[EDNY]

Been thinking - really like the art of "patina" and considering doing it to my 33. 

Anyone have any articles related to creating patina?  Thinking about a brown base with a flat or semi gloss light color on top like white, blue, green etc then scrubbing down to the brown.  Also considering faux signage on the doors to scrub down to.

Ed

[trbomax]

  You could shoot the whole car with red oxide primer.Then use a plastic bag dipped in the accent color(s),blot it on another surface untill you get the texture you like,then work on the car with it.
 My wife did a desk that way 40 yrs ago,it still looks good and is in her shop.

[sixball]

Fix it up nice and pretty and drive the piss out of. Patina happens when something is used and ages that other stuff is like a young pretty woman getting surgery to make her old and ugly. Be patient.

[trbomax]

Fix it up nice and pretty and drive the piss out of. Patina happens when something is used and ages that other stuff is like a young pretty woman getting surgery to make her old and ugly. Be patient.

I agree wth this.Dont refinish when you build it either. I was going to completely refinish my 28 but have since decided that the lacquer I layed on it 50 yrs ago will be just fine , thats the "patina". On the other hand,its your car,do what ever makes YOU happy!

[themoose]

Ed....Forgive me but I'm not into patina. Worked too hard on the rest of the car to want to make it look like I just hauled it out of the barn and popped in a battery and some gas. I like the shiny stuff... I'm with sixball.

Moose

[ghost28]

I like the patiina look even on a newer build if it's done right. I have seen it done with a brown or grey base and then lay on a thin coat of black. After it cures with a light paper sand down the top coat so it starts to break through to the base coat in certain areas. once you are happy shoot some clear over it. I can look pretty good.

[cocobolo]

Ed, it seems that patina is losing out to new, although that wasn't your question.

There have been articles on DIY patina over the past few years...but with my less than spectacular memory I cannot remember which mags they were in.  I do know that a couple of the guys on the Canadian Rodder site have added patina to their cars, but the problem I have with them is that they look like exactly what they are.  Old cars with a new build and artificial patina.  Somehow it just doesn't come across right.

So my vote will go with the nice shiny finish.  I have to agree with the moose.  A whole lot of work to build it as perfectly as one can, and then try to make it look ancient with some fakery falls a bit short.

But, as always, it's whatever turns your crank. 

[3WBill]

 Good luck with the patina trial.  A few of the guys want me to leave  the rust and bullet holes in my coupe but it aint happening. Drove rust buckets and clunkers  most  of my life , the wife always got the "nice " car so I want my ride to be as pretty as I can make her.
3WBill

[EDNY]

You guys talked me into it   I already have a shinny 34 Chevy 3 window coupe...want something different for the 33.  Really not looking for bullet holes or rust...just one that looks it just came out of the barn "solid" with no rust but worn out paint with some wear through spots - if that makes sense.

[logride]

I like the idea I bought this car off the am tradeo show. Raccoons were living in it.

I will never paint it.

[TFoch]

I don't really have an opinion one way or another.  I did have bullet holes in mine but chose to fix them.  I want mine to be nice and shiny some day.  I have seen some shop trucks done with patina that looked good.  If it's something you like go for it.  Keep us up to date.
Tom

[cocobolo]

You guys talked me into it   I already have a shinny 34 Chevy 3 window coupe...want something different for the 33.  Really not looking for bullet holes or rust...just one that looks it just came out of the barn "solid" with no rust but worn out paint with some wear through spots - if that makes sense.

That definitely makes sense to me.  My '35 is exactly as you describe.  50+ years in a barn, most of the paint is intact and some of it would probably even polish up nicely.  No bullet holes, unless you count the gas tank which looks exactly like it has been hit with a shotgun blast.  And for all we know, it may have been.

[sixball]

One of the best things about this site is that we don't have one narrow set of rules that every thing has to fit into. In fact most of what I see here is not what I would do but that is not to say it isn't great stuff. What would I learn from someone who does everything like I do? There just are not enough solid barn finds to go around so if that's what you want you'll probably have to build one.

[EDNY]

One of the best things about this site is that we don't have one narrow set of rules that every thing has to fit into. In fact most of what I see here is not what I would do but that is not to say it isn't great stuff. What would I learn from someone who does everything like I do? There just are not enough solid barn finds to go around so if that's what you want you'll probably have to build one.

Heck..I just don't want to get banned from the forum!

[sixball]

Now if you sand all the way through a fiberglass body to make it look rusted out I'm coming after you, and you know how much pull I have around here.