Still looked damn impressive, though.Īside from the slant nose, the bodykit included the roof spoiler, bootlid spoiler and wheel-arch flares. The supercharger poking through the bonnet was a real eye-opener back then, but it’s famously a fake, as the on/off switch for the blower proves. The fibreglass droop-snout was Arcadipane’s work and it was a style that was widely copied in the late ’70s and ’80s on everything from speedway cars to panel vans. He was joined by Ray Beckerley and another bloke by the name of Peter Arcadipane who worked for Ford and who, in a future life, would be a graphic designer on Motor Manual, which became Car Australia, which became MOTOR. Smith was convinced to sell the XB to the production company and was hired as an on-set mechanic. The story goes that the coupe was originally Smith’s own road car and it was ‘discovered’ when somebody from the production company drove past his house and saw it on the driveway. A bloke called Murray Smith was part of the crew and it was his job to rustle up the XB coupe and turn it into the “last of the V8s” legend. Production on Mad Max began in 1976 and one of the first jobs was to organise the rolling stock for what was to be a very car-oriented film. The War Boys modified Max's car into the Razor Claw and used it against him for the rest of the movie.Let’s face it, any car that can justify lines such as “P-p-piece from here, p-p-piece from there” and “Kick her in the guts Barry!” is something pretty awesome. Because Fury Road introduced a new lead actor 30 years after the last film, it needed the iconic black V8 Interceptor to establish the setting and reassure viewers they were in the right auditorium. Miller had a good artistic reason for bringing the beloved car back. Miller's 2015 tie-in Mad Max comic series revealed as canon that Max had discovered his restored road machine after Beyond Thunderdome. Then, with no onscreen explanation, the V8 Interceptor briefly appeared alongside Tom Hardy's Max in the opening sequence of Mad Max: Fury Road before the new villains crashed and stole it again. The iconic car only made it a bit over halfway through the first sequel before it got destroyed, however, and was altogether absent from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. After driving the V8 Interceptor into the Wasteland at the close of Mad Max, he was next seen driving it at the beginning of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. The Pursuit Special debuted in a garage scene midway through the first installment, and Max stole it from the Halls of Justice following Jessie's death. Related: Mad Max: Why The Road Warrior Cut Lord Humungus’ Backstory Max's yellow Interceptor was one of the few cars that wasn't wrecked, either onscreen or off. It had a 351 cubic inch Cleveland V8 engine. It was one of three Ford Falcons marked as patrol cars for the Main Force Patrol, and it had previously been a real patrol car for the Victoria police force. Max Rockatansky drove a yellow, red, and blue 1974 Ford Falcon XB Sedan when audiences met him at the beginning of the Mad Max timeline. Related: When Will Furiosa Take Place In The Mad Max Timeline MFP Yellow Interceptor (Mad Max) Here's every car driven by Max Rockatansky in the Mad Max franchise. For Mad Max: Fury Road, the production team took 15 years to design and build a 150-machine armada that outdid the earlier chapters by yet another order of magnitude. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome set more of its story away from highways, but it still delivered more extreme machines in its final act. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior stunned moviegoers with an unprecedented fleet of specially-designed combat vehicles that fought elaborate, nitrous-fueled wars along desolate roads. Mad Max movies' cars only got wilder in the sequels as budgets grew and stories moved to post-apocalyptic hellscapes.
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