00:00 00;01;10;12 00;01;14;22 Over three decades ago, 50 year old
00:23 Dale Walter from Michigan set his heart on recreating one of cinema's most iconic cars.
00:30 00;01;36;22 00;01;50;22 But to build the replica of
00:53 the police interceptor, which has so far featured in three films from the Mad Max franchise,
00:59 Dean first had to get hold of an Australian Ford Falcon.
01:02 00;02;00;00 00;02;10;00 Undeterred, Dean paid over $120,000
01:16 to convert the 1972 Falcon into a convincing Mad Max interceptor.
01:23 00;02;10;00 00;02;22;00 And this is the heart of the car.
01:27 That is a 351 Cleveland.
01:29 It's 450 horsepower.
01:30 It was built by Proformance Engineering.
01:33 We spent $12,000 on the engine alone.
01:37 My favorite thing about the car is probably the engine sound.
01:40 I considered putting a stereo in it, but that engine note off that 351 stroked the 390 is
01:48 just so choice that I just like listening to it.
01:51 The steering wheel is the Max Robb steering wheel that was used in the movie.
01:58 And you can see in the shifter, it has the lever to turn on and off the blower.
02:02 One of the interesting things about the car that I get asked all the time is, is the blower
02:06 real?
02:07 And it's not because if you remember in the movie, he would turn on the blower, which
02:12 is the big scoopy thing to get more power to the car.
02:16 Real blower can't work like that.
02:17 The way a blower works is it's forced air induction.
02:20 And if you turn it on and off, you would probably blow the bottom out of your engine.
02:23 So the way this one works is it's on a magnetic clutch.
02:26 When I pull the lever, it spins up the blower, just like in the movie.
02:29 If you notice here, it has the RVS radio, just like the one in the movie had.
02:37 And what Mad Max car be complete without your handy dandy double barrel shotgun.
02:43 So we have a replica of that here because these are really legal, even in the United
02:47 States.
02:48 One of the other features of the car is it does have a movie accurate siren.
02:58 It also has a movie accurate horn.
03:03 And like the car in the movie, we have a PA system as a police car would.
03:11 Hey, you stop.
03:13 Hey, you know, you're a turkey.
03:16 Like who says in the movie.
03:19 When I first saw the car after it was rebuilt, I was absolutely stunned.
03:23 Absolutely stunned.
03:24 It took them five years to do this, but the wait was worth it.
03:28 Well, you've seen it.
03:29 You've heard it.
03:30 How about we go for a ride?
03:36 The Interceptor always turns heads, even on the highway.
03:43 You get all kinds of odd looks.
03:45 You get either a car looks familiar or people whose eyes light up and they go, that's the
03:50 Mad Max car.
03:57 I think it's great.
03:58 It was a great movie.
03:59 It's a great tribute to the car.
04:01 I didn't see it first.
04:02 I heard it first.
04:03 The car's pretty cool.
04:04 I think the car's awesome, actually.
04:05 Brings me back to when I was a little kid watching the movie for the first time.
04:13 And the car's also attracted the attention of some other Mad Max buffs who are keen to
04:18 get their hands on the wheel.
04:20 I get asked a lot of times, would I sell the car?
04:22 The car is pretty much priceless to me at this point.
04:25 Of course, there's always a price.
04:28 Somebody walked through the door with $25 million, I would pretty much hand the car.
04:41 You know, this was such a dream for so long, 30 years, to now be sitting here behind my
04:49 own Mad Max Interceptor.
04:50 It's pretty cool.
04:54 But for all its big screen bling, Dean's Interceptor does have its downsides.
04:59 I often wonder how it would fare in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
05:03 And I think not so well, simply because it gets about six miles to the gallon.
05:12 And you could tell in the second movie Max added those huge tanks.
05:17 There's a reason for that.
05:18 This thing sucks gas like it's going out of style.
05:21 So for that reason, not so well.
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