Mad Max - Last of the V8 Interceptor Takes Off!

[rhjernigan]

what manufactor name ford chev???????? or what they all look alike!?!?!?!

[PatrolmanDark]

@rhjernigan - That is an Australian Ford Falcon XB.

[tapsomebong14]

@PatrolmanDark isnt the one in the original film an xa? or is it an xb with xa headlights?

[PatrolmanDark]

@tapsomebong14 - Nope, same as this one, an XB with XC-like headlights. Though the headlights look like XCs, the creator says they used something very similar but they weren't actually XCs. I can't tell the difference.

[bradfordlad9999]

i will give u 150.000 pound for it

[WhappyFeets]

I love watching the nose lurch skyward on the shift!

[glgnda123]

nice car but not the last. havent you ever been to silverton australia where it was filmed they have like 3

[PatrolmanDark]

@glgnda123 - Haven't you ever seen the movie, where the refer to the car as the "Last of the V8 Interceptors"? That's the reason for the name, not that this car is the only one remaining. :)

[xbfalcon351coupe]

@hardyboyzrko XB coupes aren't all that common, mock ups even less so. They are worth big bucks these days - mine has no mad max parts or anything, just a relatively stock 351 coupe but I get offered big bucks at least 2 - 3 times a week...

[Notria77]

Yes realy this car don't have price this machine is an invaluable this is a car to pass from generation to generation.

Thanks.

[PatrolmanDark]

@Notria77 - I have no future generation, so I may eventually sell it, but the price will be quite high.

[manzrnet]

@PatrolmanDark Don't sell it man, it's an astonishing car!!!!

[PatrolmanDark]

@manzrnet - Thank you. I'm only talking about some time in the far future. I won't live forever, and I'd rather carefully pick the next steward, rather than will it to somebody.

[5906adam]

also, Pennywise100, I do have an XA falcon coupe I would consider selling, make me an offer. It is a solid body with minimal rust, no engine or gearbox, But I could probably dig one up. Let me know if you are interested

[rekradxd]

have owned 3 ford coupes and building 1 for a mate love em ,

[hauntedmemorie]

theres a dude in shelbyville Indiana who was making interceptor clones and his falcon is featured on peter bartons mad max website....he filled in the roof on an actual factory sunroof car...one of like 15 i think...took it to carlisle for the ford show and the aussie owners cussed his butt out for ruining a rare care..he was supposed to keep making clones but i dont know if he does anymore

[gewizz2]

i love madmax and the way they dont ever clean their vehicles! i cant wait to get my own piece of black vehicle "madmax style" im getting a bmw 3series coupe! blackof coarse, oneday, and i will never ever clean it! unless its ilegally dirty

[19DeSSa77]

спасибо, порадовал!!!

[ThePennywise100]

can anybody tell me "WHO CAN A BUY THIS CAR !!!!!!!!" pls i have money and time to make it to a interceptor

[PatrolmanDark]

This car is not for sale, except at a ridiculously high price. It is already an Interceptor.

[timmay301]

@PatrolmanDark so it IS for sale. you are not worthy of it then, mate. why don't you give it to me, i won't sell it at ANY price.

[PatrolmanDark]

@timmay301 - Quite wrong, sir. Everything has a price. For example, if I were offered enough money that would allow me to pry Number 1 away from the museum in England, have it shipped to Australia to be properly restored and brought back to running condition and shipped to me here, I'd take that offer.

[Notria77]

@PatrolmanDark i wold like to pay for this car 90.000$ cash if you want.

so ??????

I'searching for something like this for a long time.

[PatrolmanDark]

@Notria77 - Thank you for the offer, sir, but this car means so much more to me.

[ThePennywise100]

ye i know but i mean not your car is see that is an interceptor but i search for the ford focal xb gt i know who will sell this car :D ?

