11/23/2023 0 Comments Modern patina car![]() Looks like a rusty truck that was sprayed with clear coat.That makes it a fairly good deal. The owner thinks it beats sliced bread and I haven't disagreed to his face. ![]() Looked worse than when they started.Ĭovered in surface rust, sprayed with clear coat. Looks interesting, honest.Ĭovered in surface rust, poorly prepped and a cheap enamel applied. One of the nicest transformations I recall.Ĭovered in surface rust, left as-is. Properly sanded down, prepped and a decent single stage urethane enamel applied. I think of 4 old trucks in my end of the county:Ĭovered in surface rust. Spraying clearcoat over rust, or creating artificial wear & tear, are something else. I know what a vehicle with patina should look like: it should look honest, like a green 69 Chevy step-side that has been stored under a carport since new, or someone's Aunt Bertha's never-restored, never painted '37 Plymouth. I tend to have my tongue in my cheek when I say it. I have casually used the term "patina" to describe some of my own cars, but never in trying to sell one. Patina= a fine old, worn car that is at a point whether it can either be forgotten and go back to earth or has the potential to be a candidate for restoration. Or I refurbished the engine so I could drive it to work. Like= I refurbished this car so I can drive it safely. (Preferably something better than "Hack Job" □) Please let me know if there's a better word out there for what I'm trying to say. I call this "refurbishment" so that people won't think I'm trying claim that I took a basket case and turned it into a nice car, with an engine rebuild, new rear end, and so on. In other words, I've never had the resources or abilities to restore a car, but I have made one or two of my old running and operational cars into much more presentable drivers. However, I've always used the word "refurbish" out of respect (and admiration) for those who actually restore cars. □ Always a pleasure and educational to read his perspectives. Walt's opinions carry a lot of weight with me. I wish I had a dollar for every time in high school a Jesuit growled at us, "Young man, define your terms!" So we all have assumptions about what a word means, and it is proper to establish that the other party has the same definition. Thank you, Wayne! How many of us have sought to buy an advertised as "rebuilt" engine that, when receipts (if they exist) are examined, merely had a valve job? Then if they have questions about the work I did? I can go into further detail. I don't want to tell someone "an engine has been rebuilt" and have them expecting a full re-machining and all new parts no matter how much time and effort I spent to make certain all the pieces I used were as good as new would be. ![]() Maybe it is because I am also on the far West coast, that "refurbished" merely means a somewhat lesser extent of restored or rebuilt? I consider a lot of the work I do as "refurbish", or in the case of engine repair I use "reworked" in place of "rebuilt" to denote the lesser level of repair or restoration. In discussions about linguistics, a favorite jest of mine is to toss out "Colloquialisms. Maybe there ies an East coast and West coast difference? □ □ To me refurbish will always be a word that stands for restore. One word, a word with real MEANING, that I truly dislike using, is "hate".Īnd like "barn finds"? Patina has become a buzzword.Īt times we all have our opinions on how to possibly define a word. Soon, society itself may become meaningless if these trends continue for too long. When too many people use words in wrong ways? Language itself begins to have no meaning. The ultimate foundation of society IS its language! Many anthropologists say that 'language' is the single most important invention of all human history! When so many people begin altering their language usage for kicks, giggles, and self gratification? The entirety of society will pay a big price for that instability. All the while they are oblivious to the erosion of language. They pride themselves on "their superiority" by adopting new uses for old words faster than those slow minded of us that believe words really should have meaning. ![]() Recent generations, unfortunately for all, have overly embraced the change. All the while, it still needs to remain mostly stable. Language, MUST change in order to service the needs and situations at hand. The dichotomy of linguistics, is that language, to mean something, MUST remain somewhat stable over many generations. Linguistics is a fascinating subject of study! ![]()
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