I remember seeing the television commercials for the original Mad Max movie when I was a 10 year old kid playing with hot wheels cars at my neighbors house. We both thought it was the coolest thing we ever saw. 30 years later I owned a 1975 Falcon XBGT 351 Clone. It was originally a 302 car but had an Australian 351 and all of the XBGT parts. Right before the newest Mad Max Fury Road came out, I got an offer too good to pass up and sold it to 'Mad Max cars' out near Seattle Washington so they could make a proper Interceptor out of it for a customer. One of my biggest automotive regrets is selling that car, but I had a lot of fun with it too.
Atleast they didn't blow up the first one in the first original mad max movie instead it's stored somewhere in a large dealership or auto show or for sale but no one hasn't bought it because it's to expensive and it doesn't run on modern day gasoline
Have a look at the movie Stone(Aussie made movie in 1974). Z900's galore. It was made in conjunction with the then release of said bike. Great movie though.
Excellent as always, thank you. I’m surprised, after the success of the first and second movies, that the production company would scrap the car. Glad it was saved. ~ Chuck
As far as from a car value standpoint, I am guessing there wasn't much value in old cars from films. However after TWO MM films utilizing the Interceptor, someone took it upon themselves to make the creative decision that any more subsequent MM films would NOT have an Interceptor??
They need to show these Movies again in theaters.. People will see non CGI stunts and hopefully appreciate film history..Love your channel thanks . Do the Death Race Mustang..
I revisit this film ever few years. I was amazed at them capturing the motorcycle sounds with low budget film making. It sounds so great like when I get with a group of biker hitting high speeds!
I went and saw this car at a show in Tasmania when it did its tour. I also had a chance to buy a XB coupe in the early Nineties with a rebuilt Cleveland 302. I passed on the deal (could have got it for about $2000). I'm kicking myself for not getting it now. They are cool cars.
I had a green 75 XB GS Fairmont coupe, stroked 302 (351) done up in silver GT paint trim. Some minor rust, but very solid. Sold it in about 1998 for $2200 to replace it with a plush NC Fairlane. The XB was such a cool car and I couldn't understand why they weren't really that wanted back then. About two years later the prices for the XA's to XC's shot skyward and my NC devalued at a similar speed. I'm spewin' now, the XB would be a $60,000 car today, and I had the space then to keep it and put it under a cover!
This is and will always be my favorite movie of all time, it was the first rated r film my parents let me watch as a kid, except for the nudity. Growing up in the 80s any car or bike show was the ticket. It still is a great movie to this day.
The best part about this movie was most of the scenes were shot near my home town. It was fun going to all these place to relive the movie. The scene where the bike was doing burnout, is still a popular place to visit and usually the same burnout mark is somewhere in the main street 👍👍
How strange. I saw the Mad Max movie in Belize in 1981. On tour with 11 Fd Sqn, 38 Engr Regt. Belize got her independance on 21 Sep 1981. In Oct-Nov a few of us went on R&R to Floriida and stayed in Orlando. My buddy and me both had Kawasai motorcycles. He had a Z1000 and I had a Z750.
Used to deliver the local paper to the bloke who built up the supercharger - he was in West Heidelberg. Said he was out at the drags at Calder Park, a car blew the supercharger, and the mechanics removed it and dumped it in a bin. He grabbed it thinking it might come in handy someday. He said for the Mad Max car he welded up and cleaned up a big crack in the compressor body (right term???), where it had let go, and set it up so that it could be driven from behind, ie as every one knows it was doing no real blowing. It was an interesting conversation when you were a 16 year old boy thinking of becoming an Engineer....
The motorcycle setting beside the car. Was in Mega Force The Wheelies and Tank Jump were performed by the Late Doug "Wheelie King" Domokos. If I remember right they were Suzuki RM125's.
Outstanding Video Most Enjoyable, but there is no term of "Positive-Traction" for rear ends. General Motors coined and trademark registered the brand name "Posi-Traction" for their limited-slip unit. Ford called theirs "Traction-Lok" while Chrysler called theirs "Sure-Grip." The proper terminology for sending equal power to both wheels under traction is called a Locking Differential.
@@ImnotyourdoormatI actually really scored big some years ago, I wanted a 9” to put into my XB sedan. I found one in Sydney, it was a disc brake complete diff so I bought it, and also bought a very rare set of XY GTHO finned oversized rear drum brakes (I don’t like the early Ford calipers, they don’t perform well and they tend to jam up and I always intended on fitting drums, just not a GTHO set) so I get the diff home, and read the tag to see what I got and it comes up as being a Ford Hi-Po diff with a 3.00:1 ratio locker. I think I paid $690 for it about 10 years ago, basically any 9” now is $1000 minimum and the GTHO drums are worth similar, possibly more money and I paid $300 for those.
Will you be covering any English movie/TV cars at any point? There's a few that are quite iconic like Austin Powers' Jaguar E-Type (not an English movie but the E-Type is an English car), the Austin Mini Coopers from The Italian Job (original movie) and Mr. Bean's Mini
I first saw the car on screen in 1980 at the $1 theatre. I was supposed to see another movie but when I saw the poster I was hooked. I don’t think I blinked the whole time. This IS my ALL TIME favorite car EVER!!! When I drive my triple black Hellcat I’ll hit the SRT button to track mode and imagine myself as Max. Still the kid in me….
Iconic movie, iconic hero car. There are many movie accurate replicas all over the world, even in Japan. There is a documentary on RUclips of the making of this film with some insane facts. The bikers were a real biker club and were paid in beer. Max had the only real leather outfit, the rest of the cops had to make do with vinyl outfits. The yellow cop cars were ex Melbourne taxi's. The director George Miller sacrificed his own van in the opening chase sequence where it gets hit by a cop car. The main villain (The Toecutter) played by Hugh Keays-Byrne (RIP) is the same actor who played the main villain (Immortan Joe) in Mad Max Fury Road.