[pr0ph3cy92]

AHAHAHAHAHA sorry, love the American ignorance, do some research :) An actual XB GT will set you back a lot already, and if you somehow manage to get one and RUIN it by making it a relica of this (no no, the interceptor is win, but... its like taking a superbird, and changing it to the charger from the fast and the furious/fast and furious, get me?), i will hunt you down and kill you with my own 2 hands... Find a wrecked xb falcon coupe, and make a replica from that... sheesh... sorry :)

[fruitman13]

@pr0ph3cy92 wanker

[pr0ph3cy92]

@fruitman13 tard

[fruitman13]

@pr0ph3cy92 That`s Mr. Tard to you.Wanker

[pr0ph3cy92]

@fruitman13 your pretty cool arent you, i pick this guy up (that doesnt have a clue) on what he said (and i do), so you call me a wanker?

[fruitman13]

@pr0ph3cy92 So what you are trying to say is even though you come across like a wanker you`re not one at all?

[pr0ph3cy92]

@fruitman13 alright so that first comment was a bit harsh, but still. The guy wanted to know where he could get an xb gt so he could ruin it and make it into an interceptor. Making a regular xb coupe into an interceptor is fine, but an actual gt is just wrong.

[fruitman13]

@pr0ph3cy92 It`s not a good feeling to have somebody tell you that they think you are stupid.Giving information to somebody is is more acceptable when not calling somebody names.Also using the phrase American ignorance when talking about one dumb ass makes it sound like you think that way about all Americans

[pr0ph3cy92]

@fruitman13 Well, sorry if I offend you- but it is pretty common, on the internet at least, for Americans to be very self centred and ignorant. Not saying all Americans are like this, not even all Americans ive come into contact with in cyberspace (I also have xbox live) are like this.

[253UC]

@ThePennywise100 If you live in Australia you can buy an XB coupe to build as a replica....

[rocketdock11]

@ThePennywise100  that's an australian ford falcon. you can buy the original car, and after you can make it to that.

[darklordbaf]

that car is pure orgasm!

[Shanethefilmmaker]

it is possible to actually make the car as turbo charged as the one in the movie it is simply just not street legal.

[PatrolmanDark]

I think that might vary depending on what country you're talking about. In the USA, where this car is now, it's totally street legal. And - it's supercharged, instead of turbocharged (which uses exhaust to force induction rather than the belt used for a supercharger).

[R4MMV8SRT10]

@PatrolmanDark those tanks on the back are they replica or functional?

[PatrolmanDark]

@R4MMV8SRT10 - They made them the same as the other two, you wouldn't put fuel in them. They're 40 gallons each, which would be 520 pounds located very high and behind the rear axle. Not the best plan from a handling perspective. :)

[W1zzar3]

@Shanethefilmmaker movie car was supercharged, but it was fake supercharger, it was just stock interceptor rebuilt for post apocalyptic looks

[SgtMustang]

@Shanethefilmmaker The car is not turbo charged. It's supercharged.

[XxcoomiekidxX]

@Shanethefilmmaker

yes there are these cars over here in australia with turbo conversions

thought it would be a shame concidering

but yeh that us law sucks

its times like this u realise "its good to be australian"

[demorgus]

so the button operated blower is or isnt real because an automotive technology book says that there is clutch operated controlable supers

[PatrolmanDark]

That book would be incorrect, starting with superchargers used in the early 1900s by Mercedes, I think it was.

[PatrolmanDark]

I'm sorry, I totally misread your comment. The book is correct. My mistake.

[sheeplead]

is that a real aussie?

[PatrolmanDark]

Yes indeed, a gennie XB.

[cameranasss]

that cars bad ass

[Rabbitwarren666]

thats not the car from the 1st film. no front spoiler and the huge 200ltr fuel tanks r in the back.

not bad at all.

