Michael Myers' Station Wagon FOUND! Iconic Car from John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN (1978) Comes Home
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- For over 40 years the location of the original screen used station wagon from John Carpenter's 1978 film HALLOWEEN has been a mystery until NOW. For close to 30 years a collector has searched for this legendary vehicle hoping to one day bring it back to its former glory and let it be seen by the Halloween fans of the world. At Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Convention the iconic station wagon made its public debut and we met with the owner Joe to get the full story behind how he found and restored this piece of Halloween history.
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Nabbed before American Pickers found it. Nice work.
Were they looking for it? Lol
American Pickers fked everything up.
Lol
Or some dumb ass hot rod show that would've "customized" it. Aka F it up.
@@careful...Icarus 💯
I love when people dig up obscure things like this and bring them back to life.
Someone needs to do this to the Orinco truck from Pet Sematary.
I'm guessing nobody involved with the movie at the time ever thought in a million years there'd be interest in the generic station wagon used in the movie. Now, where's the 77 Monte Carlo?
I was thinking the same thing
I owned a yellow 77 monte for 8 years! I miss that car!
My Mom back in 77 had the same red Monte Carlo . As a matter of fact my Mom let me borrow it to go to the movies with a friend to go see Halloween. Forgotten about that. Thanks for bringing that up.
My dad had one just like it. The only difference was that it had vinyl seats, not cloth.
Not generic now!
im glad people do stuff like this.
There is nothing like the 70’s and 80’s horror flicks. 🤘🏻
Facts
35k well spent she is priceless to the horror community 🖤
“It belongs in a museum!” Amazing that they preserved it. Great video dude!
Museums belong in museums. The future of preservation is here. A minority of any museum's collection is ever on display and for minimal time. A network of collectors has potential for a far better job at locating, restoring, storing and displaying; specially with the internet as a means to do some of these, as well as much needed funding. All of it without necessarily needing any large sponsors but simple enthusiasts. Most of humanity's material products are, after all, permanently outside of museums. And if you ask me, there's where they belong. There's life there.
Museums are cemeteries.
@@fernandoferreira6293 I was quoting Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade. Notice my quotation marks above, but I really enjoyed reading your response and I agree with it. I’ve got relics I’ll never give to a museum.
@@TampaJay I got that, 😆
I restore classic vehicles and I understand the amount of difficulty it can be sometimes. Odd ball vehicles are ten times harder to locate new or used parts for them than the popular ones. Average things like new lens', trim parts, door and window seals would be near impossible to find for that wagon. They are not reproduced. This means locating NOS (new old stock) parts. Very expensive as well. My hats off to the builder for a high quality restoration. I enjoyed this one Sean. Your videos are always well detailed and the guy put a ton of detail in that wagon.
I’m so grateful and thankful that I got to get pictures with this car and sit inside it at the recent Chicago horror convention. This was a big thing on my bucket list to see in my life. It was also nice chatting with the owner. Cool guy for sure !
That's so cool to bring back the actual 1978 Ford stationwagon from the Halloween movie. I always wondered what happened to it. It's beautiful just way it was in the movie. Love it.
I had this EXACT model of car when I had a flea-market stand and used it as my "PICKER" car! It was a tank! 400 cu/in engine; tow bar/towing transmission , and totally loaded! I got tired of COP's stopping me due to the multicolor (bodywork) paintjob, so in the CDN Tire pkg lot I painted it Tremclad Grey with a roller...Blaaaahahaha! That car made me Sooo much $MONEY$ in moving stuff - it took at least 5 ltrs of gas to just warm up in the winter!!
Why would they stop you due to your paintjob? That sounds so stupid.
That's so badass God bless this guy for restoring it. It really does belong in a museum.
That car needs a lil cameo in the next Halloween film. Just have it sitting in background next to other cars. That would be so badass to see
It is in the background albeit for a very short time during the "flashback" scenes in "Halloween Kills" (2021)
Brilliant suggestion!
Yes, very badass… chud. With that, Thank You Brandon! #NazziTrumpsFOff
Incredible I’m glad it’s in the hands of someone who knows its cinematic value & really appreciates it
Hey Jerk...speed kills!! THX for sharing this bro what a iconic piece of movie history, very cool!!!
Beautiful restoration job on that car. We had a '79 Ford LTD wagon, one of my favorite cars growing up. These cars are my era. It's amazing that car still existed, talk about a car nobody bothered to save.