Only one of the yellow police cars was an ex-taxi, "March Hare" driven by Sarse & Scuttle - it's the one smoking badly. "Big Boppa", driven by Roop and Charlie, was an ex-Victorian Police '74 XB with a 302 Cleveland whilst Max's "Interceptor" was also an ex-police '74 XB but with a 351 Cleveland. "March Hare" was also powered by a straight six.
I recall seeing this in the 80's and after, I did a burn out but i got pulled over and nailed for reckless driving. Was worth it my 76 Nova would lite the tires up had a 396 BB in it.
The last time I watched Max I drove my wife crazy because I was drinking and kept saying Max’s lines, wound up drinking a bottle of JB Honey neat, then sleeping on the back verandah with the dogs on their lounge.
Was reading in HPP (High Performance Pontiac) mag many years ago that a Pontiac Motor was used for the part where Max walks into the garage where he sees it. If you watch the part it seems like it "could" be a PMD engine rather than a Ford, if you look closely you can see that they used a lamp and a huge yellow funnel on the core support to block the Right hand side part of the engine, and every shot after wont show anything but the Roots. Not sure if it's true of not, but apparently in the DVD version you can can confirm the PMD parts.
No, definitely not. It’s a Ford 351 Cleveland. It’s the XB GT’s standard motor. The reason for the yellow bucket is because it’s full of water. The switchable supercharger is turned by an electric water pump so the bucket is full of water with some hoses going into the water pump.
I didn't think the original survived! That means it's only about 150 miles from me! Hopefully I can see it before either I or the car leave. I'd love to see it...
I remember a part of the movie when he turns the supercharger on and it starts spinning, which is not how superchargers work. It’s pretty funny that it was actually fake and powered by an electric motor.
Definitely not the same car, the Falcon coupe was unique to Australia and doesn't share any body parts at all, possibly only a few suspension engine and transmission components.
It was fun in 80s hearing all the tall tales how the yanks believe it was a heavily modified Torino or mustang and all made us laugh how many claimed they can identify it from body work done to it. Back when you could pick these up for 500 bucks or less from old petrol stations around Australia or farmers selling them in side of the road in county towns. Ahh those where the good old days
True the aussie falcon was a bigger success down here then the yank version, and then taking our holden commodore and rebranding them as Pontiac G8 ha ha.
Since it wasn't a car actually used by the characters in the movie, that would tough. I'll add it to the list to look into though to see if possible or not. Thanks
@@CarStarz42 Was being facetious as wondering if anyone else noticed or why did they even have it at all. Not sure if they still do the crash re enactments of Mad Max in the same area.
If it hadn’t been made into a Max Max car and it was kept all original the base car, seeing it’s a 4 speed and I think has ac, would still be worth somewhere around the 100-150k range.
It's a shame we in the US ended up with the pig-turd Gran Torino and the '74-'78 Mustang 2 instead of these beauties. I mention the Mustang 2 because the 1976 to 1978 Mustang 2's Cobra version had styling very similar to a later 70s Australian Falcon coupe Cobra version (I believe a 1978 Cobra Falcon version which was the last of the Falcon coupe breed and quite rare).
They also seemed to have a knack for making the 351C run. In the states, aside from the ‘71 Boss 351, 351C’s in general were complete turds. Something about the Aussies having unique head castings with ports that were neither too big or too small.
@@johnh3476Indeed. On the one hand I'm a fan of not polluting, on the other hand it's about the smiles per gallon! I also get the biggest kick out of my 1971 Buick Riviera GS barely making 25 more horsepower but only getting 1/3 the mpg as my wife Challenger SE. The difference with my Challenger RT Scat Pack is even more embarrassing LOL!
@@failranch9542 Polution regulations killed power in most v8s from the seventies, toss the Polution gear and a some decent mods and that brings them back to life.
In mad world were psychos, gangs and maniacs ruled the highways stands one man thats out for revenge after his family was run down by biker gang whose sick, twisted crimes have also cost our hero's friend life too so he decides to hunt these evil people in mean, powerful, supercharged muscle car that very fast for his mission as usual carstarz you did incredible effort on 73 ford falcon video with the fact that we almost lost yet another movie car icon like the interceptor because of filmmakers wants to get rid it but thank our stars that one guy saved xb form the crusher anyway i got to go see you later bye now.
@CarStarz42 actually i am happy just watching movie reviews like good bad flicks ☺️ i don't need to worry about it as this is more fun to watch him do funny jokes then me+reviews are good and one more tip bit to say there's a yt channel that does rc cars as movie cars (not all the time but he made the knight rider kitt and starsky&hutch grand torino on the channel) anyway thanks for responding as my original comment was not interesting so redo was in order my friend all right then see you later and have nice weekend bye now.
Engine compression had a massive cut on 73 due to new smog regulations. A 72 corvette had double the horsepower of a 73. This low compression low horsepower v8s would continue until the introduction of fuel injection. I have a hard time believing that car produced 300 HP if it was factory specs
I've been looking for any concept drawing but couldn't ever see any regarding the fact they wanted a 69 mustang in place of the maxs pursuit special but budget wise they couldn't afford one at the time. Wouldn't have had same affect as the xb that's for sure but curious to see what it might have looked like
With some ingenuity you could theoretically make a blower on demand like the Interceptor. You would need a system that would allow airflow when the blower isn’t engaged but closes when it does engage, and a clutch actuated pulley.
It is a Weiland blower gutted out, with a Scott injection hat on top so there is no air restriction to the single Holley carby the blower covers. The blower is driven by an electric water pump (when Max first meets his car in the underground bunker, there is even a bucket under the bonnet filled with water for the pump just out of shot on the right hand side) and the pump is switched on and off with an Eaton 2 speed diff switch.
@@thesausage351 I know the movie one is a prop, but I am intrigued by how something like this could be legitimately possible with some engineering. It’s no different than Dick Tracy video calling from his watch in the 40’s, and now we have Apple Watches that are possible with current technology.
@@MrJayrock620The easiest way to make a blower switchable is to run a V belt and bolt an AC pump clutch on the front of the blower snub, connect it up to the vein, and then when you want blower power switch the clutch on.
