The secret to a show-winning finish, once the endless repair, de-rusting, block-sanding, and painting are done, is color-sanding. Experience can teach you to shoot paint well enough that most people ...

After the compound has worked its magic on the imperfection, the surface might look a bit hazy or discolored. To bring back that showroom shine, apply a finishing polish using a clean cutting pad.

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 ...

You often hear people lament the cost of painting a car, but in a sense that's not a very accurate way to look at it; the "painting" portion of the process is really just the tip of the iceberg. For ...

View post: The Corvette ZR1X Is So Fast It Breaks NHRA Street-Car Rules No matter how hard we try to keep our cars’ paint safe from scuffs and scratches, damage can still happen. Scratches can be ...

Have you ever stared at the mirrorlike perfection of a high-end paintjob on a show car and wondered how on earth the color and clearcoat could be made to lay so flawlessly flat? And then, of course, ...

The automotive-paint industry is an ever-changing world. When the first cars rolled off the assembly line, they were painted with a brush. The first Corvettes, meanwhile, were finished with lacquer ...