Wow this is so effing cool. I’ve always wondered in the back of my mind where this thing was and to know the owner had no idea 🤯 I assumed it was in a collection in LA somewhere. Thanks for this!!! “Hey jerk, speed kills!” Happy 🎃
I always wondered how Michael learned how to drive being locked up most of his life but I guess when you're the shape driving is just like killing for him it's easy lol.
I've wondered about the same thing. My dad bought a 78 LTD sedan and it was hard to drive. I wrecked it twice and my mom once. However it was very solid. Never heard a rattle anywhere in it as long as we had it.
driving is easy you watch somebody else do it and do what they do well if their a good driver.
Remember Dr Loomis said, "Maybe someone was giving him lessons?" Well, maybe they were! Remember the Thorn cult. It's possible someone at the hospital was connected
Same here, I was thinking 🤔 the same too. 👍
He had 15 years to sit and silently watch how other people did it, since he did hardly anything else I imagine he was able to pay great attention to everything whenever he was driven somewhere
Wow, amazing! After seeing this, now someone needs to track down and find the 1974 Country Squire from The Stepford Wives. Seems like there must have been hundreds of thousands of these wagons between 1973 and 78 as they were literally everywhere, and when he said he can’t locate the correct wiring loom for the power windows because ‘these cars aren’t around anymore’ just seems hard to comprehend.
Blame demolition derbies for killing a lot of cool classics.... Now we just have ugly plastic anemic clown cars everywhere.
The "regular Joe" types of cars disappear surprisingly quickly, especially these old ones due to rust. Hell I even have 30 year old car and I had to stop daily driving it because somethig broke and I just couldn't find the part, took me half a year of searching for it. You really need to have the space for parts cars if you want to own something that old. Unless it's one of these "desireable" overpriced and overrated classics, for which you first have to pay ludicrous amounts of money for.
@@AntonSander Yes, and thanks to tree hugging cry babies around the world, in about a decade or so, those pathetic pieces of craptastic plastic will be all electric as well!
It is absolutely incredible that this car still exists. I recently saw the original Halloween movie, and oddly enough, I wondered, where is that car now? But in the end while watching the Halloween movie, I just assumed that the car was crushed and scrapped long ago. I am so glad the vehicle survives to this day, and in absolutely pristine condition. I was a child in the 70's, and I was 7 years old when the movie Halloween came out. These massive station wagons were everywhere back then. Now, this car is relic and survivor of not only it's time, but an iconic movie car as well. Great video, and I really am happy to see that this movie car is so well taken care of.
“Not a lot of options” *Optioned with power steering, power brakes, electric windows, 400 ci V8, etc* That’s optioned pretty well for 1978 lol
Wow that car is beautiful!
I've always loved old school station wagons.
It's a beast.
You got to drive the car!!!! What a wonderful experience.
Sigh.. The good ol days. Thought I'd never say that when I was a young buck back in the late 70's. I really miss everything about the 70's and 80's. Well done on the restoration. Remember the energy in that beauty is still there.
I’m so glad the car isn’t rusting away in some random field. Such a cool piece of movie history!
This is so awesome! Thanks for taking us along for the ride Sean!
This is the same guy I met at a horror show and he also restored and has the 1958 Plymouth Fury car from John Carpenters movie Christine. This guy does absolutely AMAZING work. 👍🏻👍🏻
You know his name or social media contacts?
This is so amazing that this still exists. Now we also know what the actual color was silver, not tan or even light green as it appears in the film, which had to do more with the stock film they used and source light that they used back then. Maybe Annie's car will be located someday, I'm sure Joe is probably working on tracking that down too. Great Job! 👍👍🎃
Stabbing wagon let's go stalking and killing hell yeah
the mask is also pure white and mouth looks really goofy without lighteffects inthe Dark,looks like a child Kirk mask ,and the Hair was total fluffy,not like all collectors with their overpriced Masks
Maybe they can find Bob's van too? 🤔
@@Endo-uu8mo lmao, and you know this how? just look at a 1975 captain kirk and it’s hair. the masks like the nightowl creep and nag 98 proto are basically exact replicas
That's really neat...!! One of my favorite parts in the movie is when the doctor is standing in front of the Hardware store and Micheal Myers drives by. Hahaha...!! That has always made me laugh. 😂 I remember when I was growing up in the 70's and we loved riding in these station wagons. We didn't wear steat belts back then , so we loved to sit in the very back. I remember seeing them with the wood panels. Some were brown and some were green. Oh the memories. Great video...!! 👍🎃
Bonnie, I totally agree with you! I am 51 years old and my dad had one of those station wagons in the 70's and I always sat in the very back. It even had an automatic window at the rear of the car. In the 70's I thought it was the greatest thing. Oh the memories!
