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Books About Paint and Auto Body
How to Paint Your Car on a Budget
In How to Paint Your Car On A Budget, author Pat Ganahl
unveils dozens of secrets that will help anyone paint their own
car. From simple scuff-and-squirt jobs to full-on, door-jambs-
and-everything paint jobs, Ganahl covers everything you need
to know to get a great-looking coat of paint on your car and
save lots of money in the process. This book covers painting
equipment, the ins and outs of prep, masking, painting and
sanding products and techniques, and real-world advice on
how to budget wisely when painting your own car. It’s the most
practical automotive painting book ever written!
How to Paint Your Car on a Budget
Price:
$22.95

Custom Painting
Author Pat Ganahl uses 416 color photos to show you how to
do a variety of custom painting applications and techniques.
From stripes to scallops to flames, candies to pearls to ’flakes,
fades to fogs to blends, this book has it all. With numerous
examples demonstrating how various custom paint jobs are
designed and applied, this book provides a vast wealth of
insight and is intended to help you to make a more-informed
choice among the many options for personalizing your vehicle
with custom paint. Custom Painting not only tells, but also
shows you how to apply these various looks with helpful how-to
tips so that you can understand them and decide what to paint
on your next special project.
Custom Painting
Price:
$22.95

The Paint and Body Handbook
In this book over 450 illustrations and easy to read text are
used to explain how to repair dents and rust, replace body
panels, repair aluminum and fiberglass, perform sectioning, use
lead and plastic filler, weld patches and panels, shape sheet
metal, perform spot repairs and color matching, prepare the
surface for final paint, choose paint supplies and equipment
and apply top coats, graphics and pin stripes. A full color-
troubleshooting guide helps you avoid or correct final paint
problems like blistering, blushing, bleeding, checking, and
orange peel. Whether you're repairing a small ding restoring an
entire car, you’ll find this book to be the most complete hands
on auto body resource available.
The Paint and Body Handbook
Price:
$18.95

The Automotive Paint Handbook
More than just a book on how to paint your car, the Automotive
Paint Handbook is a comprehensive resource that covers the
entire field of automotive paint technology, from types of paint
and how to perform a paint job, to advanced OEM factory paint
techniques, paint care and inspection. For years, paint
professionals from companies such as DuPont have used this
book for training. Now fully revised and updated, this best
selling book has the latest information available from the paint
industry. All information is presented in layman’s terms and fully
illustrated with hundreds of photos and line drawings. There’s
even a full color paint troubleshooting chart and a
comprehensive paint industry glossary.
The Automotive Painting Handbook
Price:
$18.95

How to Paint Your Car
Everything you need to know and everything you need to do
to have perfect paint on your specialty car. Whether it's a
concours-quality restoration or a ground-pounding hot rod, this
book will fit your painting interests. The auto body and paint
business is changing at an incredibly fast rate, mainly in
response to environmental rules and regulations. This book
emphasizes what parts of the job a hobbyist can, and should,
do himself and what should be left to the pros.
How to Paint Your Car
Price:
$ 19.95

Monster Garage: How to Custom Paint
The painting techniques used by the established
professionals on the popular Discovery Channel series,
Monster Garage, are brought to life in this illustrated how-to
book. Step-by-step photos and instructions take you through
the paint process, from planning the job and applying the
base coat through to applying the finishing custom touches.
This book also includes how to: airbrushing custom graphics,
pin striping, painting flames (regular and tribal), and
custom-painting motorcycle and racing helmets.
Monster Garage: How to Custom Paint
Price:
$ 19.95

How to Paint Flames
Custom paint jobs are more popular than ever, and no form of
custom painting is "hotter" than the flame job. This book will
explain how to design the best-looking flames for a particular
vehicle, how to transfer that design to the vehicle, and how to
apply the paint. The process of painting the flames will be
broken into major segments so that the reader can go as far as
they feel their skills and confidence will allow. No other books
focus exclusively on the art of painting flames. Color
photography and photo heavy approach boost the visual
appeal of the book.
How to Paint Flames Price:
$19.95

Pro Paint & Body
This book is a complete resource guide that covers the entire
spectrum of automotive paint and body equipment, and body
repair techniques. You’ll find information on assessing a project
car for damage and estimated repairs, disassembly and paint
stripping, repairing dents including the latest hammer and dolly
tools and techniques, leading, welding, adhesives and plastic
fillers, latest spray guns and spray techniques, current paint
technology, body prep for final paint, color sanding, polishing,
custom colors and custom paint techniques, and much, much
more.
Pro Paint and Body
Price:
$18.95

Chopping Tops: A Practical Hot Rodder's Guide
Learn how professionals customize cars by chopping the
top! Few modifications change the appearance of a vehicle
as much as a well executed top chop. In this
information-packed guide, Larry O'Toole shows you how to
prepare, mark out and accomplish a top chop on a range of
vehicles. Learn how and where to measure for the chop, how
to build an internal frame for the vehicle so that everything
stays in alignment while the roof is off, and how to modify the
windshield glass to suit the new roofline. Hundreds of
step-by-step photos lay out every step of the process.
Chopping Tops: A Practical Hot Rodder's Guide
Price:
$ 22.95

Ultimate Auto Detailing Projects
This book explains all the techniques and products needed,
lays out detailed schedules, and explains the cost in time of
properly detailing a car. By allowing readers to stop the
progression of projects wherever or whenever they wish, this
book appeals to a wide range of readers and the crisp,
all-color photography demonstrates the results that can be
achieved through proper detailing and helps illustrate the
techniques that anyone can use to make their car look as
good as new.
Ultimate Auto Detailing Projects
Price:
$ 19.95

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