I weather the lettering to match the rest of the junk but people love it and it has got me some business lettering and weathering other patina'd trucks. I do my trucks with them so that they don't look way to out of place at shows like Good Guys. Side note: I have seen elsewhere on the forum that shop logos are way overdone as well. I will never spend money to make one look crappy though, I have had enough of those so I would spend the money on making it shiney if I had it. I have almost walked away from messing with cars/trucks all together because I don't have the funds to build the customs or original type vehicles and it kills me but these rusty patina'd trucks keep me cruising so I will keep buying them. Basicaly I bought a crate engine with a patina'd, rusty body attatched. I paid $950 for it and the only reasons I did that was because it was a 69 GMC ( thats what my first truck was ), it has a coil sprung rear ( easier in my opinion to lower ), and it has a crate engine with about 10,000 miles on it. In a perfect world I would have a fully restored 67 parked next to a cool beater 67 (rust free of course) but if I had to choose, I'd go with a clean beater now a days. The Patina fad is NOTHING new, when I was growing up instead of calling it a patina truck we called it a "beater". I have a 65 mustang that's a show car, it's enough of a pain in the ass to clean and baby sit that. The flat will hide light dings, scratches will blend into the weathered "look" and I'll feel I can use my truck like I want to. I don't want rust, etc, but I want to put a color "primer" coat under a new paint job, and rub it down to look flat and worn. I posted a thread not too long ago about "ruining" my truck. I didn't have to hide it from people or "be careful" with it. I almost think I enjoyed it more than did I did after I painted it. My truck was flat black for almost 10 years. Then come the scratches and knicks and door dings. I used to love pretty trucks until mine was one. I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings, this is just my opinion, but it's time to wake put to the reality that you aren't going to be able to pick and choose original 40 + year old parts I cannot even find a decent Swb fleet bed in any color that is under $1000 ( in relatively dry central Texas)! I saw and ad on the parts forum that is looking for a Swb fleet bed in a particular color. I admit there is no harm in putting and ad out looking for the part in the color needed, but after a year (!) c'mon! It's time to wake up and realize it time to break out the paint gun. I then had the parts painted to match or painted the whole vehicle. I always try to track down original sheetmetal, not giving any notice to color. I have purchased several wrecked trucks and rebuilt them. I have been building old cars and trucks as a hobby for over 20 yrs. Now I have had someone contact me wanting me to sell a from clip off a running driving truck! Then i start seeing WTB ads from people looking for original paint parts. First it seems that I saw a lot of builders spending as much or more on a fake patina paint job (maybe they saw it on "Trucks" like I did).
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