Evolution of the Interceptor
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In the world of Mad Max, even one of the most iconic movies car's in the Last of the V8 Pursuit Specials had its start elsewhere prior and has had its share of changes over the many years since it first rolled onto our screes.
Starting off as a stock Australian Ford Falcon XB GT, this muscle car and movie icon was given a star treatment for its 1979 film debut and has gone on to be the ultimate dream car of many fans over the years, becoming perhaps the ultimate V8 police car in its sleek black appearance.
Here at MFP we take a look into the build and changes of George Miller's Mad Max drive of The Interceptor and try and give as best a detailed documentation of what transformed this 70s Aussie car into the icon it has become in the motor and movie world.
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I find it pretty incredible that the original Interceptor not only survived both films but also survived being scrapped and was eventually restored and put in a museum.
It's had quite a life.
But today most of the OG parts have been stripped off the car & replaced. Not worth the 2.5 mill they are asking for it.
I remember walking through Melbourne back in the day, I believe Bourke Street mall and came across a black Ford coupe parked at a 45 degree angle (no blower) and a simple A framed sign stating that this is the car used in the new movie "Mad Max" that will be showing in the cinemas soon and that it was used to shoot the high speed camera shots, there was nobody looking at it, no one had heard of the movie, I was the only one standing there looking at it, thought it was cool and walked off.
Ive seen pictures of it with the blower removed. When they gave the car back to the guy who built it, he removed the blower and made a handful of minor changes to make it more "streetable"
That's an awesome memory!
@@blitzrc4713 ....Agreed!
That Is An Awesome Memory To Keep In Your File Cabinet!
I Love Hearing Stuff Like That!
I LOVE Madmax, ive played the game 100+ times, watched all of the movies so many times.
this brings warmth to my heart!
It's a shame the interceptor is pretty useless on e you unlock it in the game.
WB needs to make a sequel to that game. It's so much fun!
@@Big_Jeff1 There are rumors that they are, and since i have done countless playthroughs, i know alot of the voice lines i really wish for this to be true
Back in the 80's I had an arctic white 302 XB GS coupe with black stripes down the sides. Really miss that car with that unmistakable old Ford manky smell, leaky rear window, no power steering, drooping doors too heavy for their hinges, rattles and rust. Wish I still had it.
As a founding member of the "Fussy Buggars Club" of Mad Max replica owners, I say well done!
There was none of the misinformation that is out there about the car that many others have continued to spew.
Good to see Cam's name mentioned but he actually built THREE copies of the Black and two Razor colas.
Glad to see it was aproved by an expert such as your self. This video could be good reference the next time I might want to make a replica of the black on black. Be it virtual or scale model
@torinoscj if you think about his reply you might just get more confiused
What would you think would be a nice candidate to replicate the black on black?
Since I'm in the states I was thinking the, 71~74 Mustang fastback, The body looks similar but also a very pricey car.😕💯
Thanks!🤙🤙🤙
Great to see more of the history of these cars, and to see the effect they’ve had on film fans. I mean, this was the car I wanted to have when I left the theater back in 82. Looking forward to more of these videos!
On May 22, 1982, I turned 11 years old. My brother took me to see The Road Warrior, and it blew my mind. I was so awestruck by what I'd just seen, he turned me around and bought us another set of tickets to see it again.
That was when I fell in love with cars in general, muscle cars in particular, and especially the MAD MAX INTERCEPTOR!
A few years later, when the original Mad Max movie came out on VHS, I was able to more appreciate what went into the car's build and Max's previous adventures while driving it.
Now, the man called Max, and his car, exist only in my dreams.
So cool to get even more info on the origins of the greatest police interceptor of all time. I have always loved this car since the first time I saw it as a kid. Being from the US, I originally thought this was a Mustang. I kept telling myself when I grew up that I wanted a car like it. One day....
Get yourself a Ford Mustang SVT (Terminator) Cobra, from 2003/4!