[Joethbob]

The Cavanaugh flight museum at addison airport in addison texas, where this is has a Delorean in one of the hangers, hidden behind an F4 phantom II

[450hp202turbo]

a friend recently found a xb 2 door shell rusty as.$50 dollars

he has a hot xb black coupe ! and thinks this could be fixed i keep saying but the rust the rust .you could make a mm car though as the wheel archers gone i thinkhis dreaming lol"

[Sodiumreactor]

They had a Road Warrior setup at the Movieland Wax Museum (before it closed) with a flat black firebird as the car. I always smiled when I saw it, cause most people had no clue about what the car was. You can order something called the "Mad Max Burger" at the Outback Steakhouse which is a rockin hamburger, not on the menu anymore, but you can still order it if you know :)

[Sodiumreactor]

This is a great thread!! all about MM and RW. People keep talking about the garage scene. There is something about that scene I remember reading. In the scene the engine has a yellow bucket sitting over something they didnt want you to see. I dont remember where I read it, but supposedly it was hiding whatever was making the blower run. Maybe an air pump or something. I do know that it wasnt a real blower setup, because you cant make it work as an on/off unit. Its always on. Cool car man!

[PatrolmanDark]

Thank you, sir! It's a big yellow funnel. It's not hiding the drive mechanism, it's somewhat disguising the fact that there's no intake manifold bolted to the bottom of the blower case. You can see how the blower is driven. The big belt comes down around a smaller pulley. There's a thin belt that runs from the smaller pulley over onto the air-conditioning compressor (towards the right side of the screen).

[Paintedawg]

Omg, I always wanted that car.

[PatrolmanDark]

Me too, it was my dream car from the day I saw it in the theater in 1981...

[ZippoMontefiore]

Fantastic!

[PatrolmanDark]

I thank you, sir. It's my favorite Falcon. :)

[TheManHere1]

Nice Road Warrior version on the Falcon. Love the raw grit look.

[motorsicl]

Is the blower functional? I love the movie but everytime I watch the movie I can't help to wonder if the blower is functional. Looks almost like it's just sitting there for show.

[Ebaum744]

in the movie, the blower was just for show, but you can hear the high pitched whine in this video.

[1001Hobbies]

Even at Barton's site it is mentioned that the blower was run by an electric motor, yet when watching the movie in the underground garage scene you can plainly see it is run from a belt that comes off the AC compressor 2-groove clutch pulley and goes to the modified tensioner pulley that drives the blower. There are many inaccuracies reported about this car. Trust ultimatemadmaxcar, he had dinner with the builder and can prove it.

[1000hpHONDA]

true

[kdwildman]

@1001Hobbies The latest DVD has extras that talks about the car and the "making of". It was a Weiand blower ran by an electric water pump motor and was never functional or clutch driven.

[1001Hobbies]

@kdwildman Of course I have seen the latest DVD many many times in my research, especially the extras. It was not clutch driven. When "off" the belt from the AC compressor was removed. When "on" that belt was replaced. To see the blower begin to spin they merely started the engine. Notice the composition of the shot; plain blue sky and the engine rocks back and forth.

[hannercymreig]

To stop the arguements: CAR -15 years ago there was little OZ/US in regards to what was/was not on the car/ film. As mentiomned below, Aussies told you what you wanted to hear & over the years I've heard a lot of BS. Also, MANY DIFFERTENT CUTS of the film have been released & the content of each if different: soundtracks (i.e. no heavy Aussie accents/slang in US release), footage (i.e.rape scene), CAMERA ANGLES, etc. I've seen 3 different versions of the same film title. So why argue?

[PatrolmanDark]

For Mad Max they released a dubbed version. They never made a dubbed version of The Road Warrior. We argue because over the years there's been lots of misinformation. Now that we have access to the people who were there, we're correcting the false information, like that there were 6 or 17 Interceptors (I've heard both numbers), that it was an AMC AMX, That it had a Pontiac engine, and other things that have been mistakenly repeated over the years.

[midnightblue72]

Pontiac engine????? LMAO, Kinda like the idiots who tell me my 73 Falcon GS here in the states is a Torino from Canada.

Arguing with people like this is like talking to a brick with lips.

351C, nothing less, nothing more.

[hannercymreig]

I have, somewhere, a photo of the car on display with the Pontiac engine sitting in the engine bay and it has the blower/injection shown in the first film. Since I do not live in OZ I have to go by the info I was given. And by the way, they are already "stuffed" they are Aussie motorheads.

