The more I work on these drive-in speaker restoration projects (and the more YouTube videos I make from these restoration projects), the more fun I have with them.
And this time, I went into the realm of color-changing paint.
Let me explain.
In 1998, Ford created a special hue called Mystic Chrome, a paint which changes from green to purple depending on how the sunlight hit it. The paint was only used for two Ford models, and only for one year each – the 1996 Mustang Cobra, and the 2004 Mustang Terminator SVT.
If you wanted Mystic Chrome for your car, well, you needed one of those two models, and you had to have the paint applied by a Ford technician.
Well, today there’s a spray-can version of that Mystic Chrome hue, and I purchased a can of it from an online retailer called TheSpraySource.com. And I used it on this vintage speaker that I purchased for $35 from a Craigslist seller.
The video will premiere today at 11:00 eastern, so tune in and enjoy.
Chuck The Writer 
Ahh, you poked a memory.
I bought a new Ford Ranger ~’98, painted with what was informally called “flip-flop” paint back then. Greenish blue to bluish green, depending on sunlight / cloud cover.
As nifty as it was, Latham Ford had to repaint the roof and hood a couple times. Bird crap made the paint bubble up.
I still laugh – their body shop’s initial line of defense was to sit me down for a chemistry lesson, stressing the importance of removing the crap right away. The dumb asses wound up eating the cost of all the necessary fixes.
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