Mystichrome Ford Maverick Is Probably the Only One We’ll Ever See
This Mystichrome Ford Maverick was incredibly expensive to create, but it was totally worth the cost and effort.
It sounds strange to some, but there are some silly things that all car people know as soon as they hear them. That includes obscure terms like “Mystichrome,” which we Blue Oval fans immediately recognize as one of the coolest paint colors ever offered on a production vehicle – the 2004 Ford Mustang Cobra. Due to its incredible expense and the complicated process required to put it down, Mystichrome only wound up on around 1,000 Cobras, didn’t stick around for long, and these days, still isn’t easy or even relatively affordable to spray. Thus, this Mystichrome Ford Maverick is likely the only one we’ll ever see, even though it looks simply amazing.
This Mystichrome Ford Maverick is the brainchild of Paul Montgomery, who owns Eastside Auto Spa in Cincinnati, Ohio. His reasoning behind this project is pretty simple, as he recently explained to The Drive – he always loved he color, and he thought it would look good on a mini-truck. Problem is, getting one’s hands on the special color-shifting paint isn’t exactly easy – in fact, Ford requires one to own a Cobra painted in that hue before they’ll sell you some.
As is usually the case, however, the aftermarket has a solution – in this case, Stek Dynoprism, which is a mostly transparent clear bra that has metal flakes in it, though when it’s sprayed on a vehicle, it looks purple from certain angles. The colors change depending on what sort of paint it’s applied to as well, which in this case, just so happens to look just like the legendary Mystichrome. Judging from this information, one might expect to see a rash of Mystichrome clones running around in future months, but that probably won’t be the case.
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Problem is, like that famous color-shifting hue, Stek Dynoprism isn’t cheap, either – it would cost around $8,500 to replicate this look, according to Montgomery, which is pretty expensive by anyone’s measure and nearly half the price of a new base Maverick. It’s also produced in limited quantities by the manufacturer, for obvious reasons – it’s a tedious and pricey thing to make in the first place. Regardless, it’s hard to deny that the results here are simply amazing, and if we had the coin, we’d certainly do exactly the same thing to our own pickups.
Photos: Paul Montgomery
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