Metamark MCX helps deliver a stunning homage to one of film’s best-known car chases…

"Racing is life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.” The words were immortalised by American actor, Steve McQueen, and have since been very widely quoted. McQueen’s film roles are also widely known as is his liking for fast cars and his talent for driving them. Steve McQueen the actor, was also a world-class racing driver.

If the world needed any evidence of McQueen’s capabilities behind-the-wheel, it was there for the taking about one hour into the 1968 film Bullitt. One of film’s best-known car chases sees the actor at the helm of a Ford Mustang GT Fastback for about ten of the most thrilling minutes ever to entertain cinema audiences.

The scene was shot around San Francisco and McQueen did a lot of the driving despite the involvement of a stunt team. Whether it was the film that made Steve McQueen the star he was is debated - many of his roles could claim that prize. The film’s chase though certainly did the Ford Brand and its brutal Mustang, no harm at all.

Bullitt Green is just one of the colours to be found between the covers of Metamark’s beautiful MCX swatch. Others include matches for some of the world’s most desirable automative OEM finishes and colours chosen after deep research by Metamark’s Woking based product development team located a stone’s throw from car maker McLaren.

Bullitt Green got its name and drew its inspiration from McQueen’s Mustang but the colour plays brilliantly on the panel work of any muscular looking car. Bullitt Green itself has become a star among its stablemates in the MCX Swatch.

Metamark was recently alerted by its Canadian distribution partner, Toronto headquartered ND Graphics, that one of its customers had delivered a noteworthy wrap involving MetaCast® MCX. The pictures we were sent emphatically confirmed it. A pristine, vintage Ford Mustang immaculately wrapped in MCX-67 Bullitt Green, Premium Cast MCX.

The wrap is a work of Bevin Klein and his company WrapPro. It was a badges-off work consuming a lot of Bevin’s time in meticulous preparation. The application is flawless and to say it flatters the iconic Bullitt Green colour is an extreme understatement. The car looks stunning and is testament to both WrapPro’s undoubted expertise and Metamark’s technical credentials in delivering a next-generation premium cast colour-change wrapping film.

The keen eyed will have spotted that the wrapped Mustang isn’t the exact model that shredded the roads around San Francisco in the 60s but none would argue that it’s a very appropriate homage that will stir the blood of anyone who sees it. It’s a simply brilliant example of what a modern wrapping material is capable of in the right hands and a beautiful thing to behold.