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Summary: Tape the back of a car before you give it a custom paint job; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.
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
"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. Now Tony is going to very carefully mask the underside of the car a little bit. He is going to use duct tape to get started with. He is going to build some skirts to hang down along the inside of the car so we don't blow paint up everywhere underneath the car. Some of the underside of this car would look finished before Tony has got it. Some of the mechanical and some of it yet has to be done. But either way you don't want a bunch of paint blowing up under the car he uses duct tape. Because the underside of the car is probably dirty and duct tape sticks to everything better a lot better than masking tape does. This is called back masking when you mask from the back side of something to hand your paper on. "
eHow Article: How to Tape the Back of a Car for Painting