of the trim, and drive it as is.

[MaximusD]

Here is my "Patina" survivor, simply gave it a CLR bath, Clay bar and buffed with Meguires Ultimate Compound. Still plan on waxing it, but it did come back and I like the "age" showing. Thanks for looking

[67_C-30]

My latest acquisition is a rough old ‘Tina truck, but it runs like a new one, drives great, and everything works. A nice paint job is not in the cards for this truck right now, so I’m going to drive it as is. I’m planning on changing the wheels and tires, and making the interior a little nicer, but otherwise I’m going to rock her as is!

[67_C-30]

Same deal with this one. I’m going to clean it up, polish the trim, put another grill in it, repaint the wheels, and drive it ugly.

[tcarroll1963]

Who gives a **** if it's a fad and goes out of style. Build your truck the way you like it. I was wearing leather wraps on my arms and a chain on my wallet in high school, many years later it was a huge fad. Guess what I'm saying is do your truck the way you like not what other pepole like.

[CG]

I enjoy checking out the really nice trucks on the board. Those factory perfect paint jobs look amazing. All of my trucks have been used as trucks, non had anything close to perfect anything. But in my head I always wanted one of em to be finished close to perfection.

I have no road worthy 67-72 trucks right now. I picked up a very nice, very low mileage, 99 F150 a year or so a go. Wanted a reliable, nice looking truck I could use for a daily and my truck stuff use until I got one of our style trucks on the road.

I had plans of putting together a super nice 71 to use as my daily and as a truck. But as I use my F150 I find Im having to be super careful when Im using it as a truck so as not to scratch it up and turn it in to a pile.

It has me rethinking some ... Do I really want a super nice 71 that Im having to be very careful of as I use it for truck stuff, or do I want it to be like my last three trucks?
Rough around the edges and not worry too much if I get a little carried away with its truck duties.

The patina "style" definitely has some appeal to me.

[rjs53]

I'm the same way wanted a truck to just run around in and not worry about. My 03 dodge is used as a truck but I'm careful about beating up the outside. But just about anything goes inside the bed that I can fit. I thought when I painted my patina styles truck it would be the same, but I still don't like people leaning against it.

[54blackhornet]

Why is it you see so many with all the factory paint completely off the dog house ? Around me you see plenty of them like my GMC...

[Indychus]

Originally Posted by 54blackhornet

Why is it you see so many with all the factory paint completely off the dog house ? Around me you see plenty of them like my GMC...

Nice truck!

Those surfaces are wide and horizontal, so they just bake in the sun. Add in engine heat and the paint doesn't stand a chance. That's not unique to our trucks, lots of old cars do the same thing. The paint on our roof top seems to hold up better than most though.

[webfoot]

Originally Posted by 54blackhornet

Why is it you see so many with all the factory paint completely off the dog house ? Around me you see plenty of them like my GMC...

That is cool, where did that come from? Also where in EO are you?

[cashforclunkers]

Patina question. In a situation where something was resprayed 25+ years ago over the original paint with a crappy single stage paint, would you be able to "wear" through the second color into the original color and get a good patina effect?

By buffing or wet sanding? Its been in the sun ever since, and the paint is worn and dull but not "showing through". Basically its bad patina, and I was hoping to take a buffer to it or wet sand to get some more character showing without ruining whats there.

[rjs53]

That had been done to my truck. I used EZ off oven cleaner to take it off. I basically washed it off, the EZ off took the crappy paint off and left the original on. Maybe because it has lead in it or something I don’t know. You might try a little spot. Spray it and leave it for about 5 minutes the use a plastic bondo spreader to scrap or soap and water to wash

[72c20customcamper]

Originally Posted by 67_C-30

Man, I’m gonna go out and wax some of my old junk and see if the bed will shorten back up like that! 😂😉

Why ?



It may be just me but short bed trucks are go get groceries trucks . Real trucks are long beds . Even my 07 dodge is a long bed. Never had a short bed and I most likely will never .

[54blackhornet]

I’m outside LaGrande near Elgin. Truck was bought new by owner of Globe furniture in LaGrande. I got it in 2012 from him.

[67_C-30]

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper

Why ?



It may be just me but short bed trucks are go get groceries trucks . Real trucks are long beds . Even my 07 dodge is a long bed. Never had a short bed and I most likely will never .

Looks, value/resell investment, and popularity just to name a few reasons. I agree that a work truck is better suited to have a longer bed, flatbed, ramp, or dump, but most people ,including myself, much prefer the look of a SWB. The cold hard fact is that the truck in that picture above is worth more money and would be attractive to way more people if it was for sale in the SWB configuration.

That is doubly true in the case of patina trucks. A patina’d SWB truck is very desirable these days to a lot of people, whereas a patina’d LWB or C-20 is looked at as a rough old work truck. A lot of the same people that would lay down cash on it if were a SWB won’t give it a second look as a LWB.

I have a very solid patina’d ‘70 C-20 that I tried to sell for quite a while and people either wanted parts or wanted me to give it to them for almost nothing. If it was a SWB, I would have got good money for it a lot time ago.

[dmjlambert]

I like my old rusty standard bed truck, there's much more rust to see if it's an 8 foot bed, and I get plenty of complements on it. 65standard had great points in the post above. If you want to give your truck a fake patina, that is fine, but be sure to go all the way and give it some dings, outright dents, and scrapes. It's painful to do, but it'll be worth it. Almost every part of my truck has a dent or scrape. If you have fake patina, it stops being fake after that 5th dent, it becomes real.

[shoveldug]

Long bed Patina work truck

[Warrens69GMC]

My family wants me to paint the truck my dad got for free, not yet I tell them.

[72c20customcamper]

67-c30 I understand your points but I don't buy vehicles as investments. I buy what I like and if I liked a vehicle that was an original swb I'd buy it . But I would stay clear of a lwb cut down just my preference, like I won't buy a clone SS Chevelle I'll take a 300 over a clone anyday.


But enough of that.

[rjs53]

Let’s face it the only people making money on old cars and trucks, are the ones who sell parts and those who get paid to work on em. But yes I buy what I like not to invest. Although I’ve always gotten my money out of them when I sell. My truck was an original lonhmgbed, would I buy someone else’s shortened truck? Maybe just depends on the work they did. If it was a beginner then the price would have to be right. Other wise no. SS just means Stock Sucks To me. If I have something I’m going to make it like I want, period.

[mr.precision]

Real/true patina looks cool and always will.
Fake patina looks.... well....fake. I've seen a few and just don't get it.