'96 Mustang Cobra convertible...in Mystic...

[Mopar2]

Very cool paint job..Interior color goes well with it.Nice build..

 

[Sport Suburban]

Very nice build. I have the same build planned and did a lot of reading about this paint on those cars. Seems you did too! I bought Scale Finishes Mistic paint. I can't wait to see how mine comes out but have a few others in front of it.

[Dennis Lacy]

While well aware of the Mystic Cobra’s it never occurred to me that it wasn’t available on Convertibles. It should have been because it looks killer. The whole model is very nicely done. The paint looks like you could dip your finger into it! You were very lucky to get your hands on the real deal. 

[KWT]

very nicely done

[slusher]

Beautiful Mustang!

[adamelvis]

When I saw that color in person for the first time, I was mesmerized! 

Great job on the paint !!

Adam

[AMT68]

Absolutely gorgeous. 

[TransAmMike]

Wow, that is  a beauty, great job!!

[tim boyd]

On 3/28/2023 at 7:31 PM, Mothersworry said:

Built as a "what if", as Cobra Convertibles were not available with Mystic paint. Wheels are finished with Alclad Chrome but a bit overdone to replicate polished aluminum.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MW....terrific build and conversion! 

As you may have heard, I was the 1/1 scale Ford SVT Sales and Marketing Manager and overall team leader when the 1996 SVT Mystic Cobra was announced and produced.  It was a really interesting project, as you might have guessed.  Team Mustang, Ford Dearborn Assembly, Ford Division, our SVT certified dealers, and of course, BASF all contributed to make this project a success.    I remember driving our SVT marketing team crazy with my insistence that they photograph the car in such a way to show the degree of color shift.  In the end, mission was accomplished, but I have to say your photos do a great job of doing that as well...

(For those of you unfamiliar with the SVT Mystic Cobra project, there is a whole passionate internet group these days who research, celebrate, and in some cases, collect/own these cars.  They have uncovered countless factoids about these cars, and while I wouldn't claim to know otherwise, some of them go well beyond my own understanding of the project at the time.  Including the info that Saleen ran a few cars before the SVT factory effort.  Not saying it didn't happen that way, just saying that i, and our SVT team to the best of my knowledge, did not know about this at the time.  And the stories about the paint being closely tracked for body shop repairs are true, although I do not recall hearing personally that it went to the extent of government agents being involved in overseeing body shop repairs...)   

Back to this model, MW you should be (and I suspect you are) tremendously proud of your replica of this rare and valued 1/1 scale project at Ford/SVT....TIM