You already have a blower switch and it's modulating. It's called a throttle. Would it be impossible? No. Would it provide any worthwhile benefits? Also no.
Damn wish i had the money to buy that car when it sat at the wrecking yard in sth. Australia back in the early 80's,use to go there with my brother and ask the owner if we could pull the tarp back and look at it.
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also a fun little note about what they say in the film, Phase 4 heads, they were off of the falcon race cars, and thanks to some social justice wankers they werent able to make the actual phase 4 cars, like they did with the 3's that they would have used, but they made enough of them and enough parts that they did trickle out through the backdoor so thus max's car would really be the only car able to catch up and keep up with a superbike using the would be superparts they never got, IE the Ford Falcon XC Cobra, think that but in XB form, which properly raced at Bathurst and was sold in limited quantities as a street car and the Cleevland 351 they made is actually not a standard 351 like we have up here, the design and the heads are different, I think more semi hemi design unique to the aulstralian market, hell they even made and had a unique hemi down there called the 265 inline 6 hemi for the Chrystler Valiant Charger that had a very similar sort of chbi style design to it of the falcon, which showed up as one of the cars in the film actually think a dodge dart that actually had someone take it to a wind tunnel and turn it more into a ford talladega coupe here, and then downsized it even further to be more like one of the Toyota muscle car knock offs they made, ie the Celica
Love your enthusiasm. I'm from down under & owned a 74' Ford Landau (coupe version of the LTD 4 door here) They had the 4V closed chamber heads you allude to. Even it had 290BHP in stock trim & 4V heads (identified by large lettering, compared to small lettering for the open chamber 4V's,. Concerning the XB GT (such as the one here used in the original 2 MadMax movies). These didn't receive the Phase 4 left-over produced parts you allude to in your post! These parts found their way into the very early XA GT models from 72' on. In similar fashion, some of the XY GTHO Phase 3 parts, ended up in early production XY GT's (street versions of the GTHO Bathurst track cars) & if I recall right, even very early XA GT's received some of the XY GTHO parts. Interesting fact: The XY GT (street production model) could do 140mph stock & it did keep up with Ducati's etc. ALL these GT/GTHO models had a decompression chamber or multiple head gaskets fitted that lowered compression. When removed, they were 12:1 compression! Had near well over 300hp in stock form! Side note: concerning the HEMI's you speak of. I owned a VH Valiant R/T E38 Trackpack charger from 71'. It was race built with triple 45 Weber carbs, sent to Italy along with the heads to have them match-ported & tuned for race by the italians. Full floating pistons with brass bushings that sat the gudgeon pin. Vented rear drum brake covers. 16:1 steering ratio. Huge gas tank that sat in the rear of the boot with twin tank fillers. 1 positioned each side on rear quarter panel. Spare tyre sat in front of the tank. Standing up... The Phase 4 (was the planned GTHO for the XA models from 72') They did in fact make 3 race car only versions of the Phase 4 & 1 production version only, that actually received a compliance plate on the production line with GTHO & registered on the road. The production version was in green paint & cream interior & still owned here. These were unofficially rated from 350-400BHP.
There was factory black coupes, that car started life white. The Falcon sedans used where possibly ex Vic Police with some striping. Most were XBs but I do remember a XA also
I don't think the car itself is worth a few million dollars but if that money is going toward the museum and not someone's pocket them yes I would buy it.
I seen in another video, cant remember where, but when he mentioned the tight film budget, and only one hero car, thats one reason the bad guys were all on motorcycles, it was cheaper to put them on those than cars, plus it gave off the evil biker gang vibe..But the first reason was money... fun fact...
*It's amazing how many times the front bumper has changed...* People keep wrongly painting it the same color as the rest of the car. It's supposed to be matte, not glossy.
Dezer is a 🇮🇱 billionaire so he's not going to go cheap. I did security at that location. 10mo prior to full opening, 3mo as a tourist spot. Dezer has many cars, props, Hollywood stuff.
I have a question. Did anyone see the the original Australian version or have you only seen the U.S.A. voice over dub?? Also another good aussie Car movie that is not very PC try Running on Empty. Same era Aussie Muscle cars with some U.S. cars in the mix and Midnight Spares
Another 3 obscure car moves are The Big Steal (Goose from MM is in this movie), Malcom, and my favourite, Freedom, where a car valet steals a Porsche and drives around Adelaide and picks up a girl for a little adventure. Awesome movie.
OMG. I never have even heard of the American dub version, I just looked it up then and holy crap it’s been ruined! Jim Goose sounds like a bloody nerd. I’m going to block that out of my mind and never ever revisit it.
I went and test drove a XB coupe that had a 460 and tunnel ram on it. I was going to buy it, I think it was $7500 at the time, probably 25 or more years ago, but before I got back a few days later with the cash, someone had bought it over the phone and paid the guy $5k on top of the price so he’d go back on our deal, and it went on a car carrier, then straight to the docks and was shipped to America before i had come back to pick it up on the day we agreed to.
Ah sorry, you mention only the XB GT 351. Not the XA and XC plus all the non GT coupes powered by our 351 and 302 Cleveland engines as well as 6 cylinder models.
I was going to Import a Falcon in 01 but after import fees etc it would've been 15k for car and almost another 15k just to import.I had a buddy who owned a shop and would've handled the import.But I did the responsible thing and bought a house.Sure my house is paid off now,but that car will always be my favorite screen used car,the style is so Australian,they did a lot of cars better in style then some of their American counterpart.
Ha, Aussie here, I was in a similar situation and wanted to import one of 2 cars, a Bullitt Mustang or a 74 Buick Riviera, because I used to work in a local gym when I was about 13 just as a janitor style job, and a guy lived there who was ex RAAF and he really treated me like a son, and he owned a 74 Riv. When I was about 14 or 15, we were driving in it and he let me drive, and I went to my mates place because I was trying to hook up with one of his sisters friends, and what’s cooler than a 14yo pulling up in a big American coupe. It didn’t work, but I drove a Buick before I had my licence. Anyway I ended up buying an XB GS Fairmont sedan and fitting a trick GTHO engine into it, and maybe a few months after I spent my ‘im going to buy something stupid’ money, that very Buick Riv came up for sale for $11000. It has been resprayed, the guy disagreed with me and said it hadn’t, then I showed him a pic of it I took back in the 90’s, and I told him all the history I knew, including the old number plates, USA002, and that it was used on the cover of a CD. Looking back now, I should have bought it and just done some overtime to cover it, but anyway, that’s how it goes, not meant to be so I just moved on.
