Petersen Automotive Museum had an exhibit specifically of cars used in movies and television. And I mean yeah, it's not like they don't have them most of the time but they decided to specialize. Know what car drew the most sucked breath and hushed tones? The plaque on that machine states that the prop department had half an afternoon to build the 6000SUX. It looks like a car from two or three angles. The Wraith it ain't. This is generally true of all movie cars - you make them look good from six feet away, they're good enough for all but extreme close-ups. Let's take a look. That's a '73 Ford Falcon. Take it from someone who drove a '66 Ford Falcon - it's a piece of shit. Nonetheless it is the hero car of the series 'cuz it was in Mad Max 1 2 and 3. There's an iconic scene in Mad Max 2 where Max turns on his blower with a switch - gearheads watch it and groan but keep watching because it's the spirit of the thing, see, a blower that isn't spinning in front of the engine might as well be a plank of wood over the intake but boy howdy doesn't it look awesome? This time around they yo dogg'd the blower so you can blow while you blow which is basically just their way of trolling those same gearheads. That much forced air induction would basically forego compression by pistons and you're basically just building a bad (ie nonfunctional) turbojet at that point but it doesn't really matter because again, six foot rule, half a day to build it, etc. Movie cars? They're fragile. They're special purpose. And there are many compromises in their manufacture. Those compromises generally preclude further modification because you purged all the shit you didn't need and didn't leave much room for revision. This is true of "rat rods" and "rat bikes." The removal and primering and otherwise hackery performed on such critters to make them look just so makes their revision towards normalcy (or any other direction, or further evolution) impossible. it ends up being cheaper and easier to start from scratch than to modify them further... and who the hell is gonna wanna see the exact same shit in the next $150m Mad Max movie?No idea why they'd sell these when they're still working on a sequel.
6000 SUCKS gettin' 8 miles/gallon in a (now considered) small sedan, lol. Hellz yeah for engine efficiency improvements. Recent encounter of mine w/ the Wraith (I hate loving that YouTubb channel). Even for new flicks, I now spend a fair bit of time dissecting movie production instead of following every plotline detail, so thanks, that was interesting. Trolling gearheads is great, makes me wonder if physicists get some of the same treatment. Begins watching The Core to become intentionally angry Some of the props in MoPop were pretty cool, btw. Is your friend (think you said he was a boom hand) gonna pass on Max Max, too (the sequel is now forever called that, for me)? LOL you were like "Look who he could have worked with!" and I said "Tom Hardy? Yeah, I know, right?" and you go "No, dumbass, Charlize!", and I was all "Oh. Yeah." Glad I finally semi-gotchu back for that meal and 'rita. Can't impress on you enough what a harrowing day that'd been for me, but it was also the day I made my name. Hopefully it's less than five years 'til next time. Now, to truly break even, I just need to get a Porsche and take you and yours out for a spin after driving an hour each way. Damn, I'm wayyyy in the hole. :)
It was worth it just to discuss Ukranian techno folk with your wife.