What is wrong with finishing our trucks?

[Robert Haas]

I am new here so this is probably not sounding all that tolerant but it sure seems that if you take a 50 year old truck and put it on the road with 50 years of abuse showing on it. Rust and rot poking through the oxidized paint. General overall condition of stuff still in the wrecking yards. Yet these trucks seem to receive all kinds of adoration from the regulars on here.

Is this a forum of owners that actually want to see these trucks rescued from the crushers and father time, or is it more of a rat rod starter set.

I love a patina on a mechanically sound truck.

Finding knowledgeable folks that can not only identify and recognize some of the rarer models would leave most people thinking some real love exist here. If that is the case do you see a truck that is begging to be finished left to continue its decay a sad thing?

Every day more of these grand designs are becoming scrap metal.