How to Paint Your Car (Motorbooks Workshop)
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How to Paint Your Car (Motorbooks Workshop)
Everything you need to know and everything you need to do to have perfect paint on your specialty car. Whether it’s a concours-quality restoration or a ground-pounding hot rod, this book will fit your painting interests. The auto body and paint business is changing at an incredibly fast rate, mainly in response to environmental rules and regulations. This book emphasizes what parts of the job a hobbyist can, and should, do himself and what should be left to the pros.Topics include:, Tools, equipment, and safety, Planning the paint job, Environmental concerns; Types of paint and materials, Removing trim, Repairing damage/rust, Prepping metal for paint/bodywork, Applying fillers, Applying sealers and primers, Final paint options; custom paint options, Custom graphics, flames, pinstriping, Paint care and touchup
Customer Review: Extremely accurate, informative - if you’re serious!
This book showed me the entire process of car painting, from beginning to end. I successfully painted my commuter car that just won’t die, two years ago, and the paint job is still looking good!
Painting a car, as a novice painter, is a VERY large undertaking (the worse shape the car, the more time it will take). This book does a good job of warning of that, but after doing it myself, I can reiterate how time consuming it can be.
The thing that this book is lacking is more talk about paint chemistry, what to look for in a paint, and how to mix the paint. I was able to piece the mixing together by talking to the people at the local PPG store (who seemed to know less than I did, after reading this book).
If you’re considering painting your car yourself, I would recommend this book - it will give you good insight about how to do it, and gives a realistic picture of how difficult it can be. Just be sure that you’re serious about the job, before you take it on…. it’s time consuming, detail intensive, and you don’t want to be the primer/bondo monstrosities that you see on the street, sometimes.
Customer Review: Painting your own car? You need this book!
When I first started reading this book my first reaction was, “I better leave this to the professionals.” As I got further in, I became more comfortable and decided to go for it. The step-by-step instructions and the illustrations made the job easy. I was very pleased with the results. I would recommend this book to anyone serious about attempting to paint their own car and getting the job done right.
Tags: Body and Trim, Automotive, Paint, accessories
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