How would you do it?

wjytexas

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I have this fender off a 1958 Ford 641 that unfortunately is rusted out along the lower bead. My plan is to use it as yard art. Leave it alone? Etch the rust and clear coat? Take it down to bare metal and repaint/restore? I know there are a couple of rust lovers on here!
 
Make a bench made from 2 or 3 metal seats from a Ford of the era and use the fender as a backrest....no paint needed...would be unique and practical outside.

Ben
 
What to do with it would be a personal choice thing. My feelings is a whole tractor would make yard art, a single fender would just look like junk. I would be inclined to sell it to someone that could restore it and put it on a tractor.
 
In my humble opinion...

Leave it just as it is - set it someplace and plant some pretty greenery or flowers by it. Rust and green always look good together. :)

Lily at the edge of my rust garden... posted in Tales this morning.

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(quoted from post at 13:51:59 07/27/20) In my humble opinion...

Leave it just as it is - set it someplace and plant some pretty greenery or flowers by it. Rust and green always look good together. :)

Lily at the edge of my rust garden... posted in Tales this morning.

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ilies are pretty and I like the "re-capped" "iron tires", too!
 
(quoted from post at 08:19:47 07/27/20) paint it to look like a peacock?

I like the peacock idea if you paint it. If you paint it you will want it very unique and artistic. Otherwise do like Sweetfeet and leave it rusty but plant some kind of bright taller perennial flower in front of it. Day lilies are popular now.
 
I was looking for your suggestion. Maybe now that I have the back yard fence high enough to keep deer out I can do something like that.
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LOL! Doggone deer found the dill in my steel wheeled garden wagon (the perfect height for dining deer)... they ate most of it.

Thankfully they did not find my washtub of dill... which I now spray with Electric Fence.

This is the first year that deer have bothered my unique garden "containers". :(

I think some flowers are LESS apt to be eaten. I need to find out what they are... because it royally ticks me off. Grrrr!
 
centash, kinda like this????from a little local grocery from back home.




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Bench in bottom right of photo.
 
I am not a rust person, if it were mine I take it down to bare metal, repaint and detail the ford and then in the middle put my house number or farm name.
 
It might end up on my shop wall as-is. Possibly cut out a center hole for one of those cheap battery-powered wall clocks and tightly fit the clock in the opening. Wouldn't end up outside unless a tractor were attached to it.
Gerrit
 
Regarding deer: I plant marigolds from seed every year. The deer never bother them, and they (the marigolds, not the deer) provide a wonderful fall-colors show up until frost. The deer also don't eat peonies, which are pretty much care-free after getting established and put on an amazing late-spring show of maroons and reds and pinks and whites and mixes of white and pink. I've had good luck with cannas, too, which make a dramatic statement at maturity with their 6-foot-tall leaves and brilliant red blooms (but their tubers need to be dug up and stored inside each fall in colder climates).
 
rossow mn,

Thanks, good ideas. I will plant more marigolds next summer.

Mom always had peonies on the farm where I grew up and they are beautiful. I might consider those, but am unsure if they can handle the wind we get - our building site is very open to the wind.

Cannot do cannas, though they are beautiful. BUT I am not dedicated enough to dig them up in the fall.
 

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