[PatrolmanDark]

Produce that photo, you get a free car and house. Go ahead.

[NKSgsr]

hard to find. alot of these cars get found by the company or companys that build the mad max replicas...

but im sure theres some alright ones around.

maybe.

[dekker1330]

wow dude thats a dream to have that car is awesome!!!

[bigsteely84]

i dont think this is the real car. i went to silverton (australia) where mad max was filmed and seen it. the person that ownes the hotel has the car.

[PatrolmanDark]

As it says in the description, this is the Interceptor that is featured in the documentary "Back 2 The Max". And the person who owns the hotel does not have the remaining movie car, the Cars of The Stars Museum in London owns the car, you can see it on their website.

[ProUser07]

Expand my automotive knowledge, what type of car is this?

[PatrolmanDark]

It's an Australian Ford Falcon XB. Ford of Australia does it's own designs and builds its own cars, so they get cool stuff we never see in the USA. The Falcon is the rear-drive V8 musclecar of Oz, similar to the USA Mustang Mach 1.

[ProUser07]

Cool, I hope to see one in person one day. Did you restore it?

[PatrolmanDark]

No sir, I just keep it in really good shape, I drive it at least once a week, change the oil, and keep on top of the maintenance. It's a historic car, and I'm the curator.

[Davobeff]

Here in australia we have the best muscle cars in the world.

[PatrolmanDark]

You definitely have some of the greatest, all home-grown! Plus the ones that have been shipped there from the USA. What a place that must be to live!

[EffAreOhhGee]

I <3 homegrown! XD

[hannercymreig]

Original car was a XB series Australian Falcon, GT trim level. Underneath it shares the North American chassis/floorpan of the 66-70 Fairlane but w/ RHD, Aussie built rear axle. Styling created at Ford studios, Dearborn with minor changes from OZ Ford. Had "Liddo" not taken over Ford and forced the end of the "hip wing" designed Fords (Maverick, Torino, etc. replaced by the box styling Liddo favored, i.e. Fairmont)the Aussie Falcon styling might have been applied to an American product.

[jamesthq]

how much for a ford falcon Im gonna hop online and see how much I can get one for but still can imagine insurance is stupidly expensive for me at 22. Im looking at a Skyline/Toyota Supra/Audi TT or a muscle car.

[PatrolmanDark]

A new one or a used one? In Oz or the USA? The prices vary according to condition, but they do tend to be pretty darned high.

[jamesthq]

yeah just had a look and yup lol there's that idea out the window! Not only that but if one breaks down your pretty much looking at a stupid cost for parts as I'd be using it for daily use. Im very tempeted on buying a Golf R32 which is an amazing piece of kit.

[XA351GT]

I'm not so sure about the floorpan sharing. A Fairlane /Torino is 117 " in wheelbase a full 6" longer than the Falcon and over 1 1/2' longer in total length. I've owned a 70 Torino and currently own a 72 XA and they chassis at the firewall is different from any US Ford I have ever seen.

[hannercymreig]

I'm speaking form an engineering standpoint (my past emplovment was tool & die for OEM stamped parts). The chassis/floorpan basic design is the same for various Ford products of various wheelbase lengths. My XC floorpan doesn't look any different when viewed from under the car then a U.S. Fairlane/Falcon/Comet of the late 60's. Mechanically parts except for the RHD stering are a direct interchange. And yes, the firewall stamping is "different" on RHD then LHD.

[hannercymreig]

Currently there are about a dozen replicas of the car in North America. No two of them are copies as the details vary (example: Some have gold bars across the headlamp openings, some black, some have clear lenses). Last I heard there were a few replics in OZ and NZ too. The "original" car (watch the movie close and you will see there were several stand ins) is reported to be in London.

[PatrolmanDark]

They had two cars. They started with 1 for MM1, then made a duplicate (no windshield wipers) for use in MM2, which they crashed. Car Number one is in the Cars of the Stars Museum in London, between Magnum PI's Ferarri and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Then this one was made for promotions and the documentary "Back 2 The Max", using original molds. It's exact.

