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This is one product available http://www.ugp.com.au/UGP_Rust%20Paint.html but I guess you could strip and throw on any oxidising chemical or even lemon/lime juice. There are other "rust effect" paints available. I saw one a wee side article about this German stuff in a recent Performance VW (640bhp corrado, immaculate brown mk2 gti and an inline turbo jetta). Thrown it out but I think it was £30-40 a litre. It gave you quite furry effect and could be applied to metal and plastic.
Getting a nice patina like that chopper could be a lot harder. I've done it to a few BMX's / forks and instead of laquering over, stripping and then wipping over regularly with wd40 / 3in1 works really well (not nearly as good as that bike though). I reckon spraying over the bare metal with a silicone dashboard polish would also work well as its what I've used on sandblasted glass to stop fingerprints adhereing to it.
Incedentally shinya Kimura was also mentioned in the same magazine as listed above in reference to a cool mk3 golf someone had "antiqued"
This looks banging!