It's time to wrap up the bodywork and paint story with the actual painting of the car. If you've been keeping track of the story up to this point, you know that all the bodywork and preparation was ...

Ceramic coating adds an extra layer between your car's paint and the elements. While it's popular, it does have limitations.

Back in the day, automotive spray paint was thought of as something only hack-jobbers would use on their Sanford & Son trucks. Today, improvements in aerosols, paint materials, and pigments make spray ...

We have all seen the commercials. A guy walks into a junkyard and finds a weathered-looking car with severely faded paint, and with one swipe of the “miracle” product, it suddenly looks factory-new ...

Chase Bierenkoven is a gearhead and writer based in Denver, Colorado. As the family lore goes, Chase's first word was "truck." Cars have been a problem ever since. By 16, Chase was spending his ...

From March '85 to January '86, Pat Ganahl wrote an expansive 10-part essay in HOT ROD covering every step necessary to paint your car. If you read Pat's very thorough series, you probably thought "I ...