@@jasonhovick6193 , yep... I remember they had the automatic window that would roll up or down for the back door. Boy...We thought we were somebody if we had a station wagon like that back then. lol !!😀 Those were the good ole days...😁😊😉
That is so damn cool ! Cinema history preserved well now. That must have felt so wicked to drive right where Nick was looking out the same exact windshield !
Love the video 🤘🏼
I've been wanting someone to focus on the car from this film for so long and then I see the magnificent thumbnail of this video appear!!
This made my week.
It was a major feature of the film gets no attention from the fans.
What a thoughtful, intelligent and deserving owner it's ended up with.
This movie got me into the car as a model and that front and rear styling look resplendent.
This beats any Dukes of Hazard Dodge Charger hands down.
Congratulations from down under.and thank you for this detailed tour!
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44 years in the making! Wow this would be worth quite a lot now if he decided to sell it!
I find it curious that he had actors who had nothing to do with the ‘78 film sign the glove box. Then again, he tracked it down, bought the car, restored it beautifully. He can do what he wants.
The Pink Cadillac from Goodfellas was insured through my dads ins co back in the mid 90's. If you are a Martin Scorsese fan, good car to hunt for.
You know what’s so crazy is I was thinking about this the other day and thinking that it would be cool if people would do movie car remakes with this car and it’s amazing that this car specifically somehow made it this far that’s just so cool
The story goes that John Carpenter told the production assistant to go to a car rental agency and to rent a "government looking" car for the film. When he got to the local Hertz or Avis, this LTD wagon was the only car that fit the bill. They outfitted it with a wire cage and put Illinois state seals on the doors, then returned it to the car agency without them ever knowing it was being used in a movie.
Great story. Sounds right.
We need no reminder of when the automotive world turned into what UA-cam is turning into now.... *THAT THUMBNAIL WILL GIVE ME NIGHTMARES FOR WEEKS*
They must produce a diecast scale replica !:18 of this. I have been wanting one for years!!
I was thinking that to, a large scale, possibly with working lights and doors that open.
What I've been thinking for ages!
They've done the family trickster from Vacation. This one is a must!!
Do the 'Better Off Dead" wagon next.That might have a 460 or 429 in it.Going by how it did smoke the tire racing the Asians in the Falcon.LOL!
Watching that car coming off the truck, I had a similar reaction....piece of horror movie history for sure!
That would be very cool just to sit in this car muchless drive it a few feet. We had one of these back in the 1970's and they were B-I-G and very floaty. This one looks absolutely brand new and it's so iconic. Very glad it was acquired by someone with the the resources to do it right. It's obviously in very good hands.
Not only the resources, but the intelligence in knowing the history of this car. 35k to restore it is very reasonable too. A lot of the time, the cost of doing a proper restoration or preservation is unbelievably expensive.
Thank you Sean for this info. My wife and I spoke with you at M-M CON a week or so ago. Thank you for your time and effort. Much love from amber and i.
Ps.... she will get with you about the killer klowns fan page. And just so he knows I love him to .....#bringchrisnelsontotheeastcoast!!!!!
That’s beautiful! What an awesome collection…John Carpenter movie cars. Just awesome
I owned a '76 LTD wagon with the 400cid engine. Great memories!
I wonder whatever happened to the car in the movie "The Wraith". Now that was a sick car. It was a Dodge M4S Turbo Interceptor. Baddest car ever!
It sold on Craigslist in 2015, whereabouts unknown now.
Sean, remember "Speed Kills". That's awesome you got to drive it.
that maybe the coolest thing I've seen this year
The owner of this wagon has one of the best collection of movie cars. Very knowledgeable and a nice guy too.
The feeling of sitting inside the car must of been insanely rad🤯
I am not a car guy, but this was fascinating. Love the video! Even more, I love that the guys who restore these cars appreciate the history and significance they have.
I'm not a "car guy" either but I probably AM a "movie car car guy". I would KILL to have an ECTO. I actually have a white MINI Cooper and had some Ghostbusters logo magnets made and put them on the doors of my car a few years ago and people thought it was awesome. My wife thought it was embarrassingly nerdy though. LOL! I also would kill for a Delorean. I'm also a UPS man and have delivered to multiple people that have Jurassic Park Jeeps and they're pretty cool looking too.
You deserved it Sean!!
You've made an incredible job for the fans of the franchise! 🎃
I can see, Sean! Driving that car. 👍
I had a ‘77. I loved that car. The rust belt finally got it.
