Slick 60's

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great looking truck!, do you call her Pocahontas?

I would never paint that truck! Well, I would pai t the underside and engine compartment....

Please don't get any spray paint near the inside, or outside of that truck! its way to nice for that!

My son with a pressure washer (watch out!)

Im not planning on messing with the original paint, but I do need ideas on how to neutralize the surface rust.

Do they make a flat or satin clearcoat?

ospho?

Anything that ntralizes the rust will ruin the paint. You will get runs and stuff that will look horible. Just keep it dry and it will last for many more years like that.

I have the same problem with the green truck!, what about fish oil?, would that help?

Alan Mclennan wrote:I have the same problem with the green truck!, what about fish oil?, would that help?

Sure but you'll smell like fish all the time!

I checked with the "Google" and several companies offer a matte finish clear coat.
But, it's taken 40+ years to get that far how much more is it going to rust over the next few?

Gritsngumbo wrote:I checked with the "Google" and several companies offer a matte finish clear coat.
But, it's taken 40+ years to get that far how much more is it going to rust over the next few?

Haven't times changed, when I was a kid there was no such thing as patina, there was shiny and beautiful and old and ugly and rust was an evil enemy, you avoided anything with rust and if you had something with rust you battled it with all guns loaded. It's amazing now that the rusted patina look is not only accepted it's prefered in a lot of cases and I am one of those that loves the look. Just found it interesting and I'm sure it's been discussed before but it sure is a viewpoint I thought I'd never see.

Times may have changed but I havent still like to see them with nice shiny paint on them.

patina holds up pretty well. added benefit is you can enjoy the car shows instead of polishing it.

I'm a "shiny paint" fan also, but am trying hard to keep my F250 in it's current "natural state". Guess it's not really patina, but more like just faded paint. Plan to have "Slick Shop" door signs made using an antique font and off white color.

Ripped out the farm bumper, found an wire octopus underneath.

My carb.. before and after... A friend of mine rebuilt it for free! The accel pump was leaking really bad (onto the exhaust manifold)

Are the pictures I'm posting too big?

Alan Mclennan - LOL Pocahontas

Nope, keep 'em coming!