Starting life as a Falcon 500, the car spent 20 years sitting in a garage unregistered prior to the 2017 interceptor transformation. This particular car was built by personnel and contractors to the film industry including Mad Max films. 1979, saw the release of the Mad Max film and instantly the “Interceptor” driven by the Mel Gibson’s character ‘Max Rockatansky ’ shot to fame. ![]() This 1975 Ford Falcon Mad Max interceptor is an extremely accurate recreation of one of Australia’s most iconic movie cars. On its front, there is a makeshift crucifix where he chains Max, and on its ceiling, Immortan Joe’s brand.HIGHLIGHTS: – Highly detailed replica of screen car – Comprehensive build in 2017 – 351ci Cleveland V8 engine – 4 speed manual transmission – 9 inch differential – Attention to ensure car is street legal – IFE509 registration like original – Builder estimates 850 hours plus research on car (Some say it’s a ’34, Gibson himself claims it’s a ’32 Chevy.) Nux’s car is customized with the trifles he’s collected during his short life: an eyeball gearshift, a doll’s head on the steering wheel wearing a gas mask (resembling a little Immortan Joe), a bird skull bobblehead, a mobile made of human ears. Nux reveres Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne, who also played Toecutter in Mad Max) and sets out initially to recapture Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa and the Immortan’s Five Wives who have fled the Citadel, pursuing them in his immaculate 1932 Chevy five-window coupe. Tragically, the Razor Cola is crushed and explodes during Fury Road’s climactic battle.įury Road introduces countless newcomers to the Mad Max pantheon of legendary vehicles, and one of its most memorable is Nux’s car. Max’s car is then reborn as the Razor Cola, which the War Boys furnish with a new huge engine, a new chassis, deployable spikes, a harpoon gun, twin superchargers, and a silver matte finish. ![]() an unwilling blood donor) for one of their own, Nux (Nicholas Hoult). So Max has to do battle with his own car.”Īt the beginning of Fury Road, Immortan Joe’s War Boys seize the Interceptor, capture Max, and repurpose him as a “blood bag” (i.e. It actually comes back two-thirds of the way through the film, and it’s been jacked up, double blown, put on an off-road racing buggy kit and weaponized to hell, then sanded right back. So we took the Ford Falcon that everyone knows and loves, we connected it to the man driving it, and then wiped it out in the opening scenes. Since Mel Gibson passed the torch to Tom Hardy, Colin Gibson told Shortlist, “We needed a touchstone that tied us to the earlier series, to the myth, and yet let us move on. George Miller likened Max’s Interceptor to a cowboy’s favorite horse in a Western, and Gibson called it “a legend spotted in the gutter” and “the security blanket of the world of Max.” The Interceptor is essential to Max’s legend: a beaten-down icon, and an evocative, recognizable link between films. But it’s a little older now, rusted, rattling, sandblasted. His black 1973 XB Ford Falcon Coupe still has the Maxrob three-spoke steering wheel, the blower, a Scott injector hat, long-range fuel tanks, and zoomie exhaust pipes. ![]() In Fury Road, Max Rockatansky’s iconic Interceptor returns. Gibson and his crew were tasked with creating 88 unique vehicle designs for Mad Max: Fury Road, and in the end they crafted 150 total, including backup vehicles for stunts and all kinds of destruction. Miller told production designer Colin Gibson simply, “Make it cool or I’ll kill you.” ![]() Mad Max’s most recent quest, which came out in 2015, takes place in a desert ruled by the tyrant Immortan Joe, a region of the Wasteland overrun by the War Boys, a death cult whose currency is “Guzzoline.” The War Boys worship cars, and as venerated objects, each vehicle in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road has a unique look with its own personality.
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