A new super-white color of paint is so bright you might just need shades. Developed by scientists at Indiana’s Purdue University, the new whitest white acrylic paint reflects 95.5 percent of ...

Acrylic lacquer was the primary paint formulation used by General Motors for the majority of the production years in which classic Corvettes were manufactured, serving until the early-'80s.

These vintage paint jobs were almost certainly the result of either acrylic lacquer or enamel paint technology. Acrylic lacquers dominated from the late 1940s until the 1960s.

So, we decided to paint the top of our smoking-hot black Cherokee white to see if we could cool the inside down a bit. We ended up using under $40 worth of paint and materials, and it took us less ...