If you haven't already spotted some of the 34-year-olds custom paint work on social media, then you might've caught Acura's anime-driven Type S campaign titled "Chiaki's Journey," which extended from ...

Cars have been status symbols ever since they were invented. Initially, only the rich could afford cars, but as manufacturing techniques and technologies became cheaper and more widespread, so did ...

My name is Mike Tellez, and I have been building and painting model cars and trucks for about 15 years. I have been known as a professional modeler for more than nine years and have had my share of ...

Let's start with the name. Let's not call them Kemps, or Sleds, or Kustoms with a "K." Let's just call them custom cars. A custom is a car that has been changed, primarily by external modification or ...

Whenever I hear about classic cars parked for over 30 years, I think about rust buckets that aren't worth restoring. But it's not always like that. Some vehicles get lucky, spend their retirement in ...

Chase Bierenkoven is a gearhead and writer based in Denver, Colorado. As the family lore goes, Chase's first word was "truck." Cars have been a problem ever since. By 16, Chase was spending his ...

Houston has a distinctive car culture. We’re not talking about traffic. We’re talking about tricked-out, "Slow, Low, and Bangin" SLABs, with those bright, shining custom paint jobs, sometimes wrapped ...