Find yourself a 71-73 mustang and make that dream a reality my man.
@@RegulerShowTV I might just have to make that actually happen
My first car was a '73 Ford Grand Torino with a 351 Cleveland under the hood. Badass car...
My dad always said MFP stood for "Mutha-F*ckin Police" 🤣
fun story: my father was actually the one who restored the car in his shop with his friends for the second movie, he has pictures to prove it its quite interesting
Back in the 70’s here in rural Victoria, Australia I was a teenager. I never forget when my late father came home driving a Ford XA Superbird coupe. Yes before anyone says they didn’t exist, they did! Dad’s had a white body with a deep blue metallic bonnet, deep blue matching paint along the sills etc & a deep blue falcon “superbird” decal on each rear quarter panel. It ran a 302. The John Goss came out after this model. Anyway going to school when Mad Max came out, even my school mates thought it was a cool car. When I was 19 I “almost” bought an XB Ford Falcon GT COUPE! It was mine to buy but I was a so called responsible apprentice!🤪🤬 I do now own a ‘68 Ford Mustang GT390, which I’m pretty happy with!👍🏼😎
Damn these Falcons are sweet
My sister had a black mk1 Honda CRX, I wanted to built it into a kind of "mini-interceptor" with side pipes and roof spoilers and wide black steelies xD
The front mask and lights were already very Interceptor-like. Too bad it was in such bad condition it couldn´t be kept on the road anymore.
I was thinking of doing the same to my mk2, but they are quite rare nowadays and it was in original shape, so I decided to restore it.
I´d still want to do a Mad Max inspired car one day, something like the red "Bat" XA coupe from the second movie x3
Terrific video. Can’t believe how good all the detail presented here is. Really neat.
Thank you very much. Much appreciated.
Outstanding research and very informative! I cant get enough of the MM trivia and movie lore!! !
My favorite movies of all time.... I bet I've watched THE ROAD WARRIOR over 200 times, less followed by Mad Max, Fury Road and then Beyond Thunder Dome.
Another fantastic video and background information about this road movie icon! Your research and presentation is brilliant and very much appreciated by this Mad Max tragic 😃 Best wishes for the growth of the channel!
Cheers. Much appreciated.
Amazing cars. Amazing video!
Nice vid, I like the CGI models and all the shots and comparisons of the car over the years.
Thanks.
The Road Warrior will always be my favorite movie.
That’s some serious research. Well done.
Looks so much like a Mach one it’s crazy! Super cool car, thanks for sharing!!🍻
Thank you for the awesome videos
Thank you for your great comment.
Being a Florida man who happens to be a Mad Max fan I appreciate this video, thanks homie... Errrrrr Mate! :) Fun fact... I own a 2005 GTO, which was made by Holden Australia, every time I sit in it for some reason it gives me those Mad Max vibes; can't explain it I just dig Aussie cars... If I could get a Yute without having to give up a testicle or a first born I would.... Just thought I'd share.
I was able to get a ride in a Interceptor at a comic-convention in the states. What a ride!!! Still brings a smile to my face every time I think about it.
Thanks for Great update on your previous vid.
I drive a 2015 S550 Ford Mustang, inspired by this car.. 👍
Very interesting, thanks for compiling, narrating and ousting. DM.
This is one of those cars every boy wanted, that grew up in the 80's. Well this one, Christine and the De Lorian from back to the future lol
Excellent doco
Love it ❤
MFP Forever !!!!!!
Such a cool, creative and inspired vehicle. A remarkable tool to tell an amazing story with deep characters.
Awesome video :-)
Thank you.
Awesome job mate!!!!
Thank you.
Thank you with so much information I love that car always have mad Max Beautiful design for car enthusiast Really is a piece of history
You are welcome.
Awesome upload
Thank you.
