Do-It-Yourself Car Paint Job

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars,tips (October 29, 2007 at 9:01 am)

Car paint job can indeed transform the faded car color to fresh and new look. It is every car owner’s desire to have the best car paint in town. Having a car with a nice paint is the greatest reward for the car owner. The first question a car owner needs to answer in having car paint is do you hire a car painter or you do it by yourself? To help you answer the first question, you need to answer the next question, do you have the budget? Remember then that your goal is that the car will look great in the end, so you really want to be sure that great job will be done.  Between all those arising questions, don’t let all that hinders you from achieving great car paint. Remember the saying: If there’s a will, there’s a way. So, do it yourself then unless you don’t have the time and the patience to do it properly.

            Doing a car paint job is not a joke; car paint once painted in the car cannot be easily removed.  Thus, before going through this process make sure that you really understand what are the steps and how they should be done properly. Paints if not properly handled can cause bad health and even affect your neighbor.  So you really have to be careful, car paintings are about mixing chemicals, and you don’t want to die before you finish painting your car. Doing a car paint job by yourself may seem complicated, but if you are really persistent in doing it and have acquired the necessary knowledge, it can be done in a couple days. Just imagine, the amount of money you save. Surely you will really be proud that you, yourself done the car paint job.  

Dont paint your car to look like this mess

Car Paint Job

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Great Look At Low Cost

Posted by Jo in Cars,Classic Cars,Concept Cars,tips,Used Cars (October 28, 2007 at 11:58 pm)

Great Look At Low Cost

Need an instant car makeover? Get custom car decals. Other than going through car paint job and airbrushing custom car decals are very simple and easy way to make your car stand out; head turn and wow every one. It can be install in trucks, motorcycles and of course cars. It will give your car great finishing look. There are magazines were custom car decals design are available, but great design can be easily seen at online. Dealers and car shops have these and can also install it for you though you can do it personally.
A decal design is not only to highlight some car parts but there are also which can cover big surface of you car which is called the body wrap. Since we use our vehicle whatever the weather is, be sure your decal can stand all season. It has various designs you can choose from – sporty stripes for racecars, or any images; whatever designs a special car paint job can do or airbrush; decals have them too. You can make your own design and ask shop to print it out for you. Unlike doing a car paint design or airbrushing, decals are very easy to install and cheap, yet will still give your car the great look you wanted. When getting decals, other than the design, be sure to look for the materials it is made of. Vinyl is the best material for a long lasting decal whatever the design is. And the best thing about is; it does not need to stay permanently in your car. Once you had enough of it, you can choose to remove it and have that change look again.

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How Bad Is Your Custom Car

Posted by Jo in Cars,Classic Cars,Concept Cars,tips ( at 10:58 pm)

Customizing a car is for the purpose of making the car look greater – in style and performance, even if it does already. It is putting one’s personality to your ride. Most of the custom cars really look good and amazing. A good custom car is evident not just in it’s exterior or what people see in the car’s appearance but as well as how it was customize in the interior especially its engine performance. These things make it bad for the custom car, looking great but running bad, since custom cars are not just made for appearance but as well as for speed. So when looking at custom car, whatever make and model, style and performance go together.
The first thing that makes a custom car bad is the car itself. Not all cars can be customize. Car enthusiast really knows what is the best car to customize and that is golden oldies car though of course new model can be customize as well but old cars are really great. Bad custom cars have improperly mounted spoilers, out of place lowering, not functioning headlights and taillights, chrome gas door covers, ugly racing stripes, not coordinated car paint colors, just to name a few. Since custom cars are parts brought together, each part should matched with other parts so you will end up with a great a custom car. There are car owners, who do not really take much effort in considering style, performance and parts of their custom car. They just do it for the sake of customizing. But if that is their style, who are we to ask of his preference with his custom car? That is the car owner’s personality. Well, that’s the great thing with custom car, the owner can do whatever he wants whether other like his custom car or not. There are many resources where one can get great ideas in customizing a car, so it is impossible to end up having a bad custom car unless the car owner really choose to have a bad one.

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Find A Family In A Custom Car Club

Posted by Jo in Cars,Uncategorized (October 27, 2007 at 9:52 am)

It is obvious that cars and fear of heights have nothing In common, so why the name Acrophobias Custom Car Club? For the sake of uniqueness. Acrophobias Custom Car Club is initially an exclusive big truck club, though there are already cars in the club. They have more than 20 chapters across America and are still opening on some states, while Japan and Australia have existing chapters already. Acrophobias Custom Car Club members everywhere have one thing in common: love for customizing their vehicles with a family attitude. Though this is not the only thing they do if they are together; they have party, car show and they keep a store where members can buy club’s memorabilia. This activities enable them to bond with each other enjoying the company of others and their vehicles.

Getting into this club is never easy; they have vehicle and member’s qualification for anyone who wish to join, which they say is for the purpose of having that quality vehicle and people. For the vehicle, your wheels should be 17 inches or bigger, primer is a no, no, only flat paints are allowed. Vehicle should be clean in the interior and exterior at all times especially during car shows and meetings. A member should always attend scheduled meeting, so strong commitment to the club should be given. Despite the vehicle qualification, they look more for the personality and attitude of the prospect member. What really binds the members other than their vehicles is their strong relationship with each other and their love for the club, which members consider it as one of their home. With their strict policy on their vehicles and members, it is no wonder they often won on car shows they were even chosen 2006 Club of the Year by Mini Truckin.  All of these accomplished within 9 years after their founding on 1998.

