As with all things in car customizing history, there is always the tale of who was the first customizer to do a new custom paint trick. And then of course the only way to document its validity is if ...

"It's the last thing you do to a car, but it's the first thing people see." That's how Roger Ward puts it. He ought to know. He's been painting cars for 50 years. Few things can make or break a street ...

Lowriders have been obsessed with custom paint since the invention of bunny ear antennas and 14-inch Cragar wheels. If candies, flakes, and pearls were drugs, you could say that plenty of us have had ...

Aero Precision Metal Works is the name of an Arizona-based custom bike maker that likes to “build motorcycles from the ground up,“ not just take existing platforms and adding this or that custom part ...

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 ...

Some of the most iconic engines ever made, especially engines from the muscle car era, feature painted engine blocks. Look at the 426 Race HEMI, for example. It was one of the most well-known and ...

If an architect wanted to create a building that matched the color of a New York City summer sunset, they’d have to pore over potentially hundreds of color cards designed for industry to get anything ...