[stress5000]

Whats the copyright thing all about? not to copy the car or that film clip lol

[PatrolmanDark]

It would be the film clip, sir.

[kkhonda10]

nice car

[Donpatch88]

it kinda looks like a delorean :) anyway i am not that good with car stuff lol =p

[PatrolmanDark]

Well, yes, it has 4 tires, just like a Delorean. And..um...a license plate at the back. :D

[roadwarrior001]

Thx.I found that picture on google and it was such a nice pic that i decided to use it on my profile.

[roadwarrior001]

Awesome car !!!

[PatrolmanDark]

Thank you, sir! If you're ever in Texas, give me a holler. I'm proud to see that you've chosen as your background on your page a picture of my car taken out at the shooting location for MM2: The Road Warrior.

[PatrolmanDark]

The Interceptor will be appearing at the Warbirds Over Addison show this Saturday, 05/31/08, at the Cavanaugh Museum of Flight, from 10am to 5pm. I'll be there early in the day to chat with anybody.

[BIKERJAKE74]

Wait Lewisville? I grew in Highland Village and never saw that damn car in Lewisville!!!DAMN I have to see it now!!!That is so damn cool!!!

[PatrolmanDark]

Heh...just give me a holler when you'll be in the area, I'm often out on the roads on the weekend.

[BIKERJAKE74]

thank you very much i'll do that one weekend.

[Meggadezz]

I would take that car, if I could choose from every car ever built yet and if I don't have to worry about patrol.

[colemauro]

There was only one car at Mad Max I and it was suppose to be destroyed after the movie, thing that never really happened. Then it was used in Mad Max 2.There were 2 cars in Mad Max 2. The original one and another to make the shots with Mel driving it...

This second car was the one used in the crash...

The original one is currently at a museum, in UK i think.

All the Max Max car's you see world wide are replicas, some of them built with the exact same moldes has the original one...

[PatrolmanDark]

That is correct, sir. As I explain on some of my other videos, this one was built later by Scott Smith and some of the blokes who built the first two. Used for promotion and the documentary, Back 2 The Max, available on DVD.

[hannercymreig]

There were five (5) cars rolled before the film crew was able to obtain the image shown in the film. Note that car has a g=chrome rear bumper, not black. That car is seen with the crushed top sitting outside of Gas Town as the Interceptor arrived (in tow).

[PatrolmanDark]

I'm sorry, that is just incorrect. They only built two (2) cars for the movies. That's it. They rolled one (1). The car in the ditch outside the refinery is the dual-wheeled Landau crashed in the first scene. You get a great look at it when Max is carrying in the badly wounded fella at 25:46, with the dualies and rebar wheelguards. Another giveaway is the bumper is NOT an XB bumper.

[PatrolmanDark]

To be more specific, the chrome bumper on the Landau is from a 1959 Pontiac Bonneville, not an XB bumper. There's a picture at tinyurl com, followed by 8pofqu.

[hannercymreig]

The VHS version I own shows the Landau as you mentioned AND the wrecked black car w/ chrome bumper sitting just outside the gate of Gas Town. The same scene in my nephew's DVD version has different footage/camera angle and the black car can't be seen. Too many different cuts of the film have been released to argue "this is" "this isn't". As far as I am concerned the car was nothing but a prop and worthless in the real world since what most people think they see is nothing but movie "magic".

[frequentfiler]

I don't believe those are different cam angles you're seeing but the difference releases using the full wide screen and non-wide. BTW, EVERY reliable source I've seen (people from the film crew, the guy who MADE it) all agree it's a 351 Cleveland. In MM2, it's a different blower mounted higher, but still the 351C

[hannercymreig]

What's bothering me is that your sources HAVE NOT told you of the original car being on a "carnie" tour of OZ (photo I have is from that tour, the car being displayed in open front tent in shopping area, Pontiac enigine installed), that enigine was pulled due to non payment to the builder. Later the car took on an underfunded whirlwind tour of Japan. Why doesn't your source mention this as it was noted in several OZ mags during the late 80's?

