What do you need? A good compressor, enough hose, a quality spray gun, a sander/buffer, hammer and dolly, sanding block and board, paint, primer, degreaser, a respirator maskâ ¦ and a car to paint.

As the old saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat, and the same is true when it comes to finishing off your project car. The skin your vehicle wears is typically a layer of paint.

The outside of your car has seen better days. It's been sitting out in the sun so long you forgot what the original color was. Or maybe it has a few scratches here and there from those times you drove ...

Karl is a former Senior Editor at CarBuzz and first joined the company as a freelancer in 2019. After graduating as a copywriter and studying journalism, his early work life included stints in ...

Few things give a car more character than its paint and finish. Whether it came off the lot in that color, or you changed it somewhere along the way, good. Well-maintained body paint could really make ...

If the car is finally ready to spray, it should look like this, disassembled, bodyworked, primered, block-sanded. The first step is to blow all dust off the car and out of every crevice. Do this ...