I was a kid when fury road came out and absolutely loved that movie and would later go and watch the older movies in the series. Looking back, mad max definitely inspired my love of cars and has helped make me who I am today.(that and hot wheels) I’m now a mechanic working in a Chevrolet dealership and every so often I still find myself binge watching the mad max movies. Can’t wait for the next one!
When you were a kid, 7 years ago?
You must've been a prodigy in Vo-Ag....
@@codymoe4986 I would have been twelve when Fury road came out and now I’m 19. Also I’m in a GM sponsored automotive program so it was pretty easy to get placed into a dealership.
Can you make a video about Nightrider's Holden Monaro?
Hi..yes pls…As many details as usual per your videos..great stuff 😊
@@2DaysAgoISawAVehicle Who the heck are you?
@@petranz0335 someone who wants a video about the Monaro…Don’t be unnecessarily rude dude
@@2DaysAgoISawAVehicle oh, sorry my bad.
@@petranz0335 nevermind😊..
Not Satin Black; It was Matte Black.
Paint scheme
The paint scheme was described as "Black on Black" by the movie’s art director, Jon Dowding. Ray interpreted it as gloss and matte black similar to the factory XB GT design, differing only in swooping up from the rear wheel arch to follow the line of the rear spoiler. The paint was done by Rob Smythe, Beckerley's friend from a former place of employment. Mad Max Fandom site
IMHO most iconic vehicle in all of cinema; RIP Byron.
Its not entirely absent from beyond Thunderdome, a keen eye will spot an interceptor shell as the cab of Max's camel wagon....
No, there has been discussions about it, though the shell is part of the Ford lineup of 1972-1976 due to the dashboard. However it is based on a four door sadan model, some suspect due to the steering wheel it could be either a ZF or ZG Fairlane or a P5 LTD. It has not been 100% confirmed as no good production or build of the car photos or footage have been found.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions i always figured G Miller had it in headcanon to be Max's old car or the one he would "rebuild" as a "new" interceptor to explain the cars existence in subsequent stories. i.e. the interceptor showing up in fury road, and now possibly in furiosa as well, even though it gets destroyed... seemingly over and over...
@@russellknight5288 I wanted it to be that way. Where Max was so attached to his black on black he went back after the events of MM2 and salvaged what he could. But alas, not to be. But at least Max is a Ford man through and through and the shell of choice was similar to his old MFP yellow Interceptor.
Is there a website or something on the Mad Max motorcycles?
Very nice motor indeed 👌 👍
Just found you. Great channel! Subd.
Thank you very much.
This is hands down the most badass looking car.
I was 17 when Mad Max came out and 19 when Mad Max 2 came out and us young blokes were hooked on it. I guess it shows the difference between Australians and Americans as non of us would be seen dead driving a copy of the interceptor around. The tag “wanker” would quickly be applied to you. Now XA, XB, XC coupes are so hard to find here because so many are being shipped to the US so people can have their own to drive. As young rev heads we recognised all the cars in the film and most of us had similar Aussie muscle cars so we loved it and felt that it was a film made by Aussies for Aussies never thinking how big it would become. A bit like AC/DC really. Back in the ‘80s Australia wasn’t known for exporting entertainment. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
id love to have the standard falcon xb. i love the mad max version as well, but just to have the base xb would be fine.
It's truly an amazing car for the first two movies and I like what they did with it in fury road I'm jealous of those who can afford to have the car built and in their collection
ahh too have Ford bring back these as retro muscle cars would be awesome... i owned a 68 ford torino and loved it... it may not have been one of these but i have seen people turn them into the pursuit specials LOL be well and thank you for this video and all videos on the mad maxverse...