@@thesausage351 That's awesome,I drove a 68 Chevelle in High School until I was 20,funny enough it was a Canadian Car,how it ended up here in Las Vegas I'll never know.But I was saving after I sold it to Buy that Beautiful Interceptor,but ya that import fee will get ya.American Buicks are Fun I've ridden in a lot of different Rivs over the years 67 was my favorite a neighbor had one it was metallic blue.Cheers to you my friend.
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Man, I'm an idiot, here i thought a V8 Interceptor was a real car model and the reason why i never saw one on the road was because it was a non exported Australian muscle car.
It's referred to as Pursuit Special or V8 Interceptor, which is why I mentioned both titles. Here in the states most refer to it as the V8 Interceptor...
@@ldnwholesale8552the yellow 4 doors were cheap cars they bought. There is an XA, single headlight which I’m sure is also a 6 cylinder. I’m pretty certain that was Big Bopper.
there are some movie elements that can never be improved upon. one of them is max's car from the first mad max. the first 3 mad max films were great. fury road sucked.
I remember seeing the television commercials for the original Mad Max movie when I was a 10 year old kid playing with hot wheels cars at my neighbors house. We both thought it was the coolest thing we ever saw. 30 years later I owned a 1975 Falcon XBGT 351 Clone. It was originally a 302 car but had an Australian 351 and all of the XBGT parts. Right before the newest Mad Max Fury Road came out, I got an offer too good to pass up and sold it to 'Mad Max cars' out near Seattle Washington so they could make a proper Interceptor out of it for a customer. One of my biggest automotive regrets is selling that car, but I had a lot of fun with it too.
I've loved that car since I first saw it in the early 80s, thanks for putting this video out.
You are very welcome and I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂👍
Happy to see it's alive and well.
The last of the V8 Interceptors... a piece of history! Would've been a shame to blow it up...
Atleast they didn't blow up the first one in the first original mad max movie instead it's stored somewhere in a large dealership or auto show or for sale but no one hasn't bought it because it's to expensive and it doesn't run on modern day gasoline
@@rickyboy6390 it’ll run fine on pump fuel. I have an engine the same as it and it runs fine.
@@thesausage351 except it's to expensive
It's a quote from the movie.....
@@shawnbottom4769 MM2 I think it’s from. I’ve only seen it a handful of times. It’s the original one that does it for me.
Whoever chose the vehicles did a superb job. Kawasaki Z bikes were all over this film.
Theyre awesome bikes
They were donated by Kawasaki!
Have a look at the movie Stone(Aussie made movie in 1974).
Z900's galore.
It was made in conjunction with the then release of said bike.
Great movie though.
@@1953beetlea lot of the bikes and riders from Stone were used in Max
I’d love to have a KZ 900 I remember them being everywhere wen I was young what a badass bike !
Excellent as always, thank you. I’m surprised, after the success of the first and second movies, that the production company would scrap the car. Glad it was saved. ~ Chuck
As far as from a car value standpoint, I am guessing there wasn't much value in old cars from films. However after TWO MM films utilizing the Interceptor, someone took it upon themselves to make the creative decision that any more subsequent MM films would NOT have an Interceptor??
The Road Warrior will always be my favorite movie. Thanks for this one.
That’s the car that got me into cars. So badass.
Same here. That and KITT from Knight Rider.
They need to show these Movies again in theaters.. People will see non CGI stunts and hopefully appreciate film history..Love your channel thanks . Do the Death Race Mustang..
Thanks, yep; there are some Death Race 2000 cars on my to do list 😁👍
I revisit this film ever few years. I was amazed at them capturing the motorcycle sounds with low budget film making. It sounds so great like when I get with a group of biker hitting high speeds!
I went and saw this car at a show in Tasmania when it did its tour. I also had a chance to buy a XB coupe in the early Nineties with a rebuilt Cleveland 302. I passed on the deal (could have got it for about $2000). I'm kicking myself for not getting it now. They are cool cars.
I had a green 75 XB GS Fairmont coupe, stroked 302 (351) done up in silver GT paint trim. Some minor rust, but very solid. Sold it in about 1998 for $2200 to replace it with a plush NC Fairlane. The XB was such a cool car and I couldn't understand why they weren't really that wanted back then. About two years later the prices for the XA's to XC's shot skyward and my NC devalued at a similar speed. I'm spewin' now, the XB would be a $60,000 car today, and I had the space then to keep it and put it under a cover!
G'day ..As an aussie, i can say that you did your research .. good on ya's ..
Thanks much and glad you enjoyed it 👍
This is and will always be my favorite movie of all time, it was the first rated r film my parents let me watch as a kid, except for the nudity. Growing up in the 80s any car or bike show was the ticket. It still is a great movie to this day.
Awesome film.
Max's car was so cool.
The ultimate Car STAR!
_KITT quietly clears his throat as the General Lee blows its horn_
@@HM2SGT , they are cool, BUT no match for the Interceptor! :P
Great Car... Glad it Survived..
Indeed; I figured all the original car was long gone by now; so that was a pleasant surprise! 😀
Love your vids.
Cool thanks 👍👍👍😊
You are very welcome and I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂👍
The best part about this movie was most of the scenes were shot near my home town.
It was fun going to all these place to relive the movie.
The scene where the bike was doing burnout, is still a popular place to visit and usually the same burnout mark is somewhere in the main street 👍👍
Cool, 😉👍
They still have the crash re enactments as a big party?
I have always had a connection to this car, especially because my dad spent 7 years building an exact movie car replica from film no.1!
