00:00You can shut the gate on that one, Maxi. It's the duck's guts.
00:21Over three decades ago, 50-year-old Dale Walter from Michigan set his heart on recreating
00:26one of cinema's most iconic cars.
00:29Mad Max is one of my very top favorite movies of all time. And when I was sitting there
00:34in the theater and they rolled out the car, the scene in the garage, where they first
00:38show it to him, I turned to my friend and I said, someday I'll own that car. And he
00:42said, yeah, right. Well, 30 years later, I sent him a picture of me next to the car.
00:47Just so bad. I mean, just such a bad car.
00:51But to build the replica of the Police Interceptor, which has so far featured in three films from
00:56the Mad Max franchise, Dean first had to get hold of an Australian Ford Falcon.
01:02I flew out to Washington to take a look at it. And when I first saw it, I remember saying,
01:06I have never paid more money in my life for a bigger piece of junk.
01:11Undeterred, Dean paid over $120,000 to convert the 1972 Falcon into a convincing Mad Max
01:20Interceptor.
01:22And this is the heart of the car. That is a 351 Cleveland. It's 450 horsepower. It was
01:31built by Proformance Engineering. We spent $12,000 on the engine alone. My favorite thing
01:36about the car is probably the engine sound. I considered putting a stereo in it, but that
01:44engine note off that 351 stroked the 390 is just so choice that I just like listening
01:50to it.
01:51The steering wheel is the Max Robb steering wheel that was used in the movie. And you
01:57can see in the shifter, it has the lever to turn on and off the blower.
02:02One of the interesting things about the car that I get asked all the time is, is the blower
02:05real? And no, it's not. Because if you remember in the movie, he would turn on the blower,
02:11which is the big scoopy thing to get more power to the car. A real blower can't work
02:16like that. The way a blower works is it's forced air induction. And if you turn it on
02:20and off, you would probably blow the bottom out of your engine.
02:22So the way this one works is it's on a magnetic clutch. When I pull the lever, it spins up
02:27the blower, just like in the movie. If you notice here, it has the RVS radio, just like
02:33the one in the movie had. And what Mad Max car would be complete without your handy dandy
02:41double barrel shotgun? So we have a replica of that here because these are really legal
02:46even in the United States.
02:48One of the other features of the car is it does have a movie accurate siren.
02:58It also has a movie accurate horn.
03:01And like the car in the movie,
03:07we have a PA system as a police car would.
03:10Hey, you, stop. Hey, you know you're a turkey.
03:15Like Goose says in the movie.
03:18When I first saw the car after it was rebuilt, I was absolutely stunned. Absolutely stunned.
03:23It took them five years to do this, but the wait was worth it.
03:28Well, you've seen it. You've heard it. How about we go for a ride?
03:36The Interceptor always turns heads, even on the highway.
03:43You get all kinds of odd looks. You get either, that car looks familiar or people whose eyes
03:48light up and they go, that's the Mad Max car.
03:52I think it's great. It was a great movie. It's a great tribute to the car.
03:56I didn't see it first. I heard it first.
04:01The car's pretty cool. I think the car's awesome, actually.
04:04Brings me back to when I was a little kid watching a movie for the first time.
04:08And the car's also attracted the attention of some other Mad Max buffs,
04:12who are keen to get their hands on the wheel.
04:15I get asked a lot of times, would I sell the car?
04:18The car is pretty much priceless to me at this point.
04:21Of course, there's always a price.
04:23If somebody walked through the door with $25 million, I would pretty much hand them a car.
04:37You know, this was such a dream for so long, 30 years,
04:41to now be sitting here behind my own Mad Max Interceptor. It's pretty cool.
04:49But for all its big screen bling, Dean's Interceptor does have its downsides.
04:54I often wonder how it would fare in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
04:58And I think not so well, simply because it gets about six miles to the gallon.
05:06And you could tell in the second movie Max added those huge tanks.
05:10There's a reason for that. This thing sucks gas like it's going out of style.
05:14So for that reason, not so well.
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