[PatrolmanDark]

We're aware of that tour of Oz, pictures are on Peter's site. Up above you're being offered an Interceptor of your own and a lovely house, valued at 400,000 dollars if you can produce that picture with a Pontiac engine. Show a picture, get a free house and car. I know the man making the offer, he's an honorable man. I'd take the word of the man who built the car, Murray Smith, over magazine articles from the 80s, like the book I have which tells me my car is an American Motors AMX.

[hannercymreig]

I was Texas 2 years and want nothing to do with that horible state. Have no use for "LOOK AT ME" replica movie prop. Offer  rebuildable XB-XC coupe/ute,fresh aero package I'll take the time to go through material. Am VERY aware of Barton's site, I wrote most of original copy (note remarks about end of the Aussie van era, my words.) If you would have admit earlier that you heard of the car being an AMX, etc. this arguement won't have started.

[PatrolmanDark]

Um, it doesn't matter what you think of Texas, the house you're being offered isn't here. You can sell it and buy one where you like. Same with the car. And I'm sorry, you totally lost me with me about the AMX.

[TehDeceptikon]

Wow... Thanks for basing your opinion on the largest and most diversely inhabited state in the Union on your interactions with a very limited number of people.

Go die in a fire prude.

[PatrolmanDark]

Ok, I checked my VHS copies and DVD copies. They all agree. During that scene, no cars to the right, the Landy on the left side, a 4 door about 50 feet further away on the left. That's it. I also checked the establishing shots. That's it. They only built 2 cars, not the 6 you claim. The people who built them are not mis-remembering, they're right. Peter Barton's site is also a good source, with info from the people involved.

[hannercymreig]

Who said anything about the cars being on the "right"? Who said anything about 6 cars?

[hannercymreig]

"Patrolmandark", I'm trying to figure out who you are since you are in Texas. Had a brush with the Texans who import the cars years ago/quickly got fed up with their"Look at us, we have what you don't" attitudes. "Rained on their parade" when they found out I was driving OZ Ford in US long before them. Are you one of THAT group?I'm seeing too many Yanks trying to take money from the uninformed, trying to pass off 302C cars as 351C, etc. The typical OZ Falc V-8 was 302C, NOT 351C!

[PatrolmanDark]

I'm sorry you didn't like a couple of people who live in Texas. I'm not one of those you're talking about. There's more than 20 or 30 people in this state, some of them are different from each other, with different attitudes. Some wouldn't feel sad to find out that other people drove OZ Fords in the USA before them. I don't run this car as a business, it's strictly a hobby and a labor of love. Um, hurray for the typical OZ Falc V8?

[PatrolmanDark]

Nobody did, I was being thorough in looking on both the "left" and "right", covering both directions that the moat goes. You mentioned six cars above where you said "There were five (5) cars rolled before the film crew was able to obtain the image shown in the film.". I added the one that they took on tour to the 5 you claim they rolled.

[Exciter1000]

Kick it in the guts barry! Shut the gate on this one max,its the ducks guts!! ..See you later goose,its been a pleasure! (opens mouth,slaps the back of the head twice)

[adoniscomplex]

LOL!!!

[krootman12]

Listen man, He Sings and I tap Dance

[bob10023]

hahaha, I love this movie!

[lisalcool]

btw, coolest car ever!

[lisalcool]

Is the blower on you car fully functional? Does it go on and off as well? I´ve read on some fan sites that the car in the first movie didn´t have the blower really attached and working, it was just there to make noise and spin on and off.

[gamesbok]

James Bond's Bentley Continental S2 had a magnetic clutch, like an A/C unit, so the blower could be switched on and off.

[hannercymreig]

Non functional on MOVIE car, just a blower case that covered factory 4 bbl carb, drive pulley powered by electric motor. HOWEVER, the engine in the first movie was a PONTIAC which is simply sitting in the engine bay (look close at the images, height of the engine vs scenes showing the car on the road). Engine sounds also dubbed into sound track, not from car shown. Car was displayed wit the Pontiac after the film was shot. Electric clutches were used on WW II aircraft, nothing new.