Nice 😉👍
This one of my favorite movie cars
How strange. I saw the Mad Max movie in Belize in 1981. On tour with 11 Fd Sqn, 38 Engr Regt. Belize got her independance on 21 Sep 1981. In Oct-Nov a few of us went on R&R to Floriida and stayed in Orlando. My buddy and me both had Kawasai motorcycles. He had a Z1000 and I had a Z750.
Thanks for another interesting video
Thanks mate.
Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Used to deliver the local paper to the bloke who built up the supercharger - he was in West Heidelberg. Said he was out at the drags at Calder Park, a car blew the supercharger, and the mechanics removed it and dumped it in a bin. He grabbed it thinking it might come in handy someday. He said for the Mad Max car he welded up and cleaned up a big crack in the compressor body (right term???), where it had let go, and set it up so that it could be driven from behind, ie as every one knows it was doing no real blowing. It was an interesting conversation when you were a 16 year old boy thinking of becoming an Engineer....
Lol, indeed 😉
Great video, thanks for making it!
Thanks, Glad you liked it :-)
Always loved this car!! Still want the quad side pipes on my car!!
New favorite RUclips channel
Glad to hear it! 🙂👍
It's an important piece of chase scene automotive movie history
My favorite car of all time
My father had an XB coupe, looked like a GT but had a 250 CID motor. We called it the ' green slug '.😅
There was a green 250ci 6 XB coupe in my town too. I used to fill it up when it came into the servo I worked at, I always asked if he’d sell it to me.
That was really cool! Love the movie, love that car. Great research Dude, please make more videos! 😎
Thanks much, yep I intend to keep pumping them out 😎👍
That was a great review of a fantastic iconic car 👍
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it 😉👍
1973 was just before Australia's pollution control laws. So it would have still had some get up and go in GT form.
Another great video, any chance of doing one on the F100 in the Charles Bronson movie MR Majestyk?
That pickup definitely has some 'plot twists' including ending up as an after the film product placement.
@@culcune If you google 1976 Ford f100 commercials you'll see they used footage from the movie.
@@glennbourne7917 Yeah, it's like they placed their F100 in a commercial as a prequel, or something really confusing like that!
The motorcycle setting beside the car. Was in Mega Force The Wheelies and Tank Jump were performed by the Late Doug "Wheelie King" Domokos. If I remember right they were Suzuki RM125's.
Outstanding Video Most Enjoyable, but there is no term of "Positive-Traction" for rear ends. General Motors coined and trademark registered the brand name "Posi-Traction" for their limited-slip unit. Ford called theirs "Traction-Lok" while Chrysler called theirs "Sure-Grip." The proper terminology for sending equal power to both wheels under traction is called a Locking Differential.
Guess the terms depend on the company you're talking with on that topic; but thanks and I'm glad you enjoyed it👍
@@CarStarz42 pretty much...haha lol
Yeah that was going to be the one correction I was going to mention. Ford had True Trac, which perhaps was the Aussie name for it.
@@thesausage351 😆😆😆
@@ImnotyourdoormatI actually really scored big some years ago, I wanted a 9” to put into my XB sedan. I found one in Sydney, it was a disc brake complete diff so I bought it, and also bought a very rare set of XY GTHO finned oversized rear drum brakes (I don’t like the early Ford calipers, they don’t perform well and they tend to jam up and I always intended on fitting drums, just not a GTHO set) so I get the diff home, and read the tag to see what I got and it comes up as being a Ford Hi-Po diff with a 3.00:1 ratio locker. I think I paid $690 for it about 10 years ago, basically any 9” now is $1000 minimum and the GTHO drums are worth similar, possibly more money and I paid $300 for those.
Will you be covering any English movie/TV cars at any point? There's a few that are quite iconic like Austin Powers' Jaguar E-Type (not an English movie but the E-Type is an English car), the Austin Mini Coopers from The Italian Job (original movie) and Mr. Bean's Mini
Yep, some of those are already on the list, especially the Italian Job and Austin Powers 👍
To the scrapyard workers at fact No7. Thank you for your service.
I first saw the car on screen in 1980 at the $1 theatre. I was supposed to see another movie but when I saw the poster I was hooked. I don’t think I blinked the whole time. This IS my ALL TIME favorite car EVER!!! When I drive my triple black Hellcat I’ll hit the SRT button to track mode and imagine myself as Max. Still the kid in me….
Iconic movie, iconic hero car. There are many movie accurate replicas all over the world, even in Japan.
There is a documentary on RUclips of the making of this film with some insane facts. The bikers were a real biker club and were paid in beer. Max had the only real leather outfit, the rest of the cops had to make do with vinyl outfits. The yellow cop cars were ex Melbourne taxi's. The director George Miller sacrificed his own van in the opening chase sequence where it gets hit by a cop car.
The main villain (The Toecutter) played by Hugh Keays-Byrne (RIP) is the same actor who played the main villain (Immortan Joe) in Mad Max Fury Road.
Indeed a makeshift built movie that really delivered regardless 😉👍
Only one of the yellow police cars was an ex-taxi, "March Hare" driven by Sarse & Scuttle - it's the one smoking badly. "Big Boppa", driven by Roop and Charlie, was an ex-Victorian Police '74 XB with a 302 Cleveland whilst Max's "Interceptor" was also an ex-police '74 XB but with a 351 Cleveland.
"March Hare" was also powered by a straight six.
I recall seeing this in the 80's and after, I did a burn out but i got pulled over and nailed for reckless driving. Was worth it my 76 Nova would lite the tires up had a 396 BB in it.
The last time I watched Max I drove my wife crazy because I was drinking and kept saying Max’s lines, wound up drinking a bottle of JB Honey neat, then sleeping on the back verandah with the dogs on their lounge.
Fact #11, it is a Pursuit Special!
It wasn't until the 2 movie that it picked up the moniker "last of the V8 interceptors"!
