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Mad Max Fury Road vehicle auction

lloydsonline.com.au

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Full list of vehicles: https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/AuctionLots.aspx?smode=0&aid...

800 x 525 pixels and all pictures are from the movie set, no current ones. Good one lloyds.

Edit: nope, they have some studio glamour pictures, in 453 x 327 pixels.

Retro resolution for retro cars. Absolutely appropriate.

Looks even better on iPhone… wth

I was searching for the People Eater's Limousine (the Mercedes-Benz W123 limo mounted on a truck frame) but didn't find it.

>The vehicle was destroyed in a spectacular stunt and its remains were crushed and scrapped.

Damn.

There is hope!

> Two trucks were used for building "The People Eater Limousine". One for closeup shots and the second for stunts and the final explosion scene.

The Mercedes shells came from a wedding limousine company. :)

Mad Max Fury Road was the best action movie of the last decade. Or two decades.

You buy the War Rig and then pull over at some random gas station in a middle of nowhere. Pop in,get a few beers and ask for directions and then walk out in slow motion:)

A group of men surround your car eager to tell you stories about the cars it reminds them of.

There is a well known comic/author who owns a vintage Back to the Future DeLorean in Austin, TX. I’ve seen him park his car at a few places around town and every time he does a group of people swarm the car like this.

We used to have an office in a not so glamorous part of an industrial estate in London. The street is beyond bleak,etc.. One day,to our surprise, we saw Team Galag Batmobile pulling into the road. Needless to say that's the last thing one would expect to see on that road!

Sorry to admit I've been one of those swarmers when I saw that parked downtown.

As soon as they start approaching, you demo the flamethrower.

Mmm I worked on that film doing heaps of concrete that didn't look like concrete. The w16 land cruiser engine in the gigahorse setups a bit wild. Sacrificial gear link between them to join them. Pretty wild, fairly sure I've got a flaming skull from one of the front of the rigs somewhere. Fun cars, sound wicked when running.

Hot tip, all those cars were built with profits from happy feet too :) took the o.g builder like a decade to make them all.

I'd love to go shopping on the War Rig. It reminded me of a long time dream to take someone on a date on a garbage truck.

It would be awesome, but for some weird reason I suspect that most of these, including War Rig, are not street legal.

Oh to have that chrome V8 interceptor. That's the one to get.

The one to get? It only has a one V8 engine. You know what's better than one V8 engine? Two V8 engines.

The Gigahorse, that's the one to get.

What? No, it has to be the one with the speaker stacks, but it has to come with the guitar too

There is no way the speakers work though? But imagine wiring them up.. Is it even feasible I wonder

The speakers did work. So did the guitar.[1]

'MTV: So wait, the whole thing actually worked?

Gibson: You bet your sweet... George -- unfortunately -- doesn’t like things that don’t work. I have in the past built him props that I thought were just supposed to be props, and then he goes, "Okay, plug it in now."'

George Miller simply assumed it would work; and as a result, the end result was actually a functional guitar and speaker system.

[1] https://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-max-fury-road-guitar-pl...

Of all the effects in that movie, the ONE that I was sure was CGI was the flames coming out of the guitar.

Why would you think they couldn't work? My ultimate dream car was to own a real semi-trailer with that would open up like the old Optimus Prime toy so that when unfolded it would reveal a huge sound system ready to go in a matter of minutes.

idk I thought there wouldn't be enough power to drive them long enough, but apparently...

all shiny and chrome

The descriptions are awful, they provide no details on whether the vehicles actually run or can be driven.

I'd rather build my own. Mountable weapons are a bitch in the USA, the BATF gets all up and over people for making anything with real destructive potential.

Spikes and saws and shit get the cops excited too, out on the roads.

And the NTSB doesn’t look kindly on having your passengers swinging from 40-foot poles, either. Oh, the nanny state!

Would you mind endorsing me on LinkedIn for "having dudes on bendy poles"? [0]

0: https://youtu.be/7Nj9ZjwOdFQ?t=291

There used to be a place just outside of Las Vegas proper called "Buck's war surplus" that the teen version of me would go to and imagine what I would do with all that neat stuff. They got the top turret from a B17 once which I thought would make a nice addition to a large car. Nothing like pointing twin 50's at the traffic jam to encourage it to move along. Alas, I did not have the means to convert such speculation into rolling hardware.

These vehicles aren't suitable for street use. In the making of material they discuss building these and a good number are absolute deathtraps that the stunt people didn't feel safe in. (They were used for non-action shots.)

I've actually put a flamethrower on a car, long ago. Not a very big one; alcohol injected into a bypass exhaust pipe. It was a bitch to get it to wash the road and not set the car on fire; and there was a narrow window of speed where it was effective. too fast and it would self extinguish; even with naptha... faster than that by 3x and naptha would be a fine enough mist for an FAE pop, if we could get it to light.

Very, very much "not suitable for street use" :)

Not with that attitude!

I've wondered about the legality of the spikes I see on semi trucks in the US. I can't imagine these spikes veering into the rubber of another vehicle's tires would end well. Though based on some cursory searches, it seems many of these spikes are made of plastic [0]

[0] https://bigrigpros.com/why-do-semi-trucks-have-spikes-on-whe...

Those are cosmetic plastic caps.

And even if they weren't they wouldn't be much more damaging to anything than normal semi truck lug nuts.

Think of those like the rumble strips on the side of the road: they're loud and flashy but wont do real harm, and may give you the fraction of a second warning that enables avoiding more serious contact.

If they had this auction in the US prices would be significantly higher. Rolling around in a couple of this Rigs would be pretty bad ass.

are you seeing any prices? It just says "1 dollar" for each listing on my end.

That's just the opening bid. I imagine the sky's the limit for people with lots of money and a burning desire to own some one-of-a-kind cars.

I mean have you guys seen the prices in general in the world right now? Everything is a bit bananas.

When you scroll down on the landing page there are two more items. A PlayStation 1 and 2 solar panels. Lloyds auctioning this for real?

They're also selling "Blockchain Classic Cars". I was too horrified to figure out what that actually means (like an NFT of a random picture of a mustang?)

perfect for Burning Man, especially the Doof Wagon

"Payment can be accepted in any currency, including cryptocurrencies as we outrun the end of civilisation."

Most appropriately timed auction ever.

However, could see Cirque du Soleil picking them up if they could get the additional rights with them.

I have bad news for you. We lost Cirque du Soleil to pandemic, last I heard.

That does not seem to be true. https://twitter.com/Cirque

There is an annual Mad Max 'Cosplay' Festival in Edwards, California with a Wasteland World Car Show.

https://www.wastelandweekend.com/

How boring that they're selling it as a lot. I would've loved to see what the individual cars would end up going for.

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