Mad Max interceptor

skiffy

skiffy

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It's the real deal.. Apparently the back-up car used in the 1979 movie, re-built from write-off, restored to glory and now residing in the Isle of Man UK.

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Link to article: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/EditorialGallery.aspx?ArticleID=6496609&SectionID=870
 
I'd take this story with a grain of salt, if I were you.

There was only one Black Interceptor in Mad Max 1, there was no back-up vehicle. They couldn't afford it. It was then re-used in Mad Max 2, and now resides at the Cars of the Stars museum in Keswick in the UK. The full history of that car can be found at: Mad Max Interceptor - The Complete History, Part 1

There was a back-up Interceptor built for Mad Max 2 but that one was physically totalled in the crash scene. This is how it ended up:

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Now if you read up at Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior Vehicles - Wrecks at Broken Hill, there's a picture from 2006 of the same site and the Interceptor wreck is not visible. So it's possible the wreckage was sold on to someone...but I really don't see how they could take that wreckage and do anything with it. It is a nice replica though.

I'll drop the owner of that Mad Max site an email and see if he can shed some light on it.
 
Gotta love that Ford Falcon from down under.

A shame we never saw that model in the States. Sure, the larger Torino comes close. BUT don't tell me you wouldn't rather have something you could truly call the falcon.

If it was made from that wreckage, whew that's some fine work. Doubt it, no gas tanks in the back of the resto.

While not the dirty beast we see on screen there's no denying: that thing is sick in gloss black.

EDIT:
The link goes directly to the photos. Article is found here:
http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Dad-brings-Mad-Max-car.6496609.jp

Its barely on topic but Hot Wheels has a yellow/black 73 Falcon GT on the shelves these days. RHD and all.
 
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Thanks for shining a light on this story RobWolf! As Nighteyes says, if the car really was re-built from that rusting hulk - that's a hell of a restoration.

Whetever the pedigree - it's a beautiful car. I hope some day to get close to it when it fires up, I can just imagine the racket. o_O
 
Incidentally, after the above picture was taken, someone stole one of the tanks off the back, at which point the guy who owns the land stopped letting people go and see it.

I've started converting the Hot Wheels '73 Falcon into the V8, however last week I found another one in a different paint job, it's blue and silver with a silver interior. The yellow one is the better option because the interior is black
 
Okay guys, so I just got a very interesting reply from Peter Barton at madmaxmovies.net:

"Looks like a replica to me - looks like something Gordon Hayes & Grant
Hodgson built (looks like their fibreglass kit), doubly so since they state
that car has been shipped from Perth.

The wreck is not restorable as far as I'm concerned. By the time you ended
up with a car as straight as the one pictured, there would be none of the
original body left! As far as I am aware, that wreck is still in Broken
Hill. And Cars of the Stars have not sold theirs as far as I know - I've
fired them a note, but it doesn't look like that car either.

Peter."

So there you go. I suspect that the guy decided to try and get in the local news (although then again, does anything newsworthy happen in the Isle of Man? :p ) and gave them a lines and figured they wouldn't do any research. Or maybe the paper made it up using bits and pieces they gleaned from the web, figuring 'Man buys replica of Mad Max car' could do with spicing up. I don't know if he told them the original is in a museum in Australia or if that's a goof by the paper, or for that matter the bit about it being a back-up from the original movie and not the sequel. But the whole 'write-off' story is mixed with a whole other story, namely the 'sitting in a junkyard for years' which is what happened to the original car until it was found and restored.

But Peter's email echoes my own instant thoughts which were "That wreckage is TOO wrecked to restore"...and that replica is of the MM1 version, the original was restored in such a way that it retains the interior and rear tanks from MM" but it has a 'clean' paintjob, so I was certain it couldn't be the original
 
There's no way that hulk could be rebuilt. But you could cut off the serial plate and weld it in another car.

But there's dozens of replicas out there. Or is it Replicars?
 
Regardless of it's origins it's still a beautiful car! I loved that car when I was a teenager, and nearly bought a replica here, it was a Red one though, and even had the sloping front and spoiler. They wanted $1500 that I couldn't scrape up.

yep, beautiful cars, thanks for sharing
 
no probs i think that it shouldn't just be in the garage i think it should be out there for the world to see i will be posting more vids of it in the near future :p
 
thanks its also the only one in the UK as far as i can tell and the only one that has been internationally posted on youtube in full HD :D
 
The wreck is not restorable as far as I'm concerned. By the time you ended
up with a car as straight as the one pictured, there would be none of the
original body left! As far as I am aware, that wreck is still in Broken
Hill. And Cars of the Stars have not sold theirs as far as I know - I've
fired them a note, but it doesn't look like that car either.
Click to expand...

Does anyone know where in Broken Hill the wreck is? I live about 2hrs drive from BH
 
Those guy's are here in perth. anyone with the cash can have one of these replicas. You see falcon coupes driving round here all the time. The thing you have to watch for if buying from overseas is that the falcon had 3 different models over successive years. The XA , AB and XC. Then in each of those models was the falcon , falcon GT and the Fairmont. Each of these models has interchangeable parts Ie you could stick an XBGT hood/bonnet and XC fenders on an XA standard coup. This was done quite a lot during the eighties.

The fibreglass bodykit for the interceptor Has been available since the film and costs around $1500 bucks. Those wheels are still made today and the supercharger is fairly common. You could make a decent replica for under $10-$15 grand.

This one is a full restoration and would obviously cost a lot more , but the film used falcons , even the pursuit cars were beat up to begin with
 
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