Still cool always liked the movies👍👍👍👍👍🤗
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Was reading in HPP (High Performance Pontiac) mag many years ago that a Pontiac Motor was used for the part where Max walks into the garage where he sees it. If you watch the part it seems like it "could" be a PMD engine rather than a Ford, if you look closely you can see that they used a lamp and a huge yellow funnel on the core support to block the Right hand side part of the engine, and every shot after wont show anything but the Roots. Not sure if it's true of not, but apparently in the DVD version you can can confirm the PMD parts.
No, definitely not. It’s a Ford 351 Cleveland. It’s the XB GT’s standard motor.
The reason for the yellow bucket is because it’s full of water. The switchable supercharger is turned by an electric water pump so the bucket is full of water with some hoses going into the water pump.
You can definitely see the 71-73 Mustang Mach 1 in the styling.
1971 Ford Torino.
Saved!!!
I didn't think the original survived! That means it's only about 150 miles from me! Hopefully I can see it before either I or the car leave. I'd love to see it...
I remember a part of the movie when he turns the supercharger on and it starts spinning, which is not how superchargers work. It’s pretty funny that it was actually fake and powered by an electric motor.
Indeed, lol.
There actually is a switchable Toyota supercharger.
I was born in 1970 all the kids wanted the General Lee or Knight Rider Trans Am. this was my car id take to hell and back
The blower switch is a 2 speed Eaton diff switch.
You could make your own Falcon with a 1970 Ford Torino. Same car only left hand drive. In Australia they still make the spoilers for it.
Definitely not the same car, the Falcon coupe was unique to Australia and doesn't share any body parts at all, possibly only a few suspension engine and transmission components.
Maybe you should do a series for all of vehicles used in mad max and the road warrior.
Yeah, I'll eventually cover more from later movies in the series too.
It was fun in 80s hearing all the tall tales how the yanks believe it was a heavily modified Torino or mustang and all made us laugh how many claimed they can identify it from body work done to it. Back when you could pick these up for 500 bucks or less from old petrol stations around Australia or farmers selling them in side of the road in county towns. Ahh those where the good old days
Not as fun as knowing everything successful that was ever in Australia came from America.
@@dukecraig2402Indeed? _Chris Hemsworth, Paul Hogan, Hugh Jackman & Nicole Kidman chuckle and smile pityingly_
True the aussie falcon was a bigger success down here then the yank version, and then taking our holden commodore and rebranding them as Pontiac G8 ha ha.
Now do the high tail streamliner partially covered in the garage scene unveiling this car.
Since it wasn't a car actually used by the characters in the movie, that would tough. I'll add it to the list to look into though to see if possible or not. Thanks
@@CarStarz42 Was being facetious as wondering if anyone else noticed or why did they even have it at all.
Not sure if they still do the crash re enactments of Mad Max in the same area.
@@HerbertWingfield Regardless, it would have been cool to see at least one of the characters zipping around in that though 😉😁
From $7,800 to a couple of a million dollars.... wow, what a price markup.
If it hadn’t been made into a Max Max car and it was kept all original the base car, seeing it’s a 4 speed and I think has ac, would still be worth somewhere around the 100-150k range.
Probably the toughest looking full size coupe, and it is full size
Not full size by USA standards - more a "compact" over there.
@@JBofBrisbanesize wise, it’s almost identical to the 1970’s Mach 1 Mustang.
Just found your channel and subbed. Have you ever thought of doing a video on Christine??
Welcome. Yep, that is one of my favorite car movies; I'm just waiting for closer to Halloween time to do that one. 😉
Can you please do one on the movie Christine my favorite by the way. Great videos by the way
Thanks. Yes, one of my favorites also; I'm just saving that one for the Halloween season😉
It's a shame we in the US ended up with the pig-turd Gran Torino and the '74-'78 Mustang 2 instead of these beauties. I mention the Mustang 2 because the 1976 to 1978 Mustang 2's Cobra version had styling very similar to a later 70s Australian Falcon coupe Cobra version (I believe a 1978 Cobra Falcon version which was the last of the Falcon coupe breed and quite rare).
They also seemed to have a knack for making the 351C run. In the states, aside from the ‘71 Boss 351, 351C’s in general were complete turds. Something about the Aussies having unique head castings with ports that were neither too big or too small.
The US had emission standards and the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulation. It was the death of big horsepower in the 70s in the US.
@@johnh3476Indeed. On the one hand I'm a fan of not polluting, on the other hand it's about the smiles per gallon!
I also get the biggest kick out of my 1971 Buick Riviera GS barely making 25 more horsepower but only getting 1/3 the mpg as my wife Challenger SE. The difference with my Challenger RT Scat Pack is even more embarrassing LOL!
@@HM2SGTLOL, nice rides! 😀
@@failranch9542 Polution regulations killed power in most v8s from the seventies, toss the Polution gear and a some decent mods and that brings them back to life.
In mad world were psychos, gangs and maniacs ruled the highways stands one man thats out for revenge after his family was run down by biker gang whose sick, twisted crimes have also cost our hero's friend life too so he decides to hunt these evil people in mean, powerful, supercharged muscle car that very fast for his mission as usual carstarz you did incredible effort on 73 ford falcon video with the fact that we almost lost yet another movie car icon like the interceptor because of filmmakers wants to get rid it but thank our stars that one guy saved xb form the crusher anyway i got to go see you later bye now.
Indeed, you should write movie reviews 😉👍
@CarStarz42 actually i am happy just watching movie reviews like good bad flicks ☺️ i don't need to worry about it as this is more fun to watch him do funny jokes then me+reviews are good and one more tip bit to say there's a yt channel that does rc cars as movie cars (not all the time but he made the knight rider kitt and starsky&hutch grand torino on the channel) anyway thanks for responding as my original comment was not interesting so redo was in order my friend all right then see you later and have nice weekend bye now.
Engine compression had a massive cut on 73 due to new smog regulations. A 72 corvette had double the horsepower of a 73. This low compression low horsepower v8s would continue until the introduction of fuel injection.
I have a hard time believing that car produced 300 HP if it was factory specs
You're talking about US regulations, not relevant to Australia.
