Even Kids get taught about Mad Max !!

kellz · Post by **kellz** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:07 pm

well i actually ahd to annalyse mad max, yes all of them for advanced english fro my hsc, and that was only 3 years ago now.. so much fun

i have even sat in mad max's interceptor in silverton nsw, great piece of machinery and it still gets around today....

mick_dundee · Post by **mick_dundee** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:35 pm

The interceptor!

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:36 pm

kellz wrote:...i have even sat in mad max's interceptor in silverton nsw, great piece of machinery and it still gets around today....

you mean this Interceptor ??

kellz · Post by **kellz** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:42 pm

yes i was jsut about to put my pic of it up

you beat me to it...

god i love that pub....

Jonno · Post by **Jonno** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:05 pm

There was about 25 built or was that the MFP cars? anyway not many of them came out alive

They from memory were built in Dandenong Vic (MFP dunno about the interceptor). All the boys were worried the cops were actually gunna run these things on the street to catch them .lol.
Funny how the rumour got around

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:16 pm

kellz wrote:yes i was jsut about to put my pic of it up

you beat me to it...

god i love that pub....

just bing it up anyway mate, can't have too many shots of the Silverton Hotel......and *that* interceptor.....

Jonno - Only 2 *Black on Black* cars built, all the MFP cars were 'Interceptors', and its actually never referred to in the film as *The Interceptor*, but *the last of the V8 interceptors....*

Max's MFP car was a V8, as was Charlie and Roops, but Sarse and Scuttle (the other 2 MFP bronze) had a 6-cylinder shitbox that was actually an ex-taxi from BlackCabs......it was bog-stock, right down to the smoke belching out the 'zorst.....

best link is http://www.madmaxmovies.com

it is really really really good.......

mick_dundee · Post by **mick_dundee** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:25 pm

Perhaps

Gosling1
KSRC Addict

Should also be Mad max addict

Or perhaps Team Mad max?

kellz · Post by **kellz** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:33 pm

ok you asked for them ........lol.......

and no that isnt me next to the car.......

the mad max wall of fame......

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:51 pm

mick_dundee wrote:Perhaps

Gosling1
KSRC Addict

Should also be Mad max addict Or perhaps Team Mad max?

I am a very sad anorak when it comes to MM......except for #3, now you can jam that #$##@@##@ in your ear

Interesting Triva # 125 - Max was a bike cop in the 'early' days, before an accident forced him into a car - there are some stills from pre-production of MM1 with Max and Goose both on bikes, and apparently a 'drag race' scene between Max and Goose, both on MFP Patrol bikes, was filmed but never used

John H · Post by **John H** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:09 pm

Another link - an American outfit that imports old XB fords for Mad Max freaks in the USA to turn into Interceptors: http://www.madmaxcars.com

That car outside the Silverton pub doesn't have the funny fibreglass nose (like the one below) that the movie Mad Max car had. I've got a photo of a Ford panel van concept from the Melb or Sydney motor show circa 1977 that has the same wedge-shaped nose as the Mad Max car (though it looks pretty cruddy tacked onto the panel van body). I guess somebody in the aftermarket accessories industry must have been churning these things out at the time.

My dad had a yellow XB sedan at the time Mad Max came out. Unfortunately ours only had standard 14X6" wheels, chrome hubcaps, no stripes, a 200cid six, only one exhaust pipe and blew no smoke, so there was no convincing the other kids at school it was an Interceptor!

Neka79 · Post by **Neka79** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:02 am

geez gos, is that u humping the 'cepta??
cos in those boots, and that jacket...u kinda look like one of the nightriders mates....

Jonno · Post by **Jonno** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:11 am

Is that a bottle in ya hand gos? looks like blackberry nip...!
Could be a funnel bong or were ya doing the fuel theme of MM and milking it..hahaha

greenmeanie · Post by **greenmeanie** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:31 am

I think watching Mad Max as a kid started my love affair for ford coupes(xa-xc). Just recently sold my John Goss Special(miss it

).

Definitely one of the toughest looking cars ever made(incl US muscle cars) ....imho.

On a side note...i remember as a kid my uncle had a katana painted all black and kitted himself in all black gear complete with metal on shoulders of leather jacket(you would probably remember that gear gosling).

MickLC · Post by **MickLC** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:42 am

I've got an XA Superbird sitting in the garage at home that my father-in-law bought new 1973. Tis a thing of beauty, big and orange with a metallic brown bonnet and colour matched 12-slotters. Still has the original motor in it that runs fairly well, but needs a bit of head work.