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Summary: Properly sand a car down by lightly sanding the car surface before you give it a custom paint job; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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By Doug Jenkins
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Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA...read more

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The automobile—a machine that means so much to so many—is a complex system built on the designs and ideas of men and women who are long gone from the world. And while we’ve enjoyed traveling the back roads of childhood, the streets of adolescence, and the highways of adulthood, the car has remained a reliable means of transportation, as well as a vehicle that embodies the hopes and dreams of reaching exciting new destinations, or returning home.

Cars, as with everything else in this world, deteriorate with use or non-use over time. In this free video clip series our expert, Doug Jenkins, will not only show you how to maintain your car but also how to completely restore and renew its paint job. You'll learn how to scuff off old, dry paint, apply new paint and even fix blemished in the paint job as your cars becomes like new before your eyes. He will show you a step by step procedure on how to give your ride the custom paint job it deserves.

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wguy00 said

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on 7/22/2009 This video doesn't tell you a thing about how to sand your car.

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on 8/2/2008 my video will not play

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"Hi, I'm Doug, I work with 20 great guys in Saint Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we are going to do some work for you on Expert Village. Okay we are going to paint a 63 Impala coverable now. The car has been completely disassembled. All the body work has been done, this car was rusty. Now we have the final primer on there and the first thing we are going to do is sand it and get it all ready to shot. This car is going black and you have to get the car absolutely perfectly straight and flat in order for black to look good. The body man has done lately. We have really good men at the shop, the car is really good. But the painter is the last step of the quality insurance system that we have. So the painter does the final sand on the car. He would take it down to 320 or 400 depending on the grate of paint that we are using. He is going to go over this car and we would get it shot black."

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