If you haven't already spotted some of the 34-year-olds custom paint work on social media, then you might've caught Acura's anime-driven Type S campaign titled "Chiaki's Journey," which extended from ...

Cars have been status symbols ever since they were invented. Initially, only the rich could afford cars, but as manufacturing techniques and technologies became cheaper and more widespread, so did ...

Let's start with the name. Let's not call them Kemps, or Sleds, or Kustoms with a "K." Let's just call them custom cars. A custom is a car that has been changed, primarily by external modification or ...

Whenever I hear about classic cars parked for over 30 years, I think about rust buckets that aren't worth restoring. But it's not always like that. Some vehicles get lucky, spend their retirement in ...

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.

Chase Bierenkoven is a gearhead and writer based in Denver, Colorado. As the family lore goes, Chase's first word was "truck." Cars have been a problem ever since. By 16, Chase was spending his ...

We had so much good stuff from our last "Barn Finds" story that we decided to carry it over and do Part Two, as promised. In the next pages you'll find a bunch of really cool old cars plucked out of ...

Less than two years after it was completed, the Dodge Deora became a legendary custom, an official Crysler concept, an AMT plastic scale-model kit, and one of the very first Hot Wheels die-cast toy ...

My name is Mike Tellez, and I have been building and painting model cars and trucks for about 15 years. I have been known as a professional modeler for more than nine years and have had my share of ...

Houston has a distinctive car culture. We’re not talking about traffic. We’re talking about tricked-out, "Slow, Low, and Bangin" SLABs, with those bright, shining custom paint jobs, sometimes wrapped ...