When car is too good to restore & repaint, but keep patina
Discussion
It's a fine and difficult balance, but any general tips and hints, when you have a solid rust free car, that's too good to restore and repaint, and has good patina.........but you inevitably need to carry out ongoing repairs maint etc.....
Eg. In just putting the engine back in after a nut n bolt rebuild and upgrade. The engine bay is original paint, with scratches and scuffs, but no rust.... So I'm not going to repaint over all the character, but need to clean it all up beforehand.
But in general renewing bits is a difficult balence, not to introduce too much 'new shiney' stuff.
It would almost feel easier to have a shiney fresh restored car, then new and upgraded bits would stick out like a sore thumb.
Maintaining Patina is a b
h............but Patina rules.
Eg. In just putting the engine back in after a nut n bolt rebuild and upgrade. The engine bay is original paint, with scratches and scuffs, but no rust.... So I'm not going to repaint over all the character, but need to clean it all up beforehand.
But in general renewing bits is a difficult balence, not to introduce too much 'new shiney' stuff.
It would almost feel easier to have a shiney fresh restored car, then new and upgraded bits would stick out like a sore thumb.
Maintaining Patina is a b
h............but Patina rules.What's one mans Patina is another mans rusty shed.
What's one mans Patina is another mans shiney garaged corvette.
I don't want this to get caught up in the "what is Patina?" Circle........
...with the exception of this urban dictionary interpretation :
PATINA The term that antique appraisers and collectors use to describe rust or age on an old object to try to increase its value.
....Which we know is out there, but that's not the topic here.
As the landy story goes, it's about maintaining a car that has visual history, smell & charactor.
Mine...... It's an Alfa 1300 GT junior 1971......... Supplied to a teacher new in Nairobi, she then moved to Greece and drove it there, it then moved to the UK. Still on its original paint...polished through to the metal on the wing creases! Amongst many other little charactor pieces (like the aftermarket shelf speakers she had installed in the late 70s...... Now not wired to anything).
I wanted to get ideas, pointers, and guidance on how to maintain charactor, without f&cking it up.
What's one mans Patina is another mans shiney garaged corvette.
I don't want this to get caught up in the "what is Patina?" Circle........
...with the exception of this urban dictionary interpretation :
PATINA The term that antique appraisers and collectors use to describe rust or age on an old object to try to increase its value.
....Which we know is out there, but that's not the topic here.
As the landy story goes, it's about maintaining a car that has visual history, smell & charactor.
Mine...... It's an Alfa 1300 GT junior 1971......... Supplied to a teacher new in Nairobi, she then moved to Greece and drove it there, it then moved to the UK. Still on its original paint...polished through to the metal on the wing creases! Amongst many other little charactor pieces (like the aftermarket shelf speakers she had installed in the late 70s...... Now not wired to anything).
I wanted to get ideas, pointers, and guidance on how to maintain charactor, without f&cking it up.
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