I've been looking for any concept drawing but couldn't ever see any regarding the fact they wanted a 69 mustang in place of the maxs pursuit special but budget wise they couldn't afford one at the time. Wouldn't have had same affect as the xb that's for sure but curious to see what it might have looked like
Yeah, would have probably ended up looking something like this though... i.pinimg.com/originals/4e/6c/31/4e6c3187398d5d3fc2a71ed04b047315.jpg
With some ingenuity you could theoretically make a blower on demand like the Interceptor. You would need a system that would allow airflow when the blower isn’t engaged but closes when it does engage, and a clutch actuated pulley.
It is a Weiland blower gutted out, with a Scott injection hat on top so there is no air restriction to the single Holley carby the blower covers. The blower is driven by an electric water pump (when Max first meets his car in the underground bunker, there is even a bucket under the bonnet filled with water for the pump just out of shot on the right hand side) and the pump is switched on and off with an Eaton 2 speed diff switch.
@@thesausage351 I know the movie one is a prop, but I am intrigued by how something like this could be legitimately possible with some engineering. It’s no different than Dick Tracy video calling from his watch in the 40’s, and now we have Apple Watches that are possible with current technology.
@@MrJayrock620 Toyota make a switchable supercharger.
@@MrJayrock620The easiest way to make a blower switchable is to run a V belt and bolt an AC pump clutch on the front of the blower snub, connect it up to the vein, and then when you want blower power switch the clutch on.
You already have a blower switch and it's modulating. It's called a throttle. Would it be impossible? No. Would it provide any worthwhile benefits? Also no.
Adding to Fact #4 the motor that turned the rotor-less supercharger casing was in fact from a washing machine.
Lol, lovely 😉
Old school interceptor hands down
over the fury road model !
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I Always thought it was a modified Monza or Oldsmobile starfire , I bought an Oldsmobile Starfire because it looked so similar
Damn wish i had the money to buy that car when it sat at the wrecking yard in sth. Australia back in the early 80's,use to go there with my brother and ask the owner if we could pull the tarp back and look at it.
does someone know the background music name?
I get most of my music from a site called EpidemicSound, this one was from there and is called "It All Ends Now" by Hampus Naeselius You can try the site for free here... share.epidemicsound.com/erjnqj
Any chance you be able to breakdown mr bean's mini, james bonds db5 and herbie?
Those are indeed all already on my long list to look into. Thanks 😉👍
also a fun little note about what they say in the film, Phase 4 heads, they were off of the falcon race cars, and thanks to some social justice wankers they werent able to make the actual phase 4 cars, like they did with the 3's that they would have used, but they made enough of them and enough parts that they did trickle out through the backdoor
so thus max's car would really be the only car able to catch up and keep up with a superbike using the would be superparts they never got, IE the Ford Falcon XC Cobra, think that but in XB form, which properly raced at Bathurst and was sold in limited quantities as a street car
and the Cleevland 351 they made is actually not a standard 351 like we have up here, the design and the heads are different, I think more semi hemi design
unique to the aulstralian market, hell they even made and had a unique hemi down there called the 265 inline 6 hemi for the Chrystler Valiant Charger that had a very similar sort of chbi style design to it of the falcon, which showed up as one of the cars in the film actually
think a dodge dart that actually had someone take it to a wind tunnel and turn it more into a ford talladega coupe here, and then downsized it even further to be more like one of the Toyota muscle car knock offs they made, ie the Celica
Love your enthusiasm. I'm from down under & owned a 74' Ford Landau (coupe version of the LTD 4 door here) They had the 4V closed chamber heads you allude to. Even it had 290BHP in stock trim & 4V heads (identified by large lettering, compared to small lettering for the open chamber 4V's,.
Concerning the XB GT (such as the one here used in the original 2 MadMax movies). These didn't receive the Phase 4 left-over produced parts you allude to in your post! These parts found their way into the very early XA GT models from 72' on. In similar fashion, some of the XY GTHO Phase 3 parts, ended up in early production XY GT's (street versions of the GTHO Bathurst track cars) & if I recall right, even very early XA GT's received some of the XY GTHO parts. Interesting fact: The XY GT (street production model) could do 140mph stock & it did keep up with Ducati's etc. ALL these GT/GTHO models had a decompression chamber or multiple head gaskets fitted that lowered compression. When removed, they were 12:1 compression! Had near well over 300hp in stock form!
Side note: concerning the HEMI's you speak of. I owned a VH Valiant R/T E38 Trackpack charger from 71'. It was race built with triple 45 Weber carbs, sent to Italy along with the heads to have them match-ported & tuned for race by the italians. Full floating pistons with brass bushings that sat the gudgeon pin. Vented rear drum brake covers. 16:1 steering ratio. Huge gas tank that sat in the rear of the boot with twin tank fillers. 1 positioned each side on rear quarter panel. Spare tyre sat in front of the tank. Standing up...
The Phase 4 (was the planned GTHO for the XA models from 72') They did in fact make 3 race car only versions of the Phase 4 & 1 production version only, that actually received a compliance plate on the production line with GTHO & registered on the road. The production version was in green paint & cream interior & still owned here. These were unofficially rated from 350-400BHP.
People swear that blower is real.
The legendary Black on Black. You can’t go wrong with an Australian that can strike fear into other road warriors
There was factory black coupes, that car started life white. The Falcon sedans used where possibly ex Vic Police with some striping. Most were XBs but I do remember a XA also
I was always more interested in that van \ car Max’s wife used to shuttle the kid around in in the first film. Based on the same platform I believe.
The wagon is a 1975 Holden Sandman. They are pretty cool looking
Me too. The van is super cool
Not even the same car brand. It was a HX Holden Sandman & yes, a great legend itself & worth a pretty penny here down under ;)
Tha Coupe is a Ford. The Sandman Van used was a Holden. So no similarity except for the aproximate year.
@@timothylanders3189 it was actually a HJ plain van (not sandman)
Ill take one
How tough? how fast? very...faster then fear. tougher than iguana's gonads!
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I don't think the car itself is worth a few million dollars but if that money is going toward the museum and not someone's pocket them yes I would buy it.
