Cotroneo has no patience for stock Harleys, with their cushy hand-clutch transmissions and factory paint jobs.

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To try to keep up with demand, it offers the truck only in white to save the time it takes to change colors in the factory paint shop.

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Word from the factory is that two-tone paint colors on the exterior and bright, bold interior leather hues are the most popular requests right now.

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Of the 20 or so hours that elapse from start to finish when a Camry, Solara or Avalon is built at Toyota's Georgetown factory, half are spent in the paint shop.

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They engineer and build plants, and make factory machinery for the automotive industry, in particular paint shops.

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While the paint shop is as modern as any U.S. factory's, workers wearing respirators (but no eye protection) still use small paintbrushes, rather than automated tools, to slather sealant on critical weld spots.

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The paint shop is the most expensive, and most polluting, aspect of any automotive factory, and is often the source of production bottlenecks.

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Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.

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