Please don't anyone take offense, but how's about another way of looking at this.
The only person that really has to be happy with this is "YOU". but that all really depends on who you are trying to impress. Speaking on a personal level I am only trying to impress "ME". If others think my stuff is cool that is cool but if they don't it doesn't really matter to me. I'm old and almost worn out these last 60 years have been damn hard, and I'have learned that what I think is what matters to me.
I think your patina, fake or not, is cool, damn cool as a matter of fact. But you shouldn't really care what I think.
I went to a local cruise night last month. Took my little A Bone that impress's the hell outta me. Parked off to the side as I didn't know a single dude there as I was the new guy in town. Hadn't been setting there 15 min when some lame dude walks up and said. " WE dont usually allow cars under construction here". Now boys and girls there were a couple of things in his statement that bothered me a might. For one the boy was alone so there didn't appear to be a "WE". The "ALLOW" word kinda made the hairs on the back of my neck raise up as well. I in my most polite voice informed him that him and who ever else the "WE" were had a problem. The first part of that problem was just how many of those "WE'S" it was going to take to get me and that Model A out of that PUBLIC parking lot. And #2 Was the damn thing is finished and not under construction. You see my Model A has some of that Patina thing going on. Well he must have been a married man and loved his family, because he left and didn't come back. I had, had enough of these furr balls but on that night me and that little Model A were the last car to leave. I obviously didn't impress him very much.
Sorry about the length of this post, and I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Tour old Ford is cool, but what do you care? RIGHT!!
My Model A, I would never ask it to leave......
