Many people deride the SEMA show as an overgrown car show…and they aren’t completely wrong in a couple of senses. There’s tons upon tons of modified, customized, and highly detailed cars present. It’s an automotive aftermarket show. You don’t just show up with parts in boxes and hope for the best…you have to sell your product, and that means proving that whatever your wares are, they will work for your target audience on an automobile. While big wheels, neon kits, and tons of chrome-plated doodads aren’t up our alley, we can’t lie…we love seeing the beautifully done, time and labor intensive paint jobs throughout the show, and what better place to start the paint tour than at House of Kolor’s booth? This is the name associated with brilliant candy paints, flakes, and everything that is just right and jaw-dropping when it comes to giving your ride a proper color instead of just clearcoating the surface rust. We may never come close to the skill needed to lay down what’s on the Corvair, Impala or the Divco, putting down one basic system is the kind of challenge that any aspiring painter should attempt at least once!
Not sure when I last saw somebody give a Corvair the low rider treatment – but this example pulls it off, very well.