![]() Max continues to use the vehicle to arrive at the wreckage of the Chevrolet Bel Air to retrieve the woman and find Johnny the Boy at the scene. The vehicle is often used in the movie, the first time driven by Max to chase the Nightrider. However, "The Dark One" character is not present in the movie as he or she was cut between the scripting stage and the production. Rockatansky" and "The Dark One" can be seen. The right front fender has the names of the vehicle's crew, "M. Additionally, the vehicle carries MFP badges and a variety of Max's personal items inside, including a flute and a helmet. Roof lights were made by a US company Petersons. The rear deep dish rims were the same as used on the Interceptor (made my Martin Mack). The roof spoiler was a multi-fit design made originally for the sedan roof line. The wheel flares resemble Torana SLR5000 flares but were custom made items and the roof spoiler is the same as the V8 Interceptor. The front spoiler was a custom deep spoiler design which was also used on the Big Bopper, March Hare and The Nightrider's Monaro. The scoop is obviously for show being mounted on top of the bonnet without sufficient airflow for the engine. The bonnet scoop is an L88 Corvette scoop which has had a NACA style intake cut into the front. All fibreglass parts were purchased from Errol Platt's workshop, EWP Fibreglass. The vehicle had the most fiberglass work installed out of all three MFP standard issue vehicles. In several shots you can still see the white paint: Door jams, under the bonnet etc Given that it was a budget movie the car was only quickly masked up and repainted from its original white on the outside only. After the purchase it was handed over to Ray Beckerley of Graf-X to undergo modification along with other vehicles for the movie. If anyone has any further detail on this (or in particular, photos of them in storage), please do get in touch.Ford Falcon XB 351 Sedan 1974, a former Victorian Police car in real life was bought by Byron Kennedy and George Miller to become Max Rockatansky's standard issue MFP Interceptor. Rumour has it that when they were subsequently re-discovered, and at that point they were in fact unfortunately then dismantled / destroyed, there being no likely future use for them at that time. (Page seems to no longer be online, I will archive here in the future.)Īs a final note on these vehicles, it appears that after the promotion work for the film, they were not originally destroyed, but were in fact all put into storage - and apparently remained in storage untouched for many years, forgotten about. Vehicles on the transport train on their way to the set of Thunderdome, you Pictures which you'd like to add, please just contact There must be HEAPS of pictures of these aroundįrom these shows, so if anyone out there has any further information or additional Show in Sydney that year, and were probably also put on display at other I remember this as being odd atĪll of the non film pictures which I have onlineĬurrently are from the 1985 Melbourne Motor Show, where the vehicles were displayed. They were RWD, rather than FWD as in a Swift. The motors were definitely longitudinally mounted, so I guess Look at two of them, and they were powered by Suzuki 3 cylinder motors, ieįrom a Swift GA. Kevin, who saw the vehicles first hand at the Sydney Easter Show, offered the Landcruiser based vehicle I haven't had much more info on this, although someoneĮlse believed that some of the smaller buggies were apparently volkswagon based. Only the basic shells of the original vehicles. ![]() Many of the custom vehicles were scratch built, using The car towards the end of the movie where all the lost kids and max climb in the boot is a 1959 Chrysler Royal. Was specially modified (axle base width) to ride the rails, as well asĪll over customisation to give it that "aged and weathered" The plane used by Jebediah (Bruce Spence) is a TransaviaĪgricultural/survey craft, which is unique to Australia. ![]() Max's vehicle - probably an F150 based truck. There is a sub-page for that specific vehicle). Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Vehicles Vehicle listing: ![]()
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