Cool Custom Car Color Paint

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars,tips (November 2, 2007 at 4:06 am)

Color paint is an important concern in a custom car.  As a matter of fact the paint of the car makes a big scene in car shows, a custom with great color paint may even get an award for it. The color paint you choose may depend highly on your personality, the style of the car and its function. Large percentage of the decision will come from you, but you should also consider the opinion of professional car painter. Some colors would really just look good in the mind but when painted the colors actually do not jive, only the professional will know this.

Many ideas can be seen everywhere as to what is the cool color paint. But it is important to have your own idea and be unique as possible. The right color paint – a heavy, shinny paint job will surely make any custom car stand out among the rest. The popular paint scheme today is two – color paint. Color paints that are a delight today are those earth tones-coppers, gold, burnt oranges, browns, cinnamons, deep red, shades of green, lighter metallic, pearl colors and the come back of metal flake. Good color paint must compliment the car, adding to the car’s attraction rather than the color paint is the only thing attractive in the custom car. Taking care of the color paint is important to make it last. Other than the color paint, customizer can add design on the paint to make it more personal and unique.

Custom Car Color

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Beat Them On A Streetcar Race

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars,tips ( at 3:05 am)

Streetcar Race

Streetcar racing will never die. Started before as an illegal activity of racers, now there are legal streetcar race that is done by professional car racers. Car freaks, I call these streetcar racers, do not just modified their cars to display its appearance and speed, but they really have to race it or they think their custom streetcar is of no use. It is never enough that a custom streetcar has a great launch and speeds up to ninety mph or more.

 To beat them, which is the goal, needs a lot of know – how with the streetcar you will be using and a hundreds of practice, practice and practice. Every streetcar is different; to be an effective streetcar racer you should know how to launch your car. And a streetcar may have different launching method; try to experiment on different situations so you will get the best launching method for a specific situation during a race. A lot of practice means a constant change of tires, replacements and repairs, one should be ready for this expenses. As they say, experience is the best teacher, practice, practice and be patient to bring it out the best in your streetcar and in you as the streetcar racer.

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The Fast, The Fairest Custom Street Car

Posted by Jo in Cars,tips (October 30, 2007 at 9:28 am)

  Cars are customize to give it a new unique look and to improve its performance. Most of the custom cars, other than being use as transportation or to showcase, it is often use as street racecar. Custom street car are for people who love the adrenalin surge, they want to impress others, express their self in a different way or might even use them for races. A street car racer can get a lot of money from winning in a street car race, but it might just covered for the expenses in customizing the vehicle to a street race car and for its maintenance. 

A simple and ordinary car can run very fast, all that is needed is to change its engine, using nitro boost. Replacing the ignition will help a lot plus some silencer to reduce engine noise. With that fast speed, never forget to have the great look for your custom streetcar; both will bring you the greatest car in the world. For that good-looking design, check out some car enthusiast as well. They can give you a lot of practical information and you can personally ask them. Other than that there are car magazines and also the web to get some ideas in customizing street cars.

 Street Car

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Get Rid Of Worn Out Car Mats

Posted by Jo in Cars,tips ( at 6:21 am)

Custom car mats are more than a simple carpet place in the vehicle’s foot. Usually a car comes along with car mats but this car mats from a car manufacturer are often made of low material which easily wears out. Thanks to those companies who make custom car mats to replace this worn car mats. There are many custom car mats dealer that can really personalize it the way you want it to be.

Custom car mats are different depending on the make and model even the year your car was manufactured. The best car mats manufacturer is complete with all this sizes to facilitate an exact fit to your car. Though if the manufacturer does not have the fit of the make and model of your car, just submit the pattern and they will do an exact fit custom car mat for your car. As it is custom – made, any design you want can be placed in the car, whatever appearance, style, color, material and even embroidery. Other than the design, the material is really what is important in a custom car mat; it should be able to last long despite the dust and dirt it has to go through.