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Selling Your Custom Car

Posted by Jo in Cars,tips ( at 5:09 am)

 There is a big market for custom car and it can sell fast if it has the right packaging. There is just a little difference between those expensive must – have cars and a modified one. That is why many custom cars are still buyable despite all it’s been through. Many autos are modified to appear expensive to be able to be sold at high price. This is a great opportunity for any car enthusiast to have their car dream at a low price. The most important thing is that your prospective custom car has a great interior and exterior parts; those are what car buyer look for.

Custom cars for sale can be seen on classified ads, swap meets, live auction and online auction. Wherever you decide to buy a custom car, you should test-drive it before making any payments just to be sure that the car you are buying has good engines even if it has good looks. Whatever make of custom car you choose to buy, the money you bought is worth spending because a good custom car can serve you a long way.

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Make Your Custom Car The Fastest

Posted by Jo in Cars,Classic Cars,Concept Cars,tips (October 26, 2007 at 5:36 am)

            Owning one of the fastest streetcars is such a great fulfillment for a car enthusiast. When a car is noted to be fastest streetcar it does not only imply on the cars speed but its look and style come along with the tag. Fast streetcars are really a wow. Every year, car manufacturers are always looking for ways to create fast streetcars. Even a car enthusiast thinks of all the possibility of customizing his car to make it the fastest.

Custom car seems difficult to imagine as one of the fastest streetcars since it used to be old car just modified. But in the early 40’s and 50’s young people, modified their car for this very reason of making their car run fast and changing its look to somewhat personalize. Customizing a car to a fast streetcar is replacing or altering your engine or transmission to improve its speed performance, which is based on the car acceleration and top speed.  At this time, every thing is possible with your car, a car owner can definitely modify whatever car make or model he owns to make it the fastest streetcars. Fast cars manufacturers provide parts and materials needed for this to be possible with your custom car. A car owner may have that most beautiful car, but to have a most beautiful car and the fastest, well, what could possibly a car enthusiast ask more?

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Putting A Custom Car Flag

Posted by Jo in Cars,Classic Cars,Concept Cars,Used Cars (October 25, 2007 at 12:30 pm)

            A custom car flag is very effective in informing people; either your car flag is for advertising, for others to notice you, it shows your support to your team, represents where you came from or just simply expressing yourself and the car who brings it. It can as well add to the attraction to your car. Car flag can be use on national or sporting event. It is placed in any window of the vehicle; it easily clips on the window and can be remove without damaging the window.

            Custom car flag can have various designs and shape; can be a company logo or be personalized. The usual size of a car flag is 12” x 14”, though other sizes are available.  The best material to use is 100% polyester; this is very durable in any kind of weather. But it is important top inform the flag maker as to how and where the car flag will be use to be able to use the right materials and design. The idea of putting a custom car flag is to get that attention, for this to happen, your custom car flag should have great design and color. These two are the basis for pricing a car flag, the more color and design the more effort and material is needed. But remember, a custom car flag is not for fast cars.

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New Look For Your Custom Car

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars ( at 10:49 am)

Custom car paint job do a lot of things for your custom car; personalize it the way you want it to be; it enhances the car and will definitely make your car stand out anywhere it go. Custom paint designs varies from flames, ghost flames, perls, candy apple and chameleon which can done on a single color or two. There are many reasons why a custom car owner would go for a paint job, other than giving it the best look, there may be some small chips of paint that have been removed over the course of time though doing this is applicable for small chips and not on long scratches or maybe just a complete change of look.

Custom car paint job can be done by a professional or choose to do it by yourself. If you do it by yourself, you will be able to save lots of money that hiring a professional. But of course you have to have that knowledge and skill to be able to give that great look you are dreaming of. You can watch a car painter in an auto shop and learned from it. Though it may sound easy it is rather complicated, so be sure to be really prepared or else you will just mess up your car.

If you choose to hire a professional custom car painter, well of course, you need to consider your budget. Informing the car painter of how long you want to last the paint that means really costly. Are you doing a complete change look or your custom car just need painting on the areas that is seen? Is it for a car show? A lot of things have to be considered whether you hire a professional or do it yourself. Yet, one thing is for sure, when your car got its new paint, all your sweat was worth it.  

Import Paint

Bee Car

Bee Car Paint

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Get That Chop Top Look

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars ( at 6:20 am)

“Chop Top” technique is one of the most popular way to customize a car. Lots of 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s autos are custom car “Chop Top”. And even up to this time, there are still chop top custom car you can see on the road. Despite being lessened, it is still very popular being seen on different car shows plus it is becoming a concept of some car manufacturer. Customizing your car to a Chop Top needs lots of hard work, great dedication or else you and you car will definitely screw up, wasted effort. It is considered as the greatest custom surgery. It is done through lowering the roof of a certain car, which makes it different and gives a unique look from other car.
These past years, chopped top cars are very few other than those seen on car shows and the new models that are already chop top. It is now difficult to chop top those new make and model of car because some of the car angles are big such as the windshield, the window curving. Cars with these styles are not suited for chop top customizing.

Chop Top

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Designing Your Custom Car

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars (October 24, 2007 at 10:17 am)

To a custom car enthusiast, their custom car is more than transportation. It symbolizes his whole personality; his expression of taste, his dreams, and his car is he. Every part of the car is optional, it means that you can keep it or replace it with whatever design you want. There are custom car enthusiasts who are much after the performance of the car than its appearance while some goes after the looks.

Designing a custom car is simple, replacing or adding some parts in the car, change the appearance with a new paint or putting on stickers. Doing this can be done in two ways: with professionals or do it yourself. If you choose to hire a professional for this job be sure to get the right person and the most important thing is as the owner of the custom car you should be able to clearly discuss what design you really want though his ideas can be helpful as well. If you choose to do it by yourself, there are bunch of ideas, which you can get. There is no limit to the design you want for your custom car and available supplies are just about anywhere it all just depends on your budget.

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