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Book, How To Paint Your Car

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How to Paint Your Car reveals the techniques, tricks, and technology behind automotive painting through 400 color photos, clear captions, detailed text, and step-by-step how-to sequences. You’ll learn the latest information about paint chemistry, waterborne paints, spray guns, body fillers, surface prep, site prep, as well as respirators and other safety gear that every automotive painter must know. With step-by-step detail, you’ll learn how to properly prepare your car for paint work, including minor bodywork, surface preparation, rust removal, masking, priming and final coating. How to Paint Your Car also includes information about custom touches and effects as well as how to care for your paint after application, including information on buffing compounds, waxes, and other care products. Everything you need to know to feel comfortable and confident in undertaking your own paint project, whether a touch-up job or a complete respray, is covered in How to Paint Your Car. Dennis W. Parks has written several best-selling how-to books for the Motorbooks Workshop series, including How to Paint Your Car, How to Build a Cheap Hot Rod, Hot Rod Body and Chassis Builder's Guide, and The Complete Guide to Auto Body Repair. Parks' personal projects currently include a complete buildup of a 1955 Chevy pickup truck. He lives in Cedar Hill, Missouri. 192 pages, 400 color photos and 20 diagrams. Paperback. 10-5/8"x8-1/4".

WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including lead, sulfur, nickel, chromium, vanadium, titanium, polyvinyl chloride, and 4,4’-methylenebis (2-chloroaniline), which are known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

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Year Make Model Application Details
1982 Buick Grand National  
1984–1987 Buick Grand National  
1978–1987 Buick Regal  
1963–1976 Buick Riviera  
1961–1972 Buick Skylark  
1983–1987 Buick T-Type  
1938–1993 Cadillac 60 Special  
2013–2019 Cadillac ATS  
2003–2019 Cadillac CTS  
1959–1993 Cadillac DeVille  
1953–1993 Cadillac Eldorado  
1999–2000 Cadillac Escalade  
2002–2023 Cadillac Escalade  
2002–2013 Cadillac Escalade EXT  
1954–1993 Cadillac Fleetwood  
1936–1951 Cadillac Series 61  
1937–1976 Cadillac Series 62  
1936–1987 Cadillac Series 70  
1976–1993 Cadillac Seville  
2005–2011 Cadillac STS  
2004–2009 Cadillac XLR  
1964–1977 Chevrolet Chevelle  
1960–1969 Chevrolet Corvair  
1961–1965 Chevrolet Corvair FC  
1964–1987 Chevrolet El Camino  
 
1978–1983 Chevrolet Malibu  
1997–2022 Chevrolet Malibu  
1970–1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo  
 
1961–1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass  
 
1959–1977 Pontiac Bonneville  
1982–1986 Pontiac Bonneville  
1959–1977 Pontiac Catalina  
1962–1987 Pontiac Grand Prix  
 
1964–1973 Pontiac GTO  
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