My first car was a '69 Rino GT 390.....no 17yr old should have that as a first car 😂😂😂
@@tonybowman8902 is why i got mine at 15 LOL lots of street racing.. got a great story...blew a head gasket and was running super hot and 20 miles from home.. had to throw her in neutral at every light to keep her running and goose her.. a dude in a dodge coronet 500 pulled up and thought i wanted to race and i kept waving him off shaking my head no.. finally everyone said it's a long way home and she will probably be done so race him.. so i did... she won and got home barely puttering up and a friend jumped out and grabbed the water hose and we cooled her down before shutting her off..tore the engine down and sent the block and heads off and they were fine and had kept the standard bore LOL good times... lost her to a house fire though.. been kinda looking again here and there. be well my friend.
thanks
best watch
You have made a subscriber out of me. I cannot tell you how many times my idiot friends and I tried to replicate the famous burnout scene from the original movie, you know the one with the guy holding the front brake of his big Zed and doing a 360.
Cheers mate. I tried that years ago with my TZR. Only cause its a 125, it was never going to be as impressive.
The interceptor is a cool movie car of course, but I remember watching the Max movies for the first time as a kid and thinking: “If fuel is the most precious and rare resource in the post-apocalyptic future, why do they all drive the thirstiest cars ever made?” Technically, Max should have had a Nissan Leaf 😂
Simple engines are easier to maintain. Back then, there were not that many 4 cylinder engines that had speed unlike today. And now, modern engines are so complicated due to electronics and on board computers, the basic V8 or the higher performance one is the difference between owning a .22 pistol with a 44 Magnum. It's like watching those videos of cars sitting for 40 years, then getting started. Old engines are just so much easier to fix.
I would love to own the pursuit special from the 1st movie. Still such a cool car in my eyes.
Still one of my favourite car movies of all time
Original from the first movie the best . Thanks
Yes
Great job ! These cars have gone through the roof in cost to buy one..bringing up to 100k for a decent car.
Yeah.... call me old fashioned, but despite the fact that I watched part 2 before the original, the Pursuit Special (it's not an Interceptor!!) from Mad Max is still my favorite design. Its short introductory scene in that film alone is worth the price of admission... :)
Feel free to check out a recent video done on the channel arguing that Pursuit Special is the correct name.
Fury Road happened before Thunderdome. Thats why he doesnt have the Interceptor in Thunderdome but he still has his jacket which he then lost. Hes older with gray hair in Thunderdome and more talkative after getting redemption with Furiosa. The Fury Road Interceptor was the last time he rebuilt it, trying to keep a part of his past. Remember in the first movie, they told Max it was built from scratch piece by piece. He did the same after Road Warrior and rebuilt the Interceptor that we see in the beginning of Fury Road. He never rebuilt it after Fury Road because he found redemption from his past. Anything in Thunderdome is just random meaningless transportation to him compared to the Interceptor that he moved on from. This is my favorite and most logical and chronological theory of the Interceptor's timeline 🤔✌🏽
This is very different to the story I'd hears over the years of how the original car came to be. I was always told, and found a few youtube videos saying the same, that the original car was purchase from the original owner, who built it, following a chance drive by. This is the first time I've heard this chain of events.
Fun fact about the blower it was a real 6-71 weiand blower at one point (at least in the first movie I'm unsure about the blower from the second movie as the guy I know had nothing to do with it) they gutted it and put a magneto driven fan clutch hooked up to a semi gear switch controller.
Edit after watching the video you did mention that so nevermind.
Got an Xb coupe 351 4 speed top loader 9" rear
I had always hoped that someone would use CGI to go back and alter the start of MM3 Beyond Thunderdome to replace the buggy being pulled by Camels to the fire damaged interceptor and again later in the movie when they are working on it and Max (Mel) says “That’s my car!” Would have kept the continuity in the movies.
wow up until this very moment I had always thought that car actually WAS the Interceptor!
According to the Fury Road tie in comics, Max started building a new Interceptor shortly after Mad Max 2, doing various jobs for people across the wasteland in exchange for car parts to rebuild his car. So that means that somewhere during Beyond Thunderdome, his Interceptor exists, but off screen.
