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eightbanger · 05-01-2008, 01:10 PM

For my money all the best looking Patina Trucks are blue or green (as you can see from the pics) and that's because those are the colors that naturally ocur in metals like copper when exposed to the weather...it turns green, and of course the color of copper is like rust. It just works so much better with those colors, someone was trying to do it with a black truck here on the board and it just looked like it was crying out for a paint job.

Bapst & Hot Rod City are beatutiful examples of this. IMO.

05-01-2008, 01:10 PM	#23
eightbanger 454 MAKES IT ROAR Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Essex, U.K Posts: 2,701	Re: Patina, shop logo'd, rusty trucks? For my money all the best looking Patina Trucks are blue or green (as you can see from the pics) and that's because those are the colors that naturally ocur in metals like copper when exposed to the weather...it turns green, and of course the color of copper is like rust. It just works so much better with those colors, someone was trying to do it with a black truck here on the board and it just looked like it was crying out for a paint job. Bapst & Hot Rod City are beatutiful examples of this. IMO. __________________ Nigel. An American living in a British body. 1971 Chevy Cheyenne 10 454 "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty" - Thomas Jefferson No more pain. 03.12.60 -- 12.28.10 http://www.youtube.com/Eightbanger Last edited by eightbanger; 05-01-2008 at 01:11 PM.