Dale Walter fell in love with Mad Max’s Interceptor car more than 30 years ago when he first saw it on the big screen. He vowed to a friend that he’d one day build it. Five years of work, and $125,000 later, he has a street-legal working version of Max’s police car.
In the above feature from Barcroft Cars, a YouTube channel from Barcroft TV, Dale talks about the pros and cons of driving your own Interceptor.
If you can manage to find a 1972 Australian Ford Falcon and rehab it, this may cost you less than a lot of other classic car restorations. However, the engine alone (a 351 Ford Cleveland) cost $12,000 to restore by hand.
But on the “pros” list, it has working lights and sirens, movie-accurate decals, a police PA system, movie-realistic horn, and the 450 horsepower engine noise is fantastic.
The “cons” list is pretty short: It gets about six miles to the gallon, which probably wouldn’t work for a gas-starved Australian apocalyptic wasteland. Walter agrees:
“In the second movie, Max added those huge tanks. There’s a reason for that. This thing sucks gas like it’s going out of style.”
Added bonus: The steering wheel is on the passenger side because Australia is apparently both upside down and backwards. You can see Walter driving it around the streets of Michigan, though, so that’s not a huge deal in getting your post-apocalypse vehicle registered.
For added authenticity, there’s a fake sawed-off shotgun under the seat, because even in the States you can’t have a sawed-off shotgun as easily as they make it look in the movies (or, depending on what state you’re in, at all.)
Walter claims the car is priceless to him… unless your price is $25 million, in which case he’d be willing to sell.
(Via New York Post and GeeksAreSexy)