The White 11/1973 XB GT Coupe was sold from a Ford Dealership in Orange NSW when it was Brand New. It had NSW rego number plates and found it's way to Victoria in 1975 and was in Bob Jane Motors in Melbourne as they put the first Vic number plate on the White Coupe. Do not believe it was from any Auction as i have the first Vic rego papers to the Coupe that become the Mad Max Black XB GT Coupe.
the headlights were not new at the time because the movie was made in 1979 and the rectangular headlights were new in 1976 .
The movie was in production in 1977. The car was commissioned to be built before production started. The XC was the latest and newest Falcon of the time and came out in September of 1976.
Silly question but I'd like to ask what sort of cars power and characteristics could you build that would be comparable to the interceptor today? Say you'd buy a BMW for a project build or something that can lay down that power/speed which you can do in a shell that's more readily available then the ford car.
the Interceptor is a cool car
Cars were cool as fk back in the day. So glad I got a mustang gt even though I had the choice between an m4 and stinger. Nothing beats the feeling and character
How rad are Australian cars?
That Fury Road disaster.....ug.
What a journey. I remember in the 2000’s a guy in Melbourne was asking 70k for a replica build. I wish I had the money then, not it’s worth more then my house to have one built
Very comprehensive breakdown of this iconic car. The narration is too fast but otherwise a very interesting video.
I love the car. And I loved Fury Road. My only gripe was that there wasn't much of the Interceptor. I really want the Furiosa film to stay true to her in Fury road, just kicking all of the arse and taking all of the names. But her vehicle of choice will be where i will judge it i think. As i hear it is a prequal. So maybe its an unmodified or less modified War Rig? But I want the Interceptor to live on the same way the Falcon does in new star wars (regardless of how i dislike the new films) I do want her to also have a memorable vehicle and sidearm. Max had the interceptor and the sawn off. Seeing her use an explosive scrap crossbow it would be mint to see her using that for both stealth and large explosives as a sidearm to say the SKS that we also see her use. But the car/bike/truck will be the real deciding factor for me.
Should check out the “mad max bible” youtube channel. It has lots of leaked pictures on all the vehicles and movie sets from the upcoming Furiosa.
I want one
I still want this car irl.🙃
Question, Why the Ford Falcon of this model is not sold in the USA?
It might have something to do with the fact that the US come this point were going through the oil crisis and started to radically redesign their cars and were mostly dropping their classic "Coke Bottle" design cars for the more boxier Caddie style which we in Australia did not get and kinda skipped over. This coupe design started in 1972 and stayed till 1979 and then we went for the more European style.
I like it it evolved from a car that was designed to chase criminals to a car that outruns chasers
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I hope the Interceptor makes an appearance in this new Furiosa film. Its just not the same without the Pursuit Special. Look how disappointing Beyond Thunderdome was!
Yea, there’s a leaked picture of an interceptor on a set from Furiosa.
There seems to be another picture that shows the front of it. It looks more akin to how it looked in the first two films, which is nice to see.
Esse é o carro robusto perfeito para o fim do mundo.
i have a video (pretty recent, last year) walk around of it on my channel in it's current form.
The BLACK on BLACK!
Dunno if this has already been said but the Interceptor DOES appear in Beyond Thunderdome- although its mainly just the chassis and cab. I wish they called more attention to it but it looks like Max was trying to get the parts together to rebuild the Interceptor and had to haul it around on a makeshift wagon being dragged by camels.
Unfortunately it is not. As much as I wish it were, the chassis that Max is towing at the beginning is loosely identified as either a ZG Ford Fairlane, or a P5 LTD as the body is that of a four door, yet it is very close to the style of Ford Max was driving in the beginning of MM1, there is a slight possibility it could be an XB or XA according to the cockpit dash, but most seem to lean towards a ZG due to a longer wheelbase. There are no fully confirmed photos to date to confirm it's origin of model. But it was a 4 door.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions Beyond Thunderdome was an American production, wasn't it? They maybe tried to get the correct Falcon XB but with it being a rare care by that point they probably figured with the state the car would be in for the Camel Wagon most viewers won't be able to tell it apart with an XA body.
