If you haven't already spotted some of the 34-year-olds custom paint work on social media, then you might've caught Acura's anime-driven Type S campaign titled "Chiaki's Journey," which extended from ...

The allure of unique factory paint jobs can transform already iconic cars into highly sought-after collector’s items. From major luxury brands to high-performance sports cars, factory special paint ...

My name is Mike Tellez, and I have been building and painting model cars and trucks for about 15 years. I have been known as a professional modeler for more than nine years and have had my share of ...

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 ...

Let's start with the name. Let's not call them Kemps, or Sleds, or Kustoms with a "K." Let's just call them custom cars. A custom is a car that has been changed, primarily by external modification or ...

Whenever I hear about classic cars parked for over 30 years, I think about rust buckets that aren't worth restoring. But it's not always like that. Some vehicles get lucky, spend their retirement in ...

Less than two years after it was completed, the Dodge Deora became a legendary custom, an official Crysler concept, an AMT plastic scale-model kit, and one of the very first Hot Wheels die-cast toy ...

You know what's so great about paint? There's no rules. They have laws restricting nearly everything else you do to your car: how low you lower it, how high you raise it, how fast you drive it, how ...

As the old saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat, and the same is true when it comes to finishing off your project car. The skin your vehicle wears is typically a layer of paint.

Houston has a distinctive car culture. We’re not talking about traffic. We’re talking about tricked-out, "Slow, Low, and Bangin" SLABs, with those bright, shining custom paint jobs, sometimes wrapped ...