Automotive Addicts

A lot of people would love to buy a classic car, but they always seem to think that classic means cheap, they just don’t understand that you get what you pay for, if your looking for a car to restore, and you don’t want to start with a junk yard special, you’d better save up some cash.

This is not the 1970′s, or the 1980′s prices of classic cars go up every year, like clock work, it’s not that same thing as your new car that loses value as soon as you drive it off of the lot, this is all just a matter of thinking about it in a logical way, you get what you pay for. Continue reading ‘Classic Cars For Sale – How To Buy A Classic Car’ »

How To Paint Your Classic Car Like A Pro After the finish body work is done, and your primer has been sanded to 600 grit wet, you can mask your classic car, and get ready for paint, if your lucky you can rent a paint booth for a day to paint the car, if renting a paint booth is the plan, you should wait to mask your car, until you get there.

I always suggest that you rent a booth, unless you have a garage that you can clean, blow out, and hose down until it’s absolutely dust free, if there is any dust around your car, it will be in the paint in the end, where if you rent a paint booth, they are usually kept clean, all you have to do is water the floors. Continue reading ‘How To Paint Your Classic Car Like A Pro’ »

Since I don’t remember doing an article on how to custom paint your car, I thought that I’d just introduce you the very most basic ideas behind custom auto paint work on your car, for this article we’ll look at painting flames on your hot rod.

Keep in mind that a lot of this is just a re-hash of the things that I have talked about in my how to pain your car articles, with that in mind you will have heard some of the things that I’m going to talk about in this article, but please don’t just blow them off, they are all essential to the process of custom paint. Continue reading ‘How To Custom Paint Your Car – The Basics’ »

This is a question that I was asked last week, and the truth is that there is no definite answer to it, a standard paint job on a car takes forty hours to perform, and depending on the shop labor rate, and the cost of supplies this can change quite a bit.

If your talking a custom pint job, like candy apple you can add the shop labor rate times 120 hours, because the paint candy apple works like this, first you’d lay down a base coat of reflective paint, usually silver or gold color, depending the what your looking for. Continue reading ‘How Much Does It Cost To Paint A Car – Let’s Talk Perfect Paint The Cost Is Up To You’ »