![]() ![]() The second question: What exactly is patina? The answer is pretty broad because one car guy’s idea of patina is another car guy’s idea of a rust bucket. Weather conditions will also add to the patina equation because temperature extremes also have a big effect on exposed vehicles over the years. Throw in the rigors of hard work on job sites for older trucks and patina will indeed collect on the vehicle over the course of time. The vehicles were not collectible in any sense of the term when they were new-unless the idea of collecting kids and groceries was on the list. The owners had a bright shiny new ride (and fewer miles on their own odometers) when they were first acquainted with the vehicle. The vehicle’s patina should be gained through decades of exposure to the misadventures of owners. The most important question is obvious: How did the old vehicle gain its patina? The best way known to MyStarCollectorCar is the history of the patina in question. ![]() Most car guys probably had to reach for the nearest dictionary when they first heard “patina” used in a sentence, but now they are very familiar with the term as it applies to old vehicles.Ī vintage ride with the patina option has opened up many questions for us at MyStarCollectorCar because of its very nature. Faded factory paint jobs with just enough wear to expose the factory primer also became rock stars in the patina world. The term started to gain steam after TV car shows used patina to describe vehicles that wore their history in their outer metal skin.Įverything from door dents in a supermarket parking lot to the relentless advance of rust became part of the patina movement. So wanting to have something unique, being able to spend your money on the drivetrain and suspension and the carefree notion of driving something that you aren’t worried about dents or dings (the more you give it the more character it has) are the main reasons why the Patina trend is here to stay.Patina is a well-used buzz word in the car hobby. Typically, the horizontal surfaces see more patina than the vertical surfaces. Generally, you can tell how or where a truck had been sitting based on where the rust and patina is concentrated. As those pieces age the coating and metal from those start to bleed off into the paint leaving marks on the already exposed paint. Another way we help the process is by installing after market lights, bedrails, antenna’s, mirrors. In addition to mother nature us humans help when we scratch, dent, or ding the vehicle and expose the metal to the elements thus expediting the patina process. These rusty reds and browns then mix in with the faded original color to get what you call “Patina”. Once that happens you expose the sheet metal below which then begins to oxide and create those rusty reds and browns. The clear coat begins to fade and paint chips or wears off. Typically, when sitting out in the elements and with the wind, snow, rain, etc. Mother nature is the most responsible for how patina takes shape and is born. Most often from sitting in field or by a barn for years in the elements. The actual patina creation comes from a plethora of different things. For people that like to be different and stand apart from the crowd, a Patina car or truck is perfect. So, your truck is unique to you and no one else on the planet will have the same identical truck. Also, every truck is going to rust and fade differently. The more original the body with tons of faded paint, oxidized sheet metal, and even battle wounds like bullet holes and dents and dings the better! The appeal for most is they love the nostalgic look of something that is 60 or 70 years old. A typical Patina truck will wear the same original body but be completely transformed into a modern riding and driving vehicle underneath. The patina trend was born from that and naturally like anything has progressed to what you see today. ![]() As time progressed the rat rod craze took hold with people that didn’t have the money to spend on body and paintjobs but preferred to just build something on their own and focus on function over form. Rat rods have been around since the 50’s when GI’s came back from war, they wanted to build a hot rod inexpensively and focus on going fast not necessarily worried about the looks of the vehicle. Rat rods where cars or trucks pieced together with whatever spare parts you had laying around the garage or stuff you could purchase cheaply in a junkyard. ![]() What is this craze of people leaving their truck or cars rusty and crusty looking? Is it a fad or is it something hear to stay? I am certain the patina trend started with the “rat rod” folks. ![]()
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