Media Patina Appreciation: Show Us Your Rusty Land Cruiser! (13 Viewers)

[Martyt]

Still will look great Arne but I miss the patina; I can still admire Wngrog's however!!

 

[oregon fj]

Still will look great Arne but I miss the patina; I can still admire Wngrog's however!!

Patina is great when it's original paint, or what's left of it. But when the original has been poorly painted over 3-4 times it's no longer good patina, it's just sloppy paint. Time to start over.

FWIW - if mine had looked like it did but the paint was original, I'd never have touched it.

 

[Martyt]

No such things as bad patina--like pizza and something else we all love

 

[middlecalf]

You’ll be allowed back on here in 45 years. See you then.

 

[lowenbrau]

And then this happened. I gues I’ll start my own build thread.

 

[HelloKitty65]

Forgive me, Patina, for I have sinned...

I posted this picture (and a few more) on p

'Love Patina and sin boldly'

 

[HelloKitty65]

Swapped these and an acorn for a PTO part with @Cruiser_Nerd . Kinda miss them.

 

[seth]

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I can't believe this is the first time I'm seeing this picture!!! Amazing.

Just went back through the thread and saw my comment from before. haha. nvm. Nonetheless, still cool to see it there when this is how I see it now...

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Swapped these and an acorn for a PTO part with @Cruiser_Nerd . Kinda miss them.View attachment 1778125

Total patina removal. But I do guarantee they will remain functional on the 25 for longer than I will....

 

[wngrog]

When I put the Warthog together with the donor hood I simply wiped some boiled linseed oil on the exposed rust and rolled out.

I’ve got some downtime doing suspension work so I decided to do the full CLR/BLO treatment on the hood today.

I rattlecaned the fenders so I needed to put a little shine on the hood to match

You can see what before looks like above

Turned out great.

 

[HelloKitty65]

Total patina removal. But I do guarantee they will remain functional on the 25 for longer than I will....View attachment 1779769

"Love Patina and sin boldly"
They look good. And that was fast.

 

[RWBeringer4x4]

@oregon fj - I’m in the same boat, my cruiser doesn’t have “cool” patina like all of @wngrog ‘s do... I really hate to strip off the original paint as my tub is pretty solid, but my top and doors are cancerous. Not sure how to patch them up while maintaining the patina, unless the primer just becomes part of the patina...

My guess is I’ll be banned from this thread in a couple years too...

 

[ClemsonCruiser]

View attachment 1777209 View attachment 1777210 View attachment 1777211 View attachment 1777212 View attachment 1777213 A few more pics.

Very cool love the OEM floor shift you hardly ever see those didn’t realize that is how they came to the Canadian market.

 

[lowenbrau]

Very cool love the OEM floor shift you hardly ever see those didn’t realize that is how they came to the Canadian market.

Very cool love the OEM floor shift you hardly ever see those didn’t realize that is how they came to the Canadian market.

Yep. It seems odd that the Canadian spec rigs were a little different even back then. I think 1965 was the first year for Toyota in Canada. Personally, I have always liked column shifters. I think that the three person front bench seat would be a lot more believable with a clear transmission hump.

 

[dlzadl]

Just went back through the thread and saw my comment from before. haha. nvm. Nonetheless, still cool to see it there when this is how I see it now...

That was actually an improvement from where we found it. The PO was going to make a fertilizer spreader for his fields out of it and a 77 we dragged home to rescue both. It was stored in a lean to open on 3 sides, the 77 was worse than yours tho

 

[Hogan]

Not mine

 

[Hogan]

Ours

 

[lowenbrau]

Gorgeous.

 

[matzell]

I see this everyday at my shop. 1973 f155 and 3spd

 

[65swb45]

I guess I could cross-post a pic of some of the coolest patina in my book