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Women fixing cars? Why not?

Here is a great article about men and women working together in the automotive repair industry.  But the same is really true of almost any repair or manufacturing facility.  At least in the collision industry, there is a recent rise in female ownership, management and trained technicians. …

Autonomous Vehicle drives Coast-to-Coast

It has been said that the next big effect that technology will have on society will be robots, in one form or another.  How about riding to work inside one?  Most of you know that there has been a lot of research being done on the driverless car, or autonomous vehicle. …

Charley Hutton wins 50th Anniversary Ridler Award

Charley Hutton, noted custom car designer and painter, has been affiliated with PPG for the past several years.   He is known for his unique designs and excellent paint work.  These days he uses PPG’s Envirobase waterborne basecoat almost exclusively.  Accentuating his use of water and design, Charlie received the highly prestigious 2013 Ridler Award, now in it’s 5oth anniversary. …

What’s the Most Popular Car Color?

In the latest survey, there’s a new sheriff in town.  After 10 years, white has replaced silver as the most popular car color. Years ago it was various shades of teal – remember that?  And then the browns and greens of the 70′s? …

PPG Announces New Matte Clears

Matte colors are becoming more popular these days – notice anything different on football helmets?  Cars too, especially custom vehicles, are taking the plunge beyond just flat black to lo-sheen colors.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAMost often they were painted in single stage, so the protection of a clearcoat was not available, unless you experiment with flatting agent in standard clear and do it yourself. …

Waterborne primer is here!

Both PPG Envirobase and Aquabase Plus waterborne systems have released a new 1K primer!  Just mix 10% by weight with T494 or P980-5000 reducer and go!  For use on all popular automotive substrates (properly prepared): steel, aluminum, galvanized, E-coat, existing paint finishes and most plastics. …

Aluminum Cars are on the way

Auto manufacturers have always toyed with various body panels made of aluminum, but apparently it’s getting serious.  By 2015, a large percentage of vehicles around the world will have aluminum bodies, obviously to reduce the weight of a vehicle and make them more fuel efficient…..but not to make them less expensive. …

Photos & FAQs

We need pictures!  If you have photos of your work that you would like to display in our Photo Albums, send them to bstahmann@bensps.com (.jpg, .tif or .gif formats only please). You should be a Ben’s customer and obviously we prefer that the paint work was done in PPG or one of the systems that we sell.…