Here is some cool patina on my '48 F-1........



And the '49 F-2 parts truck.....

 

I hope this thread is still going, I remembered seeing it awhile back, but had a heck of a time finding it.

Here are a few pics of it now that I wet sanded off the surface rust and put a coat of liquid wax over it.











I was disappointed in the floor. Wire brushed the dirt off down to clean wood, and put a coat of polyurathane over it, but it was so dry it just absorbed it and turned dark.

 

Nice looking truck. Looks like a real worker.

 

Good truck and thanks for the idea of old truck farm boxes in the back! Most try a old bike, the boxes are a nice touch.

 

Okay gang, here's mine;

Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums - captradiator's Album: '56 F-350/Wrecker - Picture

 

Here she is when I got her









Shes not pretty but she's my gal!

 

Who says she aint pretty? Looks pretty darn good to me....LOL John

 

Like John says she is pretty and has lots of potential

 

here is a black and white pic from Nov 1977. It is grainy because it came form a newspaper pic. I bought the truck in June '77:


Here is a pic from Dec 1997:


This is a pic from 1998 before it went to the body shop. A lot of patina or rust:


I miss the truck with the old patina... I did not have to wash it... now I have to wash it or it looks bad. In the rust belt of PA when we get patina we also get total rust out and cancer. After sand blasting a lot of my sheet metal looked like swiss cheese...

 

And here is a picture taken in Dec 2007. It has more scratches and nicks here and there, and there is some rust bubbling up in the rear fenders and above the right headlight but no patina...

 

Always liked your truck and that last picture

 

Well here is mine.
Keeping it patina might save me money, but I'm planning on returning it to the original color some day.

 

Hi Joe, what does it say on the door kind of hard to make out

 

Thanks!

I guess the ideal situation would be to have a patina truck in which dirt won't show and you can use it like a truck and a truck with a nice paint job...

 

Here is a little better picture of it.
It say
E. M. Eckert
Chillicothe MO
12000 lbs
This was my wife's grandpa's truck with his name and town. I have been asked by several family members if I'm going to paint the lettering back on. Actually it's more like "You are going to paint that back, right?" Yeah, I probably will. It makes it a little less my own, but keeps the family history.

You know it just hit me. The letters are the same color as the truck. You can see them because of the rust....were they stickers or something??? Maybe painted another color and that color finally faded off and left the original color without the rust...black maybe...