A few nice auto body parts canada images I found:
COMPARED

Image by Mona Loldwoman (Look for the good)
What I have done since 1953, I have also done many other things,.but always came back to this.
Its Soooo much easier with digital technology.
For me, photography has never been only about what the camera sees, as much as what I see.
photo restoration, photo retouching, & photo enhancement
Oftentimes an image will suffer minimal damage, which might include fading or color changes, minor discoloration, shadows or minor stains or tears. While "restoration" often includes reconstruction of missing parts of an image,
"retouching" usually requires a less intense "cleanup" using the same techniques as "restoration."
Dictionary.com
Photo retouching – aka; Airbrush
Airbrushing has long been used to alter photographs in the pre-digital era. In skilled hands it can be used to help hide signs that an image has been extensively retouched or "doctored".
As a result of Stalin’s purges, and later destalinization, many photographs of officials from the periods show extensive airbrushing, often entire people have been removed. The term "airbrushed out" has come to mean rewriting history to pretend that something was never there.
The term "airbrushed" or "airbrushed photo" has also been used to describe glamour photos in which a model’s imperfections have been removed, or in which their attributes have been enhanced. The term has often been applied in a pejorative manner to describe images of unrealistic female perfection and has been particularly common in reference to pictures in Playboy, and later Maxim.
Using today’s digital imaging technology, this kind of picture editing is now usually done with a raster image editor, which is capable of even more subtle work in the hands of a skilled touch-up artist. This technique is still called airbrushing or photoshopping.
My Mentor
Frederick William Lawrence (1890-??) was a Canadian/American airbrush painter, and probably the father of realistic spray painting.
Formerly an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), he served with the Canadian Army in World War I, where he was severely wounded. After months of hospitalisation, he was shipped home to Canada. Once he fully recovered, he moved to Michigan, where he worked for Pontiac Motor Company, where he learned to finish cars and to operate a Duco spray gun.
Around 1930, he moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he worked as an auto body refinisher, and began to experiment with painting pictures using the spray gun during breaks. As he honed his skills, he was featured in various science magazines and on Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Lawrence began giving performances at automobile shows, spray painting realistic portraits and landscapes in less than an hour. As more airbrush artists began copying his techniques, however, the novelty of his work began to fade, and by World War II, Lawrence was one of thousands of commercial airbrush artists, and died in relative obscurity.
This is also why I disappear sometimes for days. I get completely absorbed into a project.
Now, you know another of my secrets.
In my photographs, I almost always tell when a photograph has become my vision….In the future I promise to.
0036a 194-
Overgrown car door

Image by srhiggins
Gladstone Avenue is a sketchy part of town. Lots of "just making it" shops and older houses with balconies set back only a sidewalk width from the street.
More gray than green.
The local auto body shop keeps a number of cars and their parts in a paved lot.
I imagine the pride and excitement their owners once felt.