1998 Dodge Ram Spot Paint!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1998 Dodge Ram. This truck is used by its owner primarily as a fun vehicle / hunting truck. Naturally, as most secondary vehicles go, its paint was neglected and the sun decided to pay some serious attention to it! Over the years harmful Ultra Violet or "UV" rays will take their toll on any surface, especially car's paint! We sanded down the defective peeling paint on the hood and bumper and matched the existing color as closely as possible with our Enamel paint!

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1998 Honda CR-V Full Exterior Paint!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1998 Honda CR-V. When this little SUV came to our shop it looked confused, many of its panels did not match and were not even shiny! Instead of driving the poor thing around looking like that, the owner made the right decision and chose to get the Honda refinished with our Enamel paint in the car's original color!

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1997 Toyota Camry Complete Paintjob!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1997 Toyota Camry. This family mover came to our shop half black and half gold! Some of its panels had been replaced outside of our shop due to a collision and were never painted! Instead of painting just the black areas, the owner decided to get the entire car repainted since most of the paint was already old and showing its age. This Camry was repainted using our basic Enamel paint package, which includes a chemical cleaning, abrading the old paint to promote adhesion, masking the trim & lights to minimize the paint that gets on these areas, painting the exterior and baking the paint!

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1994 Nissan Hardbody Overall Paintjob

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 1994 Nissan Hardbody Pickup. This workhorse came to our shop with its original paint clinging on for dear life! Most of the truck's clear coat had peeled off or "delaminated" which is common for a vehicle of this age. Also the truck had the "old school" 1990s era vinyl stickers on its sides which aren't too popular nowadays and the owner wanted them gone. We began by removing the vinyl graphics and peeling paint, sanding down all of the old paint to an even, smooth surface. Once sanding was complete we masked off all of the exterior portions that were not to be painted and did a final chemical cleaning to ensure no other contaminants were clinging to the trucks surface prior to paint. Finally the truck was ready for its new Enamel paint, we repainted the entire exterior with its original color; Slate Grey Pearl Metallic.

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Electric Car? We Won't Tell!

Who knew venerable Consumer Reports tested cars like this?! We are impressed with their video of the Tesla Model S. We're also impressed that the Model S goes like stink, looks & feels like the finest luxury car, uses half the fuel of a Prius, has 2 huge cargo areas and can drive 200 miles between "fill-ups." Who cares if it's powered by electricity, gas or Spam?! These stats are damned hard to argue with. We'll take one in burgundy please. Oh, what the hell, give us one in midnight blue too!





P.S. MotorTrend named the Tesla Model S the 2013 Car of the Year. Consumer Reports gave it the highest score of any car. . . ever.

For more recent news on the Tesla Model S:
consumerreports.org
cnn.com
usatoday.com
cnbc.com
latimes.com

2005 Mini Cooper S Paint Job!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 2005 Mini Cooper S.  This hot hatch came to Almost-Everything as a multicolored...thing.  Luckily with auto paint being our specialty, we knew exactly what to do to get this Mini back on the road catching eyes as it is supposed to! The car's owner decided to have us repaint the car in its original black color, which we did after we completed all of our much needed prep work.  Every paint job that Almost-Everything offers comes with all of the "Basic" prep work.  We chemically clean the car to remove foreign contaminants, scuff the surface with an abrasive hand pad to promote adhesion of the new paint, and maskin off of all windows, lights, and trim. Once these steps are completed the entire exterior of the car is painted and finally baked in our massive oven to cure the new finish onto the car!

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Star Trek, Spock(s) and Audi

Almost nothing to do with Almost Everything Autobody EXCEPT that some of us here have loved Star Trek since the 1960's (others only since the 1990's) and we are always fans of cool cars. This video puts 'em all together (with 2 Spocks no less!)



Our friend Tod says that old Spock needs to have said "illogical" when his golf clubs won't fit in the trunk!

2000 Honda Civic Repaint!

Almost Everything's Car of the Day is a 2000 Honda Civic Si. This sporty little gas saver came to our shop as two different cars, the front end had recently been replaced with another Civic's front, leaving the whole car mismatched and ugly. Luckily this Honda didn't have many problems with its existing paint, so the owner decided to stick with our basic prep work; Chemically cleaning the car, scuffing the existing paint surfaces, masking off all windows and trim, complete exterior paint and a final bake in our oven! As you can see many older cars can look 100x better with just a simple paint job!

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Lotus Elise Squashed Like a Bug

Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is a diminutive 2005 Lotus Elise that got even smaller when a Ford Five Hundred drove on top of it. WreckedExotics.com reports that an old woman making a left hand turn just drove right up and over the Lotus--you can see the tire tracks up the hood and over the windshield!

World's Most Baffling Vehicle

We've missed Axis of Oversteer. They provided us this photo of the new Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet with the caption "This has to be one of the world's most baffling vehicles." I saw one recently on the road near San Francisco. Sadly, it doesn't look any better in the flesh. But someone did need to fill the void left by those 1990's Suzuki X90s that have at this point mostly expired.

Side-Swiped Aston Martin

What would you do if you found your car sideswiped in a garage? Almost Everything's Wreck of the Day is an Aston Martin DBS and if it happened to us, we'd be gleeful that we owned an Aston Martin! Then, of course, we'd be rather upset! Wonder if this can be fixed for less than our $1000 deductible? Uh. . . probably not.

Thanks to the brilliant guys at WreckedExotics.com who find all these things for us.

Lamborghini's 50th Anniversary

Almost Everything Auto Body Repair & Paint celebrates the 50th anniversary of the October 30, 1963 founding of Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A. We've collected photos of some of our favorite Lamborghinis. Some have been gorgeous cars. . . and some we would be hard pressed to call beautiful but were none-the-less brutally fast and always fascinating.

Progression of Lamborghinis, Photos by en:Wikipedia user Nrbelex

1964 Lamborghini 350 GT photo by  Simon Davison

Lamborghini Miura 400S, photo by Alfvan Beem

Lamborghini Espada, photo by Mobius

Lamborghini Aventador on the 50° Anniversario ‘Grande Giro’

Lamborghini Aventador on the 50° Anniversario ‘Grande Giro’

Ferruccio Lamborghini didn't make his fortune by selling exotic sports cars. He made it selling these. . . 

1951 Lamborghini--really!

. . . and the sports cars came later!