Here's a fun fact to ruin your day: Your car isn't painted with "Toyota paint" or "Ford paint." If you've ever gone into a body shop after a parking-lot kerfuffle and demanded the shop use "genuine ...

For as long as body shops and restorers have been painting automobiles, the challenge has been getting a good color match, both as a whole vehicle repaint and in repair work. You've seen them—the '65 ...

The wide world of automotive paint nerd-dom is an easy hole to fall into. Whether you’re obsessed with ultra-niche one-of-one hues or you’re just an admirer of bright, shiny things, you can appreciate ...

Automotive color is where emotional design meets materials science. It influences brand identity, purchase decisions, safety perception and even sustainability.

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Like many hobbies, ours is subject to changes as the years go by. Parts available directly from Ford are mostly gone, products that were once available are not, and new products are popping up that ...