Also, more people will approach you and ask what your plans are. At least it looks like you're trying to fix it up and on the road to a nice paint job. Also, the "Fake Patina" to me is also cheaping out on a quality job, I mean, seriously! I do enjoy the "Work in progress" look. I like the survivor part of original paint, however I don't like the attempt to keep it by preserving it under a coat of flat clear. That bein said, an "Original" patina is to me one of the coolest looks because the paint and all it's flaws tell a story to someone that's been pounding dents and painting cars for 40 years. My 2 cents, "Patina" is thrown around a lot these days. That may take some more saving before I can have it done. The third car, a '64.5 convertible Mustang deserves better, I'll be paying for a professional to do the body and paint to make it look like new. Then I'll hire someone to pinstripe accents on it to make sure it looks finished as a "patina" style. My plan is to wet sand all of the clear coat off and sand through the color in a few places into the primer. I've been driving it and getting rock chips and the clear coat is peeling in a couple of places. ![]() If I wet sand the orange peel out the swirls will show more. I attempted metallic base/clear and it came out swirled and heavy orange peeled. My '58 Bug I painted in my garage with a Harbor Freight paint gun, my first paint job. My plan is to have the passenger side body worked and painted to match the original paint on the drivers side as much as possible that way I'll still retain about 70% original paint. The left side looks good with a few door dings and a couple of scratches, the right side has dents and scrapes from bumper to bumper (thanks grampa ). That being said, my ElCo is all original paint (and dents). I like nice shiny paint most of the time. Awards should be given first to these talented owners. I enjoy going to shows and get togethers where these talented, hard working people are recognized for THEIR work, not just someone like me that has to have much of it done. Here in Region 6, Florida, we have the good fortune to have several members such as 87next2last1, Welder5, Hot Camino and 464elky that are such good examples that not only do their own work but are responsible for so many of us being able to enjoy our rides. As you mentioned the rides in Gaiesville were all so cool and it is particularly nice when people are so interested in someone`s ride that the owner worked on and donated some blood to build. There are so many things that inter into it such as the condition of the car, what can/should you spend, how car is used and were it is parked. I say yes and it is what matters to you that is most important, whether it is a show quality paint job or one you shot in your backyard that you are proud of. As always thanks for voting in the poll and the great responses! So this months question is does it really matter? Obvious a car with a 10 grand paint job will be worth more, look great, shines nice ! But on the other hand at last years Gainesville meet one of our regulars members brought his project Elky that he has been swapping in an LS motor on, the body is a work in progress but I think he had more people checking his out then some of the beautiful restored cars. So back to the poll question, nice paint is nice, great paint is better, patina is cool? and well primer is just what primer is! I always feel crappy that my Elky's paint is so crappy and as I looked through pictures on this months new member posts on FB there are some in primer, some old patina, some nice factory paint, some custom paint. It came out pretty good for all the bad things I have heard about paint shop paint. ![]() They used paint shop paint products for the outside, concrete gray and gloss black. ![]() So now 10 years later they are painting the whole car for the 2021 SEMA show. They painted 1/2 the car, inside and out with Dupli-color paints. So I have pretty much moved all of my car shows watching to Youtube, this week a Dupli-color series that was on my suggestion list to watch and it was the 78' Elky project from 10 years ago.
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