Car Mats

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Spade Kreations, Custom Car Fabricator

Posted by Jo in Cars ( at 3:50 am)

Almost every thing in a custom car can be done any car owner or enthusiast; except for fabrication. Skilled people who studied custom car fabrication in a school do this work. It is very complicated work, because it involves a lot of customization in the car’s engine, other car interior’s part and mechanical engineering background. To make a great car fabrication, a fabricator should have broad knowledge regarding the equipments to be use such as Pipe benders, Mig welders, plasma cutter, sheet metal shrinker, metal shear and many other more.

 One of the known custom car fabricator is Spade Kreations located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rick Spade founded the company in 1999. Spade Kreations work in a 40,000 square feet facility together with its staff to build custom vehicles, boats, motorcycles and other kind of vehicle for their clients. Due to their great work in custom car fabrication, they actually won the Designer’s Award from Daimler Chrysler. One of the cars they built was featured in Rides Magazine and on “Powerblock” a weekend program on Spike TV.
You don’t want to trust your car fabrication with just anybody, so make sure you got the best custom car fabricator around. To get a quote from Spike Kreations and other information, check out their site: http://www.spadekreations.com

Car Fabricator

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Custom Painting RC Body

Posted by Jo in Cars,RC Cars,tips (October 29, 2007 at 11:52 pm)

Making a custom car is really rewarding for a car enthusiast; so other than customizing the vehicles, radio cars or commonly called RC cars are being customized as well to give a unique personality. One of the great things about RC cars is the wide variety of bodies and paint schemes a car enthusiast can choose from to customize. If you want to customize, there are available RC kits that comes with each parts and you can just assemble it. Painting your RC is the greatest part of customizing it, it’s exciting and you just can’t wait to finish and see that great painting you have than on your RC body. This is where life is given to RC car, giving it the personality through its paint.

RC are actually much difficult to paint, especially if you plan to have many colors and design rather than using decal; it is for the fact that is small thus such detailed should be given. There are two ways to custom paint your RC Body – spray can and the airbrush method. Spray can is easier and the most widely used. Before going into the painting itself, wash the body with warm water mixed with liquid detergent to remove any dust inside. Make use of tools that are available to make your job easier. Learn the necessary steps and precautions needed, such as the drying time, other basic materials that will be helpful such as those masking tape or hair dryer. Don’t forget the decals to ass that extra touch of personality. Custom Painting RC body is challenging for those who will done it for the first time, yet as you go along you will be able to discover many techniques and style to help you. Learning to paint RC Car needs patience, practice and commitment to end up having RC which you will be proud of.

Photo By elsie

RC CAR

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A Custom Car Or A Custom Golf Car?

Posted by Jo in Cars,Classic Cars,Concept Cars ( at 11:08 am)

Many custom golf cars now are actually from old golf carts. They were just customized to improve its performance. Yes, customizing golf carts have been around already for five years. It’s engine and body parts are removed or covered to have a different look. Other than the basic parts added to it, accessories are also installed such car audio, custom wheels with spinners and custom body panels in different colors to make your ride fun and enjoyable. Custom bodies for golf carts are basically a high quality of fiberglass body, which is lay individually. This fiberglass should be pre-drilled and pre-fitted at the factory to be sure that it will fit in the golf cart.

Custom bodies for golf carts can be bought from golf cart manufacturer. Each brand and model has different specification that is not the same. Yet golf cart manufacturer will know what exactly suits your golf cart’s make and model. Before purchasing to any golf cart manufacturer be sure that they allow products to be return if you got wrong pieces. After the customizing is finish, the custom golf carts will likely ends up looking like Hot Rods Cart. It’s appearance and performance very much different from golf carts. It can speed up just like any custom car and be displayed in any car show. Who would thought that such beautiful and fast car is a golf cart before?

Big pimping golf cart

pimpin golf cart

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Do-It-Yourself Car Paint Job

Posted by Jo in Cars,Concept Cars,tips ( 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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