Re: Possible pictures of actual Fury Road vehicles
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:28 am
But as furyroadcars said, this anouncement Interceptor was originaly built for the Fury Road in early 2000s
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Yep, so its the same car used in bank commercial and Fury Road announcementkennerado wrote:The same car that was shipped to Africa and then sent back when the original shoot was cancelled?
If it's of any concelation Rachael there were many car enthusiasts employed to work on this film, those of us responsible for building the cars weren't just film prop makers we are car heads. I myself was asked to work on the film as I was known to have had a lot to do with falcon hardtops and mad max replicas and muscle cars in general. So I got the job of handling the "muscle cars" inc the 5 falcon coupes, 2 valiant chargers and the U.S. Charger (plus a couple of others).
I took an active roll in helping choose which cars were bought where possible.
Of the falcon hardtops I personally supplied two of my own (both were built as the bare metal version of the interceptor). One was my drag car which had been substantially modified many years earlier and was unlikely to ever see the road again. The other car was quite rusty and needed extensive repairs to be restored (both 1/4s were dented badly and it had a huge aftermarket sunroof). I won't waffle on about every car here but similar story for many of them.
Plus every possible unused part from the Falcons was removed and taken home to help restore other cars. I can assure you there was almost no savable parts left.
3 of the 5 Falcons survived and returned to Australia. The other 2 were completely destroyed during filming so there was nothing left to come home (though did offer to buy the wrecks).
Virtually any car bought were possible was a rough example to start with, there was several reasons for that. 1)no point wasting money on a prime example just to wreck it 2)the cars needed to look weathered and worn so buying cars that were already rough saved time and looked more authentic. 3)we were conscious that people would be up in arms about destroying class
i remember the first time seeing this back in '09 getting all hyped up. It looks soooo badass, wish they used this look for Fury Road.Artemis Flow wrote:Looks like the Interceptor they used at the first announcement of the new Mad Max film , the honeycomb headlight grilles , also the rear was covered over , good info !
I think the honeycomb headlight grills was what they turned into the razorwire headlights on the Razor cola.Ol' Coyote wrote:i remember the first time seeing this back in '09 getting all hyped up. It looks soooo badass, wish they used this look for Fury Road.Artemis Flow wrote:Looks like the Interceptor they used at the first announcement of the new Mad Max film , the honeycomb headlight grilles , also the rear was covered over , good info !
"The car seen at the 2009 press release is the same car pictured above from the first trip to Namibia, it amazingly was saved and shipped back, then used in a Commonwealth bank ad a few years back before going back into storage at Canal Rd. The car has been quickly mocked up in Namibia. When the movie was postponed it was shipped back with some of the other equipment and parts. 2 other hardtops were sold off over there. I only had a few days with the car before the press release so it was pretty much just some quick mods and a tidy up. Once back at the Villawood workshop it was stripped back down and redone. That is the same car that is now touring the UK for the release of Fury Road. One seriously well travelled Falcon"rockatansky4073 wrote:I think the honeycomb headlight grills was what they turned into the razorwire headlights on the Razor cola.Ol' Coyote wrote:i remember the first time seeing this back in '09 getting all hyped up. It looks soooo badass, wish they used this look for Fury Road.Artemis Flow wrote:Looks like the Interceptor they used at the first announcement of the new Mad Max film , the honeycomb headlight grilles , also the rear was covered over , good info !
was a cool look though, what happened to that one anyway?