Some might view it differently but I think the car chassis was supposed to represent the Black on Black with Max scavenging for parts to repair it like in the later comic series of the 2015 video game.
@@NikkiWrightVGM This was still an Australian production, just with more US financial backing from WB. In 1984 when production started, the Ford XB was not rare at all as it was only a 10 year old car and sold a lot of units and was relitivly cheap to get. My dad was able to get my older brother an XB sedan (basic model with a six in it) for about $400 in the early 90s.
In the comic book which was not canon within the storyline here when this was being made, the pursuit special was elsewhere and this was a different transport. With such a fire from part 2 after the crash, there would be no trace of the original dashboard left.
So are you running on nitro too? You should try NOS. I love MM2, but for me it's the original or nothing! Fury-hosa crap! And yeah no Mel, no Max!! As an American I humbly submit this opinion and Thank you for your research and educating me as in many of the facts of the originals creation I did not know. Definite thumbs up and God Bless Australia!
I just hope they stop destroying it in the movies
Mad max 1 & 2 coloca no bolso todos os outros
@@leonardorossi5130 tmbm nao gostei foi muito enfeitado
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Disobey me, my puppy.
As far as I'm concerned, the franchise ended as soon as the credits rolled for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Fury Road is weird in my book, as a stand alone movie I give it 4 out of 5 stars, but as a Mad Max movie I only give it 2, that's not because Mel Gibson isn't in it or that there's timeline problems or anything like that, it's the cinematography, if doesn't feel like it's in the same universe because of that, there's too many cut shots, even in the Road Warrior there was only 30 some, but in Fury Road there's over 200.
Mad Max, The Road Warrior and Thunderdome all have the same look and feel that leaves you with the impression that they were all made by the same movie makers but Fury Road in comparison feels like it was made by entirely different people from an entirely different studio system, like it's an American or British film and not something born of the Australian New Wave Cinema Movement.
It's a great vid ..right up to the line "to make it street legal the Weiland blower was removed" .. this maybe very misleading the blower was never attached to the drive motor .. it was literally bolted to the hood / bonnet.. with a small electric (I believe a starter) motor ..aside from possible obstruction of view laws it was legal
Unfortunately no. In Australia, cars with super chargers sticking out so high are not fully allowed on the road without some kind of special permit, and usually it means only drivable on weekends and to go to car show events. The idea is not about the "view" of the driver being obstructed (though it is part of it) the idea is that in the event of a pedestrian being hit, there is no objects on the bonnet that will stop a body from rolling over if collision takes place. A hard edge super charger so far out of the bonnet would be seen as a lethal addition on the car if a person was to be hit.
@@MFPMapFilmProductions oh .. thats a good 1 to know
do the fall guy gmc🥰
You can find it mentioned in our top 10 80s TV cars and top 10 hottest car ladies of the 80s video on this channel.
As always, poor old me gets over shadowed by my car...
where did the holden panel van end up the car owned by max and his wife
From what I can roughly remember without looking it up, it belonged to one of the crew, possibly the mechanics department. A young man who had it exactly as presented in the film, and he let the producers use it and then it was returned. If there is more to this story and it's worth exploring, it might make it to a future video.
I don't think the narrator was speaking fast enough. Surely he could do better...
saying it "the most" iconic movie car may be an over statement, its up there but i dont thing its number one, the bullet car easily tops this one
"One of the most" was said (if you are referring to what was said at the beginning). As much as I would like to say it is, I know it's not everybody's cup of tea.
1. The number 1 car from Fury Road is actually supercharged. You can literally hear it when it's been started at events and behind the scenes.
2. It's canonically the same car from the first movie
Pursuit Special you mean.
PLEASE! Slow down, and enunciate!
Yes!!! Agreed :-/