[hannercymreig]

Further, seems everyone fails to notice that the drive pulley is never turning in scenes showing the whole car and surrounding area. The two scenes showing the pulley starting and stopping are a close-up of the car SITTING STILL. The electric motor which turns the belt/pulley was mounted just under the bonnet ("hood" to you Yanks). That red knobbed switch in the copckpit is from a dump truck (activates the system that tilts the bed). It wasn't connedcted to anything in the movie, just a prop.

[PatrolmanDark]

The blower is spinning in several running-down-the-road shots. But yea, the start/stop scenes were shot with the belt on the lower pully, just starting and stopping the engine. The red switch is actually a differential switch.

[PatrolmanDark]

Nope. It's a 351 Cleveland. Not too much point in pulling out the Ford 351C the car started with to drop in a GM motor.

[hannercymreig]

Got my info from several not connected Aussies who remember the car when it was being displayed by the private owner after first film engine was a Pontiac time and set up for a boat. Two Aussies pointed out Pontiac features from garage sceen/engine . I own a XC Falc and engine does not sit that high in the engine bay.

What's a "differential" switch?

[PatrolmanDark]

I got my info from the guys who built the 2 cars used. And I'm looking at the movie, right now. I own the Interceptor and it does sit that high. Looking at the garage scene right now, I see that their blower is powered by a belt off the A/C compressor driving the bottom pulley of the blower rig. Same as how they built mine. Some big diesels have a two-speed differential (the big bit in the middle of the rear axles). A diff-switch allows you to change it.

[hannercymreig]

My information came from people actually involved with the filming. Not going to argue with you, Aussies tend to tell you what ever you "want to hear". I've been involved with the Yanks/Aussies who have had the Mad Max site on the internet for years and they have tracked down ecactally where every secene was shot, etc. (I'm the one who pointed then to Steve!) Also have a photo of the car wit the Pontiac on display after the first film. Same engine.

Same switch as dump unit, air controled.

[PatrolmanDark]

My info comes from the people who built and drove the cars, and filmed it. The difficulty involved in fitting a Pontiac engine into a Ford, making custom motor-mounts, mating it to the 4-speed toploader, etc, it just doesn't make sense when the car had, and has, a Ford engine in it. I'd like to see the picture in question.

The switch is electric...maybe they also used it for dump units.

[ultimatemadmaxcar]

Murray Smith owned the car until they bought it from him for the second film. He kept the car as payment for what he did on the film and I'm proud to say that I have a copy of a pic of the car sitting at his house....again, tell you're friends to give their head a shake

[ultimatemadmaxcar]

show me a pic of the ACTUAL car and I will give you my replica and my house ($400,000 combined value) I've sat and had dinner with Murray Smith who BUIOLT the car for the movie....it had a 351 in from the factory and it stayed that way....the budget did not allow for many mods. They even borrowed the blower and injector. I've seen Murrays personal collection of behind the scenes pics and NO pontiac engine anywhere in site....tell your buddies to get stuffed

[PatrolmanDark]

You had dinner with Murray Smith? My envy knows no bounds!!

[PatrolmanDark]

In between Mad Max and Mad Max 2, Max cut the front spoiler off to make it easier to drive on the rought roads of the outback. The low-hanging air dam as seen in Mad Max would have been ripped right off.

[Ntrcpt]

It was torn off when Max rammed a car in the beginning of The Road Warrior. Don't make stuff up.

[PatrolmanDark]

I'm not making it up. Looking at the video right now. One of the first shots of the Interceptor, at 4 minutes 44 seconds shows that the bottom of the nose cone, the air dam, is cut off. And the great shot of slaloming through the wreckage, where Wez makes the jump also shows the nose with the air dam cut off. At 5:45, he rams the Landau, which takes off the upper part of the nose cone. Please feel free to watch the movie and verify.

[bam88]

what happened to the front bumper?

[GTJIMZEE]

Give it the BEEGEEZUZ!!! It's the DUCKS GUTZ!