2016-03-19 18:53
One of the things about living in Kentucky is every once in a while you get new sinkholes. If you happen to be the National Corvette Museum you can lose stuff like 8 Corvettes! National Corv… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
For many of us painting cars and motorcycles is not an occupation it's a hobby. We are not looking to paint a fender on a 2002 Buick we are looking to do a custom paint job, something specia… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Things creep up on you. You know it's coming but it's complicated of a long way off so you decide to just think about it later then it's time. Well it's time. The National Emission Standards… Read More
2015-02-21 23:29
I had the opportunity to to take a look at the two newest spray guns from the top spray gun manufactures. The newest gun from Sata and the two newest spray guns from Iwata. The Sata 500… Read More
2009-10-26 00:26
I heard that Yahoo is shutting down GeoCities this week. Back in 1999 Geocities was one of two or three places you could put up a free website. Good bye Geocities good bye The Paint Professo… Read More
2009-10-24 16:57
Here at Allen Paint we sell Sherwin Williams Ultra 7000 as our premier line. The Ultra 7000 is the basecoat I recommend for exact matches on newer cars it is excellent paint and I love it… Read More
2009-05-17 13:28
This post comes in response to to a readers question. Donald Butler from Houston is restoring a Jeep and keeps a video blog of his progress.Donald asked what is the best gun for doing a meta… Read More
2009-05-05 02:54
This from Telegraph.co.uk Art student Sara Watson a 22-year-old student at the University of Central Lancashire spray painted a battered Skoda Fabia to match the car park and en… Read More
2009-04-04 05:02
Polyester body filler, Bondo, (a registered trade mark that has taken on the generic title) pasta, or just plastic filler, call it what you want we all use it. There are economy f… Read More
2009-02-26 00:17
When asked for advise about pearl paint the first thing I have to do is narrow down what kind of pearl we are talking about. There are three kinds of pearl paint jobs. Pearl is an in… Read More
2009-02-14 22:06
These can be hard times for paint stores. These can be hard times for your customers, especially if your customers are big body shops at the dealership level. These can also be times o… Read More
2008-12-17 23:17
Thinking about getting a new car? And you want a more economical one right? It turns out that looking at the MPG (miles per gallon) is more complicated then you would guess.Rick Larrick and… Read More
2008-12-07 01:10
A couple of months a ago I complained that I was out of the loop with the Sherwin Williams Planet Color system. Well I'm happy to say that my local SW rep took care of us and we have the sna… Read More
2008-11-22 13:09
Sherwin Williams has posted a preview of their new web site design very clean very web2.oThe web 2.0 part? Well they are calling it the beta site and they are posting videos to YoutubeI've… Read More
2008-11-14 17:54
The news today revolves around a multibillion dollar bailout of the Big Three auto makers. I'm not sure where to come down on this on one hand we can't let millions of people to be thrown ou… Read More
2008-07-21 23:09
A note on the return of the Acme Paint label. I heard a rumor that one of the reasons Sherwin Williams has resurrected the Acme is a mater of use it or loss it.Sherwin folded Acme back in… Read More
2008-06-15 11:50
A customer came in the store the other day and with a very nice presentation book The Sherwin Williams Color Planet custom color book. It is a very nice book very cool colors much like PPG's… Read More
2008-03-22 16:13
I got to work this morning to find a new product on the shelf. Sherwin Williams has brought back the Acme label. When I first started in the paint business the store that I worked for sold A… Read More
2008-03-09 05:07
Thanks to Karen Taylor for the link to this story on Neatorama an exhaustive look at how car logos have changed over the yearsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Shar… Read More
2007-12-08 17:37
Sorry for not having posted for so long, I broke my arm and that slowed me up for a while.I went to visit a fabulous shop this week, Gunslinger Custom Paint in Golden Colorado. I would love… Read More
2007-10-24 02:51
Everybody has favorite colors it's one the things 5 year olds say to each other "Whats your favorite color?" orange? purple? Today at the paint store a guy came in and wanted to paint his ca… Read More
2007-09-30 01:19
If you have read this blog for any length of time you have figured out that I work for a retail automotive paint store in Denver Colorado, Allen Paint. We are a small store and really speci… Read More
2007-09-19 19:40
If your going to NACE this year stop by the PPG booth and see their line of waterborne basecoat system or their seminar "Introduction to Waterborne," on Friday, Nov. 2.PPG has had a lot of… Read More
2007-09-09 19:13
Time has this list the 50 worst cars of all time. The the 1899 Horsey Horseless to the 2004 Chevy SSR. Some of my favorites are on the list the Renault Dauphine, the Ford Edsel The Pinto Th… Read More
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