2004 Mystichrome Cobra

[mcate]

New owner brought me this 04 Mystichrome. Car has 151k miles on it, & the paint has, shall we say, led a rough life. This was probably the most abused & neglected paint I've ever had to deal with. Not just swirls, but scratches everywhere. The deck lid looked like somebody just rubbed it back & forth with a ton of grit on the rag. I couldn't see a lot of the imperfections until the 1st pass with my WS21 & Menz FG400. I had to hand-rub several scratches with Poorboy's SSR3. I spent 8 hrs correcting it, & I probably got 80 - 90% right. Finished it off with SF4000 & a coat of PL sealant. The new owner will treat it right, including getting the front bumper skin repainted.

[rms64]

Great job- love me a kenne bell supercharger!

[01GreyStangGT]

Neat color!

[haris300]

Nicely done! Hard to believe that thing has 151k after what you've done to it. I bet it sounds great too.

[rbss]

Looks great. I think we need to see more pics. :awesome:

[mcate]

Thanx, guys. Here's a few more. I can't begin to say how badly this paint was hammered. 3"-4" scratches everywhere, each one taking 15-20 minutes to rub out. So many of them that I kept asking myself how they could've gotten there?

[.brian.]

I absolutely love those Mystichrome Cobra's. Great work.

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Nicely done. Love that color.

[Justin at Final Inspection]

Well done! Great color!

[fly07sti]

Great job. Such a fun car to drive.

[Kamakaz1961]

Beautiful work!

[mcate]

Thanx again, everyone. 10:30 pm here & I just re-did the deck lid because under lights I saw some swirls. He would've probably been happy with it, but I wasn't. It's finally done & the owner is coming to pick it up in the morning. I don't know if there are any other Mystichrome Cobra's in the Indy area. They only made a little over 1000 of them. I haven't seen any around town. A buddy used to have a 96 Mystic Cobra (which I also detailed) but he sold it. Hopefully I'll see this one around some local car shows.

[blown03]

Nice Job , looks sweet . I have one I am doing in 2 weeks , after the gentleman saw my Black Terminator he asked can I make his look the same lol , anywho Beautiful Job . Reading you went back over the deck lid cause you weren't happy speaks volumes to your character IMO . Keep up the Great Work !

[mcate]

Nice Job , looks sweet . I have one I am doing in 2 weeks , after the gentleman saw my Black Terminator he asked can I make his look the same lol , anywho Beautiful Job . Reading you went back over the deck lid cause you weren't happy speaks volumes to your character IMO . Keep up the Great Work !

Thanx! Yeah, folks see my black Shelby at shows & ask me if I can make their cars look like that. I don't know if you're on the SVT Performance group on Facebook, but a guy on there asked if anyone close to him (northern Indiana) did paint correction. He said a shop up there wanted to charge him $700. I told him, depending on the condition of the car, I would do it for way less. He thanked me, but didn't want to drive all the way down here. Anyway, this guy with the Mystichrome saw the thread & my Shelby pics on my FB page, & asked me to do his. Plus he has a buddy with a black 2013 GT500 that wants his done.

[oldmodman]

If I had known that Ford was going to produce the Cobra in 04 with Mystichrome I would have waited until then to buy mine.

I may even get a second Cobra if I can find a stock, unmolested, really low mileage Mystichrome.

That blend of colors sure does look great.