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[Ricko1966]

Ohhh sometimes a patina vehicle is beautiful. This thing looks better than 1000s of repaints I've seen.

 

[RecklessWOT]

This is one example of why you would want to leave it "crappy". Painted stuff is so generic and boring 95% of the time. It took Mother Nature and the truck 80 years to look like this. This one has some human help as well.

Also I'm not against fresh paint and being clean. Body work is stupid expensive and takes a long time, then you have to worry about keeping them nice. I have a hard time with my clean 90's chevys and I get real upset when they get damaged in any way, I couldnt imagine a restored older vehicle. I had a paintless door ding and was quoted at $1200 dollars. Thats one ding?!!

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While I respect everyone's taste is different, I personally wouldn't be seen in that thing. Looks like tetnus and mold on wheels. You want unique, get some custom airbrushing or pin-striping or something. Hell, it took 40 years for my front porch to rot off my house, I didn't encase the nasty looking wood in epoxy and say "damn, look at that unique porch that nature perfected over time", I ripped that sh!t off and built a new one out of fresh wood, and my house looks good again.

And really, paintless dent removal for $1200??? There is a mobile paintless dent removal guy in my town that did my whole car for $250. There were 5 door dings, a dent in the fender, and a spot on the roof where I may or may not have forgotten there was a storage tote sitting up there when I sent it up n the lift... lol. I feel even like a Dent Wizard franchise wouldn't charge half that much

Ohhh sometimes a patina vehicle is beautiful. This thing looks better than 1000s of repaints I've seen.

Once again, to each his own. I'm glad you really like your truck, to me personally I would leave that in the garage until I could afford a real paibtjob. Sorry you spent money on that, it looks septic. I bought my truck in the desert, a lot of the paint was sunburnt off like that (didn't look 100% manmade like yours, it was natural and followed the body lines and where the sun was hitting etc), a couple people told me "you should clearcoat it bro, looks sick like that". I can honestly say I have never done anything to a vehicle that made me feel so relieved as the day when I finally decided to sand down and rattlecan the thing as close to factory color as I could. Still don't have the money for a proper repaint, but man I can't wait till I do.

Maybe it's a regional thing- you live in an place where rust has to be recreated, up here an 8 year old truck will rot in half if you're not careful to wash the salt off it on a regular basis in winter. Having a rusty looking car is just a part of life when you're a broke penniless loser who can't afford anything nice. Being a car guy but being forced to drive around rusty junk my whole life because I couldn't afford anything shiny, dude it hurt. As soon as I could afford my first shiny vehicle I spent so much time and effort polishing that damn thing, and I still own it to this day because it's sentimental to me.

 

[PrairieDrifter]

While I respect everyone's taste is different, I personally wouldn't be seen in that thing. Looks like tetnus and mold on wheels. You want unique, get some custom airbrushing or pin-striping or something. Hell, it took 40 years for my front porch to rot off my house, I didn't encase the nasty looking wood in epoxy and say "damn, look at that unique porch that nature perfected over time", I ripped that sh!t off and built a new one out of fresh wood, and my house looks good again.

If your front porch was a perfectly good 80 year old log cabin, would you rip that out and replace it too? i definitely wouldn't throw some junky store bought paint or stain or whatever, on it if it's survived 80 years like it is. I appreciate the metaphor, but the accuracy is not there. It's apples and oranges really.

You wanna get some spray tan for gram gram too? Air brushing and pinstripes are 100% not unique. Pretty much the opposite, I've seen 2015 dodges with pinstripes lolol. I'm also not an 80's van driving sleazeball, with a huge mural all across my truck, I don't wear velour track suits and chains.

If I wanted a shiny new truck I would have dumped a huge payment on it and keep it in the garage and never use it. But that's the absolute opposite of what I want. It's not all about being unique, it's about respecting the time and peoples hands that touched it and the stories that go with each mark, all of the storms and weather it's been through. It's only gonna be like that one time, once you repaint it's gone.

Also most people wouldn't drop 20 grand on a paint job and wait multiple years. To just let it sit and collect dust or get beat up again. We drive old trucks because they're old trucks, not because they're all shiny and feel brand new.

 

[mxer147]

Is that the original Sanford & Son truck? You got love the character that truck oozes! Not so sure it’s ready for a road trip though.

 

[RecklessWOT]

If your front porch was a perfectly good 80 year old log cabin, would you rip that out and replace it too? i definitely wouldn't throw some junky store bought paint or stain or whatever, on it if it's survived 80 years like it is. I appreciate the metaphor, but the accuracy is not there. It's apples and oranges really.

You wanna get some spray tan for gram gram too? Air brushing and pinstripes are 100% not unique. Pretty much the opposite, I've seen 2015 dodges with pinstripes lolol. I'm also not an 80's van driving sleazeball, with a huge mural all across my truck, I don't wear velour track suits and chains.

If I wanted a shiny new truck I would have dumped a huge payment on it and keep it in the garage and never use it. But that's the absolute opposite of what I want. It's not all about being unique, it's about respecting the time and peoples hands that touched it and the stories that go with each mark, all of the storms and weather it's been through. It's only gonna be like that one time, once you repaint it's gone.

Also most people wouldn't drop 20 grand on a paint job and wait multiple years. To just let it sit and collect dust or get beat up again. We drive old trucks because they're old trucks, not because they're all shiny and feel brand new.

