The trend of "suede" paint on hot rods and custom cars has become more accepted in the last 20 years. At one time the look was regarded as a fad by some people—and a disagreeable fad by a few others.

Rags to Riches, our new project, was in crazy need of paint. Since we were in a time crunch and on a crappy budget, we called somebody we knew who could get this done in a rush. We called Nostalgic ...