You often hear people lament the cost of painting a car, but in a sense that's not a very accurate way to look at it; the "painting" portion of the process is really just the tip of the iceberg. For ...

So we started digging--visiting the various paint companies' Web sites,talking to painters we knew, reading material tech and safety sheets,boning up on our chemistry . . . until at one point, we saw ...

Until recently, people rarely referred to paint in terms of performance. Performance described how well a vehicle accelerated, cornered, or braked. But paint? Unless you were building a show car, it ...