Mad Max II Interceptor

Adrian Bennett owns museum at the hill , good friend of mine .

I'd love to go visit there one day.

I was spose to go at christmas time but got as far as nyngan where my vt blew the intake manifold gaskets ! AND right hand disc pad scraped so we turned around and come home .
By the way mad max is on GO at 9.30pm thursday night in sydney .

RetrospectKustoms wrote:Any updates on this this one?

have a few things on my plate at the moment but have been doin a little, hope to have some pics soon, was trying to do an acurate replica of the movie car however every time i check a detail i find its in some pics and not in others ! eg the booby trap on the fuel tank appears in two different locations, i have been workin on the interior wich requires a lot of extra goodies that have to be scratch built, progress is slow but there is progress

Considering that there were two interceptors used in the making of Mad Max II, I'm not surprised that you find differences!

Yeah, you will find differences in reference photos. The easiest way to tell is to use the car with NO windscreen wipers as the reference, this was the "star car" The one WITH wipers was the "camera" car, used for most of the in car filming and had the camera rigs and so forth attached to it-This was the one wrecked at the end of the movie. It was quite a rough car to start with.

RetrospectKustoms wrote:Yeah, you will find differences in reference photos. The easiest way to tell is to use the car with NO windscreen wipers as the reference, this was the "star car" The one WITH wipers was the "camera" car, used for most of the in car filming and had the camera rigs and so forth attached to it-This was the one wrecked at the end of the movie. It was quite a rough car to start with.

You may have your cars mixed. The original was used for the in car shots. The new one was used for the distant/driving shots.

Not today...Allow me to clarify:
Star car:

Notice No Wipers.
2nd car:




Notice wipers, the dent in the fender(at the end of "Max's" belt) The whole bonnet was semi gloss black and this car retained the front end for nearly all filming, It was less dirty. Also had different tyres on the front if you wanted to be really picky

What I understand is that the camera car was the original and is the one that survived. What you are calling the star car was the one that got trashed. It was certainly the non-GT rougher car that was trashed.

The Genuine GT, from the first movie, was the one that survived, correct. This is the one in the top picture, which had the wipers removed, and the drivers door mirror retained. This was used for all close ups.

The "camera" car, with wipers on, and door mirror removed was the car that was rolled. (this stunt, the Lord Humungus stunt and the tanker roll over were done when filming was nearly complete.) they used this car for the driving stuff.

It would appear our difference of opinion is about the definition of "camera car"! That was what I was calling the car used for the close-ups.
So essentially, we are in agreement.

otherunicorn wrote:It would appear our difference of opinion is about the definition of "camera car"! That was what I was calling the car used for the close-ups.
So essentially, we are in agreement.

Star car - Camera car, Camera car - Star car. You say potato, I say potato
But that was they car we both said was the best for reference wasn't it?

RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The car you use as reference car is the one WITHOUT the wipers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The car WITHOUT the wipers did all the driving and the other one which was technally just a shell made up for the closeups and the rollover , TRUST ME !

interior is almost done, still a few small details to chuck in there and the dog needs a bit of work yet, given up on gettin it right now im tryin for looking the part !

looking good so far,as for one of car from the movie is in Broken Hill in someone shed with other bits from the movie.

DV8V8, if you're going for looking the part, you're doing a smokin' job of it!! Looks great so far!! good to see an update!

got a bit of time to work on this and its now almost ready for paint

Nice work!! The cut on the front end is perfect!! Great to see an update.

Almost finished, still have a few small details to do and lots of weathering.

Where did you get the dog from ? Is this the kit with the dog ? I was under the impression the MM2 car had no center consul, am i wrong ? Maybe i should go & rewatch the movie, then again any excuss will do to watch it again, lol.

It don't matter which potato your doing, it's looking pretty great to me.

Yahshu wrote: Where did you get the dog from ? Is this the kit with the dog ? I was under the impression the MM2 car had no center consul, am i wrong ? Maybe i should go & rewatch the movie, then again any excuss will do to watch it again, lol.

the dog came from the local Hobby shop its been slightly modified to fit in the seat and repainted and the bandanna added, u could be right about the consul i didnt know about that will have to have another look at the movie !

Great movie,Excellent build well done

This is great iv invested in this kit but i think im going to need a few as im unsure what way i wanna go with lol.

Great work, love the dog in the front seat.

Where did you get the dog?