“I went to all of the professional detailers that I know and asked them, Whose paint do you get the best results from?” he adds. Then, when he started his own shop and was ready to paint his first car, Foose wanted to use the best paint available. He later worked at many different shops with several different paint companies. He started working at his father’s company, Project Design, at age 7, where they used strictly BASF’s R-M paint. The auto designer was exposed to BASF paint at an early age. “That’s why I use BASF: I want the best.”īut the road to collaboration with the German chemical company initially required some effort on Foose’s part. “I want to do the best possible work I can do, and the only way to do that is to use the best materials out there,” he says. Foose mixed a custom warm silver, known as Mach Silver, and topped it with Glasurit 923-210 Low VOC Ultimate Clear to give the Mach One a “glamorous, fresh-off-the-line” look.įoose has been exclusively using BASF paint for years and he makes no secret about it.Ĭhip Foose signs autographs for fans inside BASF show booth at SEMA. He painted the entire car using BASF’s premium waterborne Glasurit 90 Line. “I didn’t want it to look like a custom car, but rather like a factory show car.” “I wanted it to be a much more elegant color, and the final appearance of the car, I wanted it to look the way that Ford could’ve built a Mustang,” says Foose. A darker satin color was used for the rear taillight panel and the front grille with the side stripes painted in a darker charcoal gray.
The base color of the car, the inside and the engine bay were all painted in a Mach Grey color. “It gives it those hips in the back and gives it that muscle-car feel,” Foose adds. The flatness of the ’71 stock rear quarters was replaced with quarters from a ’70 Mustang. This process entailed extending the wheelbase by three inches, pulling the wheels forward, and restructuring the front end completely with new strut towers and a cleaned-up engine bay. His first goal was to make the luxury car look more like a “muscle car,” he said. “My first thought was, Why ’71? That’s not the most exciting body part, but it’s also a great challenge,” Foose explains. The legendary restoration expert’s latest work of art, the 1971 Mach Foose Mustang, was based on the 1971 “Eleanor Mustang,” a vehicle that Foose previously built for the film Gone in 60 Seconds.ĭoctor Honda out of Japan approached the car designer about building the vehicle. Foose has been exclusively using BASF paint for years and he makes no secret about it. Foose's 1971 Ford Mach One Mustang was on display at the Las Vegas trade show.
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