Re: Patina or Paint?
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I have been involved with old ford trucks now for 48 years. I have never ever paid so much as a dollar for anyone to paint one. If the 'patina' wasn't good I pulled out a brush and the flattest paint I could find and painted it. I came on tonight to say that I don't feel the 'patina thing' will ever pass. Not unless you think LL Bean and Eddie Bauer and Target and Walmart wil ever stop selling 'broken in' jeans, pre-washed, whatever. Ever watch the 'Antiques Road Show'????? "If your mother hadn't ground off the original finish that we see under the seat of this circa 1772 Conneticutt Valley Govener Wobbley Chair and applied 6 coats of varathane, it would have been worth 30,000.00. As is we would venture to say 6,000.00 tops ."
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Owner/Operator of 'Jailbar Ranch' on the side of Mt. Pickett. Current stable consists of 1946 1/2 ton pickup turned woodie wagon with FH V8, 1947 Tonner Pickup (red) mostly stock with exception of a cummins 6at turbo diesel, 1946 Tonner Pickup (green) with 226 cu in 6 cyl flathead, 1979 Toyota landcruiser wagon, completely encased in 1947 Ford Jailbar sheet metal. Ok, cornbinder rear fenders..... 'Rusty ol' floorboards, hot on their feet' (Alan Jackson)
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