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Simply amazing work
It brings back playing with Hot Wheels. They had that Mopar shade.
Its probably the most unique MachE inside and out done by a “humble” owner on the planet. If dropping Near 4K on some plastic is ever truly “humble”
Enjoy that matey.
And don’t take crap from anyone who wants you to call it Kermit
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What., no green brisket? ??

Looks like you put a lot of work into the car. Go have fun with it! ??
 
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What., no green brisket? ??

Looks like you put a lot of work into the car. Go have fun with it! ??
Fun??? I’m tired and need to go to bed. Maybe fun will come tomorrow if they don’t need me at work.
 

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You got the dash piece wrapped!!

epic! I gave thought many times about wrapping my dash silver trim in my satin copper. You’ll have to update with how it holds up on the textured plastic trim.

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Pretty awesome. Glad to see someone truly enjoying the process of owning the car. Great job on the wheels, especially.
 


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You got the dash piece wrapped!!

epic! I gave thought many times about wrapping my dash silver trim in my stain copper. You’ll have to update with how it holds up on the textured plastic trim.

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You should also know that in order to get that trim piece out to wrap, you have to remove the big screen. It isn’t hard to do, but it is terrifying considering what one little goof could cost.
 
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Pretty awesome. Glad to see someone truly enjoying the process of owning the car. Great job on the wheels, especially.
Thank You. I spent a ton of time trying to decide what to do with the wheels. I knew I wanted some color but trying to decide how to implement it and how much color was something I pored over for way too long. Still not sure I picked the right amount of vinyl but this was my first idea and the wife, who hated it at first concept, agreed this was the best.
 

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Those of us that have been here for a while have long lamented the lack of a good color pallet available for our beloved Mustang Mach-E. My original order was for Carbonized Grey. When I got impatient a couple days later I was able to find a Shadow Black. Boring…. but I dressed it up and brought most of you on that journey with me. When I found a GT-PE it was Dark Matter Grey. Not exciting.

In 1969 there were 37 colors available, from Calypso Coral to Spanish Gold. There was Grabber Green, Blue, Yellow, and Orange. And of course there was the iconic Groovy Green. Why couldn’t Ford’s First environmentally friendly mustang come in Groovy Green. What’s more Groovy than protecting the environment by being GREEN in a totally awesome car. But DMG was available, so I went for it.

But….. I can’t leave anything alone. You all know that. So today I reveal Ghost-E the Grey Specter has undergone an identity change. Allow me to introduce:

The Green Goblin*** (named by my wife because apparently calling it the green one isn’t acceptable.)

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I found a shop in Fulton NY willing to wrap the car. Upward Graphics owner Malbert Delapena said he could do it and had an opening in a month. Everyone else was too busy to even give me date or their first opening was 6 months away. I know you’ll ask so I’ll get it out of the way and say I paid $3400 for the wrap and the stripes. I picked Avery Gloss Lime Green for the color. It’s as close to Groovy Green as I could get for commercially available wrap, taking into account that supply chain issues are present in vinyl too. And of course, I had to have stripes. The side stripes I ordered from AutoDesign.shop and the Upward Graphics folks put them on while they had the car.

While I was waiting for my turn at the wrap shop I bought some lime wrap and started playing with ideas myself. To accent the inside, I wrapped part of the dash.
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Around the Charging tray I bought the trim cover from AOSK and wrapped that. I also bought their door trim covers, but those didn’t wrap worth a damn. I went searching for a paint that matched the wrap. Turns out while I was aiming for somewhere around 1971 Grabber Lime or 1969 Groovy Green, Avery Gloss Lime is actually an exact match to 2019 Jeep HyperGreen. With the correct paint I painted the button covers. Which immediatley turned into A disaster as the paint didn’t stick. So I learned about painting plastics by sanding, using adhesive primer, then a plastic adhesive paint, finally topping with the color I really wanted. But the button covers match and all is good.

I also made a custom start button pusher.
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Simon at EV-Vida sold me the Mandolorian button cover designed to be flipped up before you can push your start button. I, instead, Painted it with DMG paint then added Grabber Lime stripes (I hadn’t yet found out about Jeep HyperGreen). I JB welded a screw inside the helmet and put a rubber stopper from a syringe on the end of the screw. Now I just push the helmet down a little and let it push my start button.

My next hair brained idea was to liven up the wheels. If I had an aero wheel cover, I could paint the covers to match. But I didn’t. Instead I had the OEM wheels to play with. I had them powder coated all black to get rid of the machined faces. Then I did a good old fashioned crayon rubbing of the faux spokes and gave the rubbing to a friend with one of those Cricut craft cutters. He cut some of my vinyl to lay over the spokes. I wasn’t sure how much color to the tires would be too much, so I decorated one wheel with each option, from all spokes black to all spokes lime.

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I had to wait to get the car back to see how much was too much. All black was boring, a little lime wasn’t enough and all lime was too much. Number three won (after confirming with the Mrs.) So I decorated up all four tires the same. I also swapped the center caps to the weighted spinning pony center caps that light up as sold by EV-Vida. I had to plastidip the chrome ponies on them while peeling the dip from the rest so the light will show through. I’ll probbaly never know if they look cool or not as I’ll never see the backlit ponies on my center caps while I drive by. But in my mind they’re cool. Oh, yeah, I also replaced the stock lug nuts with the bigger McGard black lug nuts.
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Toward the back I used the AOSK louvers I already had and highlighted them with some vinyl, after polishing off the red paint from their former life.

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My son painted the rear GT badge with the Jeep Hypergreen paint. And I added an Etsy 0.0 badge to show off my massive displacement (also painting the decimal point to match). My Spoiler got repurposed with some Lime wrap and black stripes to maintain the continuity though I kept the winglets black for a little contrast. Tailights were tinted before it went to wrap with Vivvid dark smoke. (Now I REALLY see the elephants)

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And new custom plates of course. I also did 2 coats of HALO ceramic coating for vinyl films when I got it home today. This thing is slick now with almost no friction left to the surface.

Lastly, I decided to brighten up my frunk too. I added vinyl to highlight to pony on the frunk lid.
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Now it’s all done. Well….. for now. Who knows what else may happen. But I’m loving my new Green EV. Some of you will hate it for being loud, and that’s OK. I like the irony of it being visually loud while audibly silent. And I’ve always loved neon lime as a color. I love the Mopar impact colors, bright greens, yellows and oranges. So I’ve made my Mustang more eye catching and had a lot of fun doing it. I’ve been waiting to get it back from the vinyl shop and share it with all of you.

I also made smoked a Brisket Flat today. It was delicious too.
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Haha I literally have my select in the shop doing something very similar. Will show you pics in a few days.

Same spoiler, almost same color, same type of looking wheels, and same louvers. I'll be joining your club soon.
 
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Thank You. I spent a ton of time trying to decide what to do with the wheels. I knew I wanted some color but trying to decide how to implement it and how much color was something I pored over for way too long. Still not sure I picked the right amount of vinyl but this was my first idea and the wife, who hated it at first concept, agreed this was the best.
Ended up with these wheels.

https://audiocityusa.com/shop/20-St...th-Lime-Green-Inner-Extreme-Concave-Rims.html

But man I love yours. Now I won't be the first weirdo haha jk.

But it does look sharp and unique.
 
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That is Awesome!!!! You didn’t want the 0.0 Litre badges on the side?
Nah. Going to do classic GT badges on the side I think. I’m exploring options for fender badging still. Waiting on a couple options to arrive.
 
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Ended up with these wheels.
Oh snap. Those are niiiice. I was just working with what I’ve got. But I love those wheels. Can’t wait to see what you put together.
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