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You can shut the gate on that one Maxie. It's the duck's guts
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Over three decades ago, 50-year-old Dale Walter from Michigan set his heart on recreating one of cinema's most iconic cars
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Mad Max is one of my very top favourite movies of all time. And when I was sitting there in the theatre and they rolled out that car in the scene in the garage where they first show it to him
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I turned to my friend and I said, someday I'll own that car. And he said, yeah, right
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Well, 30 years later, I sent him a picture of me next to the car
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Just so bad. I mean, just such a bad car. But to build the replica of the Police Interceptor, which is so far featured in three films from the Mad Max franchise
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Dean first had to get hold of an Australian Ford Falcon. I flew out to Washington to take a look at it and when I first saw it I remember saying
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I have never paid more money in my life for a bigger piece of junk
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Undeterred Dean paid over to convert the 1972 Falcon into a convincing Mad Max Interceptor And this is the heart of the car That is a 351 Cleveland
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It's 450 horsepower. It was built by Proformance Engineering. We spent $12,000 on the engine alone
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My favorite thing about the car is probably the engine sound. I considered putting a stereo in it
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but that engine note off that 351 stroke to 390 is just so choice that I just like listening to it
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The steering wheel is the Max Robb steering wheel that was used in the movie
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and you can see in the shifter it has the lever to turn on and off the blower
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One of the interesting things about the car that I get asked all the time is, is the blower real? And no, it's not, because if you remember in the movie
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he would turn on the blower, which is the big scoopy thing, to get more power to the car
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A real blower can't work like that. The way a blower works is it's forced air induction, and if you turn it on and off
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you would probably blow the bottom out of your engine. So the way this one works is it's on a magnetic clutch
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When I pull the lever, it spins up the blower, just like in the movie. If you notice here, it has the RVS radio, just like the one in the movie had
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and what Mad Max car would be complete without your handy dandy double barrel shotgun So we have a replica of that here because these are really illegal even in the United States One of the other features of the car is it does have a movie accurate siren
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It also has a movie accurate horn. And like the car in the movie, we have a PA system as a police car would
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Hey, you, stop. Hey, you know you're a turkey. Like Goose says in the movie
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When I first saw the car after it was rebuilt, I was absolutely stunned. Absolutely stunned
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It took them five years to do this, but the wait was worth it
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Well, you've seen it. You've heard it. How about we go for a ride
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The Interceptor always turns heads, even on the highway. You get all kinds of odd looks
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You get either, boy, that car looks familiar, or people whose eyes light up, and they go
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that's the Mad Max car. I think it's great. It was a great movie
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It's a great tribute to the car. I didn't see it first. I heard it first
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The car pretty cool I think the car is awesome actually Brings me back to when I was a little kid watching the movie for the first time And the car also attracted the attention of some other Mad Max buffs
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who are keen to get their hands on the wheel. I get asked a lot of times would I sell the car? The car is pretty much priceless to me at this point
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Of course there's always a price. If somebody walked through the door
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with $25 million I would pretty much head into a car. You know, this was such a dream for so long, 30 years
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to now be sitting here behind my own Mad Max Interceptor. It's pretty cool
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But for all its big screen bling, Dean's Interceptor does have its downsides
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I often wonder how it would fare in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and I think not so well simply because it gets about six miles to the gallon and
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you know you could tell in the second movie Max added those huge tanks there's
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a reason for that this thing sucks gas like it's going out of style so for that
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reason not so well Thank you
