00:00You can shut the gate on that one, Maxie. It's the duck's guts.
00:20Over three decades ago, 50-year-old Dale Walter from Michigan set his heart on recreating one of cinema's most iconic cars.
00:30Mad Max is one of my very top favorite movies of all time.
00:33And when I was sitting there in the theater and they rolled out that car in the scene in the garage where they first show it to him,
00:39I turned to my friend and I said, someday I'll own that car.
00:42And he said, 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 is so far featured in three films from the Mad Max franchise,
00:58Dean first had to get hold of an Australian Ford Falcon.
01:02I flew out to Washington to take a look at it.
01:05And when I first saw it, I remember saying, I 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 Interceptor.
01:23And this is the heart of the car.
01:27That is a 351 Cleveland. It's 450 horsepower. It was built by Proformance Engineering.
01:33We spent $12,000 on the engine alone.
01:36My favorite thing about the car is probably the engine sound.
01:40I considered putting a stereo in it, but that engine note off that 351 stroked to 390 is just so choice that I just like listening to it.
01:51The steering wheel is the Max Robb steering wheel that was used in the movie.
01:58And you can 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 real?
02:06And no, it's not.
02:07Because if you remember in the movie, he would turn on the blower, which is the big scoopy thing, to get more power to the car.
02:15A real blower can't work like that.
02:17The way a blower works is it's forced air induction, and if you turned it on and off, you would probably blow the bottom out of your engine.
02:23So, the way this one works is it's on a magnetic clutch.
02:26When I pull the lever, it spins up the blower, just like in the movie.
02:29If you notice here, it has the RVS radio, just like the one in the movie had.
02:36And what Mad Max car would be complete without your handy dandy double barrel shotgun.
02:43So, we have a replica of that here, because these are really illegal, even in the United States.
02:48One of the other features of the car is it does have a movie accurate siren.
02:54It also has a movie accurate horn.
03:03And like the car in the movie, we have a PA system, as a police car would.
03:10Hey, you, stop.
03:13Hey, you know, you're a turkey.
03:16Like Goose says in the movie.
03:18When I first saw the car, after it was rebuilt, I was absolutely stunned.
03:23Absolutely stunned.
03:24It took them five years to do this, but the wait was worth it.
03:28Well, you've seen it.
03:29You've heard it.
03:30How about we go for a ride?
03:36The Interceptor always turns heads, even on the highway.
03:40Nice car!
03:43Ah, you get all kinds of odd looks.
03:45You get either, boy, that car looks familiar, or people whose eyes light up, and they go,
03:50that's the Mad Max car!
03:57I think it's great.
03:58It was a great movie.
03:59It's a great tribute to the car.
04:01I didn't see it first.
04:02I heard it first.
04:05Yeah, the car's pretty cool.
04:07I think the car's awesome, actually.
04:09It brings me back to when I was a little kid watching the movie for the first time.
04:13And the car's also attracted the attention of some other Mad Max buffs, who are keen to
04:18get their hands on the wheel.
04:20I get asked a lot of times, would I sell the car?
04:23The car is pretty much priceless to me at this point.
04:26Of course, there's always a price.
04:28If somebody walked through the door with $25 million, I would pretty much head into a car.
04:39You know, this was such a dream for so long, 30 years, to now be sitting here behind my
04:49own Mad Max Interceptor.
04:50It's pretty cool.
04:54But for all its big screen bling, Dean's Interceptor does have its downsides.
04:58I often wonder how it would fare in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
05:03And I think not so well, simply because it gets about six miles to the gallon.
05:11And, you know, you could tell in the second movie Max added those huge tanks.
05:16There's a reason for that.
05:18This thing sucks gas like it's going out of style.
05:21So, for that reason, not so well.
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