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 ...

Restoring antique vehicles is a labor of love that often presents unique challenges, particularly when it comes to paint and ...

The wide world of automotive paint nerd-dom is an easy hole to fall into. Whether you’re obsessed with ultra-niche one-of-one hues or you’re just an admirer of bright, shiny things, you can appreciate ...

How many times has this happened to you? After spending hours agonizing over the perfect shade of paint, you gleefully coat every wall in your home in that shade. Then, years later, when there’s a ...

As every conscientious vehicle owner knows, car paint doesn’t stay perfect forever. Scratches, chips and rust spots ...

According to research by PPG, grayscale shades from white to black comprised 76 percent of paint colors on vehicles sold in the United States in 2020. The next most popular color, blue, checked in at ...

“We do know that color does sell vehicles. We've done market research that shows that if people cannot get the color they want, they will not buy the vehicle and they'll change brands and change ...

You spent hours choosing the perfect paint color and covered every wall with care. But years later, a touch-up is needed—and you can’t remember if the shade of green was Phantom Mist or Dinner Mint.