Has the "patina" trend caught on here yet?

The Samba had a few posts about my body shop in Tijuana
Los Panchos

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=439586&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0


I'm a general car/restoration guy myself and the VW sites and porsche/bmw sites are pretty thorough in their restos.