I said nothing about 20 grand, I'd be fine with a $2k Maaco job. I just want the darn thing to not look rusty.

And if my 80 year old log cabin was in great shape, I would leave it alone. But if it was literally rotting and oxidizing, yeah I would treat it. Man, if I owned the statue of liberty I would buff that green corroded copper back to shiny orange metal then oil it to prevent it from getting tarnished again.

 

[bucket]

Personally, I liked the "patina" look before it was trendy. The weathered old paint told a story of everything that vehicle has seen in it's lifetime. Like a well worn and comfortable pair of boots.

Now, all the folks that go to great lengths and expense to simulate real "patina"... yeah, I don't understand that. May as well put the same effort into making it look nice. But, to each their own.

 

[Frankenchevy]

I'd be fine with a $2k Maaco job

I don’t know if you’ve priced maaco lately, but they don’t have a $2000 paint job. Not in my region anyway. I asked what a single stage job would cost if I did all the prep and masking. IIRC, it was $3800 or so.

I like real patina, but fake is easy to spot. It’s okay to enhance it a bit by exaggerating thin spots with a bit of Brillo pad, I guess.

My favorite is an original paint car that is worn in, but no major dents or rust. It’s honest and a survivor. My Buddies c10 is a good example. He got it for free and talked about doing the paint and body. After he did the interior, I told him it looked just about perfect. He grew to agree and has since left it alone.

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[Bennyt]

I'd go white.

My '63 Nova is black and it looks incredible. Unfortunately, I can't enjoy it as it constantly has to be kept clean, scratches if you breathe on it and shows every speck of dust.

I can't imagine owning a black vehicle that actually gets driven and used.

 

[ali_c20]

White.

 

[Joshua Keith]

White for sure.

 

[PrairieDrifter]

Is that the original Sanford & Son truck? You got love the character that truck oozes! Not so sure it’s ready for a road trip though.

Nope, but could be the gm equivalent! lol I believe that truck was a ford.

Not ready for a road trip in the least, but it's next in line.

 

[PrairieDrifter]

I said nothing about 20 grand, I'd be fine with a $2k Maaco job. I just want the darn thing to not look rusty.

And if my 80 year old log cabin was in great shape, I would leave it alone. But if it was literally rotting and oxidizing, yeah I would treat it. Man, if I owned the statue of liberty I would buff that green corroded copper back to shiny orange metal then oil it to prevent it from getting tarnished again.

I said $20 grand because if you dont know how to do body and paint, you probably shouldn't. So after labor and materials, easy $20,000.

The thing is the older trucks usually don't rot away, the only rust my 48 has is some floorboard rust from being covered in all kinds of animal **** from sitting outside for 50 years. How many old shells have you seen that don't have any rot? Anything older than 50's around here usually just has surface rust, unless it was just packed full of mud, and that's if the paint is even gone. That old paint is incredible.

That being said, I agree on the statue of liberty. But statue of Liberty would still show wear and age even if upkept. Just like on my 79, someday when the truck gets bad enough I will have to paint it. But I'll damn sure hate the day I have to strip stuff like this off my grandpas truck.

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[Gene76]

This is what all orange and whitish top looks like

 

[RecklessWOT]

I don’t know if you’ve priced maaco lately, but they don’t have a $2000 paint job. Not in my region anyway. I asked what a single stage job would cost if I did all the prep and masking. IIRC, it was $3800 or so.

I like real patina, but fake is easy to spot. It’s okay to enhance it a bit by exaggerating thin spots with a bit of Brillo pad, I guess.

My favorite is an original paint car that is worn in, but no major dents or rust. It’s honest and a survivor. My Buddies c10 is a good example. He got it for free and talked about doing the paint and body. After he did the interior, I told him it looked just about perfect. He grew to agree and has since left it alone.

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nothing wrong with that truck at all, looks good to me. I just don't like it when the thing is 50% surface rust, 10% okay paint, and 40% peeling flaky garbage paint that someone cleared over because it's "nature's work of art". No it's just old and ugly. This C10 is a good looking old truck that just shows its age in a few spots. It's not crappy by any means.

As far as the Maaco pricing, do they not still do the president's day sale out by you? I'm not even that old but I remember when that sale was like $200-300... No way the cheapest thing they do is almost 4 grand if you do all the prep work. I haven't looked lately and I know inflation is insane now, but seriously it can't actually have gotten THAT expensive for a bottom of the barrel paint job, really?

 

[bucket]

nothing wrong with that truck at all, looks good to me. I just don't like it when the thing is 50% surface rust, 10% okay paint, and 40% peeling flaky garbage paint that someone cleared over because it's "nature's work of art". No it's just old and ugly. This C10 is a good looking old truck that just shows its age in a few spots. It's not crappy by any means.

As far as the Maaco pricing, do they not still do the president's day sale out by you? I'm not even that old but I remember when that sale was like $200-300... No way the cheapest thing they do is almost 4 grand if you do all the prep work. I haven't looked lately and I know inflation is insane now, but seriously it can't actually have gotten THAT expensive for a bottom of the barrel paint job, really?

Back in '98, I got an estimate from Maaco to paint my Impala. There was a few upgrades like jambs and clearcoat, but the estimate was a tad over 2k even back then. Glad I didn't have them do it.