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Automotive Art Paints enables Pimentel Innovations, a Car Restoration Company, to Make Magic!

The Automotive Art team went over to SEMA in Las Vegas. Here's some of the action!

After leaving the SEMA 2017 show full of inspiration, we suddenly developed the urge to build a project car of our own to enter into the SEMA Battle of the Builders competition.  

Then we found her, a classic 1958 Chevy Corvette, Vintage Number 20. Battered, bruised and ready for a complete makeover.

Have you ever heard of vantablack?

Vantablack is the darkest substance ever made, but it’s not a color—it’s a material. It was created to help extinguish stray light reflected off telescopes and satellites to increase their clarity. It’s not even a paint; it’s a series of vertically aligned nanotube arrays (hence, VANTA). It absorbs over 99 percent of visible light, and, in real-world applications, resembles one of those escape holes that Wile E. Coyote might lay before the Roadrunner in old Warner Bros. cartoons.

In other words, it looks unreal. Objects coated in vantablack resemble a poor Photoshop edit of the known world. Look it up—how much more black could it be? None.

But vantablack is real. And if anything could read it, it’s the ADAM5 spectrophotometer.

We stopped by Tricked out Customz in Tampa, FL to chat with owner Billy Kidd on his recent paint overhaul of Ann Grande's 1990 Isuzu Pup.

Automotive Art landed in Las Vegas with a bang for SEMA 2016. Our involvement in the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s (SEMA) trade show expanded this year to include...

Make sure to read the full story on David Harter’s one-of-a-kind 1970 Chevelle SS online now and in the March 2017’s Muscle Car Review magazine. 

The exceptional quality of Automotive Art Paints has gained recognition in Super Street Magazine!

Surf City Garage Products Now Available in Our Stores.

Automotive Art attended the AASP/NJ’S 39th Annual Trade Show (2016) held at The Meadowlands.