How to Tape a Car Hood Before Painting

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods, and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now Tony's going to prepare to paint the top side of the deck lid on the 1963 Impala SS convertible. He's already shot the underside of the deck lid and sanded the topside. He masked it for the paint on the bottom side, but we always shoot the underside and then sand the topside, so you get any residual over-spray off of the topside. He's masking it all really carefully because you don't want the paint from the topside to blow through anywhere and make a mess on the underside of it. These are the tail light holes he's masking here. Guess my photographer's getting pretty artsy on us here. So he masks the backside of it, keeps everything from blowing through. Since it's already been painted there it's nice and clean and it holds the tape real well. We use the green masking tape, that's what our guys have found is best. The biege and the blue have other properties. Now he's going to hang a skirt to keep it from blowing underneath."