I seen in another video, cant remember where, but when he mentioned the tight film budget, and only one hero car, thats one reason the bad guys were all on motorcycles, it was cheaper to put them on those than cars, plus it gave off the evil biker gang vibe..But the first reason was money... fun fact...
The bag guys were actually a group of bikers that had been in the Aussie movie Stone.
*It's amazing how many times the front bumper has changed...*
People keep wrongly painting it the same color as the rest of the car. It's supposed to be matte, not glossy.
Yeah 😉
I still ride past that scene all the time on my road bike
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Well you've been up working all night, go to bed and get some rest.
Yeah, I do that often 😁
Dezer is a 🇮🇱 billionaire so he's not going to go cheap. I did security at that location. 10mo prior to full opening, 3mo as a tourist spot. Dezer has many cars, props, Hollywood stuff.
Indeed, that is one massive and high price collection from what the pics I've seen anyways. 😮
2:34 what a cutie! If I was thirty years younger, and she was a little blind and not too intelligent or choosy... 😉😁
I have a question. Did anyone see the the original Australian version or have you only seen the U.S.A. voice over dub?? Also another good aussie Car movie that is not very PC try Running on Empty. Same era Aussie Muscle cars with some U.S. cars in the mix and Midnight Spares
Another 3 obscure car moves are The Big Steal (Goose from MM is in this movie), Malcom, and my favourite, Freedom, where a car valet steals a Porsche and drives around Adelaide and picks up a girl for a little adventure. Awesome movie.
OMG. I never have even heard of the American dub version, I just looked it up then and holy crap it’s been ruined! Jim Goose sounds like a bloody nerd. I’m going to block that out of my mind and never ever revisit it.
Doc's Delorean or V8 Interceptor?
Well, if the Delorean was a real time machine, then that; but just as regular real life cars, then the Interceptor of course 😉
ok you do have a video of it
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I had an XB GT Falcon 2 door If only I had known.
I went and test drove a XB coupe that had a 460 and tunnel ram on it. I was going to buy it, I think it was $7500 at the time, probably 25 or more years ago, but before I got back a few days later with the cash, someone had bought it over the phone and paid the guy $5k on top of the price so he’d go back on our deal, and it went on a car carrier, then straight to the docks and was shipped to America before i had come back to pick it up on the day we agreed to.
Think you may be out with those production numbers mate.
I'm sure we sold more than 900 GT coupes over those years.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Ah sorry, you mention only the XB GT 351.
Not the XA and XC plus all the non GT coupes powered by
our 351 and 302 Cleveland engines as well as 6 cylinder models.
It’s probably just the way you’ve written that and you probably know but there was never an XC GT made.
I was going to Import a Falcon in 01 but after import fees etc it would've been 15k for car and almost another 15k just to import.I had a buddy who owned a shop and would've handled the import.But I did the responsible thing and bought a house.Sure my house is paid off now,but that car will always be my favorite screen used car,the style is so Australian,they did a lot of cars better in style then some of their American counterpart.
Ha, Aussie here, I was in a similar situation and wanted to import one of 2 cars, a Bullitt Mustang or a 74 Buick Riviera, because I used to work in a local gym when I was about 13 just as a janitor style job, and a guy lived there who was ex RAAF and he really treated me like a son, and he owned a 74 Riv. When I was about 14 or 15, we were driving in it and he let me drive, and I went to my mates place because I was trying to hook up with one of his sisters friends, and what’s cooler than a 14yo pulling up in a big American coupe. It didn’t work, but I drove a Buick before I had my licence. Anyway I ended up buying an XB GS Fairmont sedan and fitting a trick GTHO engine into it, and maybe a few months after I spent my ‘im going to buy something stupid’ money, that very Buick Riv came up for sale for $11000. It has been resprayed, the guy disagreed with me and said it hadn’t, then I showed him a pic of it I took back in the 90’s, and I told him all the history I knew, including the old number plates, USA002, and that it was used on the cover of a CD. Looking back now, I should have bought it and just done some overtime to cover it, but anyway, that’s how it goes, not meant to be so I just moved on.
@@thesausage351 That's awesome,I drove a 68 Chevelle in High School until I was 20,funny enough it was a Canadian Car,how it ended up here in Las Vegas I'll never know.But I was saving after I sold it to Buy that Beautiful Interceptor,but ya that import fee will get ya.American Buicks are Fun I've ridden in a lot of different Rivs over the years 67 was my favorite a neighbor had one it was metallic blue.Cheers to you my friend.
The OG Doms charger
That's one of my older videos that I recently updated and uploaded onto the other platform that I'm working on transitioning all my videos to, you can watch it here...
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Man, I'm an idiot, here i thought a V8 Interceptor was a real car model and the reason why i never saw one on the road was because it was a non exported Australian muscle car.
No you're not, under all the body work it is just a real production car that was primary sold in Australia, it's just not called an Interceptor 😉👍
Bring her home to Oz someone
He's in a coma, man! He loves it.
Lol
looks like an AMX
is it not a Pursuit Special ? the Interceptors were the regular yellow saloons.
It's referred to as Pursuit Special or V8 Interceptor, which is why I mentioned both titles. Here in the states most refer to it as the V8 Interceptor...
Correct, the yellow 4 doors were probably ex Victorian cop cars. The highway cars were 351s. No fat arsed coupes were used.
@@ldnwholesale8552the yellow 4 doors were cheap cars they bought. There is an XA, single headlight which I’m sure is also a 6 cylinder. I’m pretty certain that was Big Bopper.
Sooo what you’re saying is when the apocalypse happens raid the Orlando Auto Museum, got it.
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pursuit special
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Aussie muscle.
Indeed 😉👍
Stupid looking tanks in the back totally destroyed the cool look that the spoiler added!
there are some movie elements that can never be improved upon. one of them is max's car from the first mad max. the first 3 mad max films were great. fury road sucked.
True, but I have enjoyed all of the Mad Max films so far, not sure about that new one coming soon though, but we'll see.