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On this episode of My Classic Car, Dennis makes his way to Lewisville, TX to check out two of the most iconic movie cars ever made; The Blues Brother's "Bluesmobile" cop car and Mad Max's Interceptor "Last of the V8s" movie cars. And both with all of the trimmings possible, down to the last detail. In the movies they we're road rough, and these reflect it. I mean there are movie cars, and then there are "movie cars that have the oily fingerprint where a stage hand was working on it and they left it" movie cars (look for the fingerprints next to the star). They have the correct dirt on the sides!
Starting off with the Bluesmobile, this started truly as a '74 Dodge Moncao and was turned into the unseeming superhero capable of impossible feats. Now with the correct "cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks", it features not just the correct look, but done in the correct way. Not a graphic of a weathered and removed police star on the side, but a weathered and then removed star. The "to serve and protect" not just chipping away, but chipping away in the same spots it was in the movies. Frame by frame meticulously copied. The interior just as it was, down to the correct Frito's and crushed can on the dash, "this time" glued down as opposed to tossed loosely about like the movie, and sliding out the open window. And it still runs like a dream.
Unless your dream is to be the Road Warrior, and let's face it most of us did, then you want to drive the V8 Interceptor. Starting as a '74 Australian Ford Falcon XB, the slightly modified "down under" version of a Mustang, and blessed by Emil Minty (The Feral Kid) himself, this reproduction is so authentic it was used in a documentary reunion event "Back to the Max" (thus meeting Emil). The bomb (defused), the column light, the tanks, the incorrect tubing on the blower...all there. The ear busting zoomies by the back wheel, Dinky-Di Dog Food, it has to be seen to be believed. And if it's a clear Saturday in Lewisville Texas, you just might. It's meant to be driven, and drive it he does.
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S16E16, S23E18