Here's a fun fact to ruin your day: Your car isn't painted with "Toyota paint" or "Ford paint." If you've ever gone into a body shop after a parking-lot kerfuffle and demanded the shop use "genuine ...

Paint jail. It's a known menace to our craft, one that has seen the demise of many a project. It's the car crafting version of a roach motel-cars go in but they don't come out. It usually goes like ...

For as long as body shops and restorers have been painting automobiles, the challenge has been getting a good color match, both as a whole vehicle repaint and in repair work. You've seen them—the '65 ...

Choosing paint colors can be an enterprise fraught with significant (other) danger and considerable expense. (Need proof? Consider the pyramid of too-bold, not-bold-enough, not-quite-right, paint cans ...