I'm a sentimental guy which means I see a soul in almost everything. That care is a legend, man. It deserves the fancy makeover you gave it. Better than new. Versus just restoring it to its dingy 1978 look and slapping a Halloween sticker on there to further its humiliation.
I'm glad somebody cared enough to go through all the trouble to find and restore that car. Funny, people probably rented it thinking it looked like the car from Halloween. Awesome
WOW!! A horror nerd like myself can fully appreciate the significance and coolness of this iconic car! Thanks for letting us see this beauty 🔪
Back in the day, my very first vehicle was a station wagon exactly like this one, but mine was purple! haha
Did you call it the Shaggin’ Wagon?
@@mistered9435 ..sure did! The big purple shaggin' wagon ;-)
🤣😎🚙
Even if its not thee Halloween car it would still be a beauty
My folks had one of these for a few years. I can’t recall what year, perhaps ‘74 or ‘75. My dad worked for Ford and our family spent the summer of ‘71 in Southern California. While we were there, my dad rented a new Country Squire wagon. It was a fun car to see California and Mexico from. It took us everywhere from Disneyland to Tijuana. When we got home from our trip, my dad couldn’t get that big wagon out of his mind. He wanted one, and when he was ready for a new car, he ordered a fully loaded one. It was dark green, with the same color interior. When he brought it home, he was disappointed with my mother’s reaction. She had always wanted a Cougar, and this huge wagon wasn’t a Cougar. I was happy with it, especially on vacations to northern Michigan. He kept it a few years and in 1977, he took my mom and I to the nearby Mercury dealer. He finally ordered the Cougar she wanted and I got to pick out the color and wheel caps. We had to wait 6 months because the car was selling so well, Ford wouldn’t accept any A plan orders until sales cooled off. In late spring my dad finally drove our beautiful new 4 door Mercury Cougar Brougham into our driveway. It was a head turner, everybody liked it. I wish I still had it, that Cougar was my first car when I moved out. It is now considered rare since it was in production for only a few years. The Cougar wagon is ever rarer. Ford made beautiful cars then. I stopped being Ford loyal when they dropped cars altogether and came up with the brilliant idea that everyone wanted a truck. Maybe they’ll go back to car production, but I doubt it.
Now THAT'S dedication.
I noticed that the decal on Joe's car is on the drivers side door, in the movie it's on both doors, close enough. Joe did a hell of a job restoring this creepy wagon.
Amazing video, I also saw this as a 13 year old at the Drive-In back in the 70s. That thing is a boat!
So Loomis was hanging out in the bushes all night at the Myers House and all he had to do was turn around to see the wagon? Dude could have saved a few lives if just turned around. Lol
Eh Larnie! Get your ass away from there!
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He was actually walking up and down the street when he spots the car. Michael moved the car several times that night.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 He wasn’t walking down the street when he saw the wagon, He was standing in the same place he had been standing all night. Behind the bush at the Myers house. Go watch it and you will see…
Stuffed in a barn for years wow this is cool!
God bless the man that breathed life into this 1 of a kind horror car!
Would’ve loved to see the guy’s reaction if Sean decided to re-enact the slam on the breaks moment… lol
VERY C🎃🎃L
WOW… so long time ago and looks so NEWWWW … Respect !!!
He was doing very well last night.Glad to see the car is in the good *shape* again
I remember being scared as a young kid watching this movie. My neighbors growing up drove a silver Ford LTD wagon, I believe it was a 1976 model. It looked identical to this, including the wheel covers. The only differences were it had a roof rack, it had a blue vinyl interior (same pattern on the seats though) and it had power windows. At the time, these cars were very common - so driving one of these was not unique or anything. Now I want to know if the 76 / 77 burgundy Monte Carlo still exists from this movie?
Watched another video where it shows Nick Castle signing the door panel they are displaying in this video. Very cool.
“ Is that Devon Graham?” Lol
I didn’t think any vehicles from the film survived, since most were rented, figured it went to the scrap yard years ago. Incredible find!
What's amazing this that this car was even found in the first place. So many of these cars were simply parted out in local wrecking yards all over the country. I've got to wonder how many of these cars still exist?
That was awesome! If I saw that car in person I'd probably start crying, it holds so much nostalgia. Halloween was the very first horror movie I had ever seen, I was only 4 years old but I remember it.
Awesome video as always Sean. I was honored to be on set during filming! (I was the fan-boy nephew of Joe's who asked you for a selfie lmao). Flashback Weekend was a blast, and it was so much fun being able to play Mr.Myers alongside the wagon with all the fans.
I honestly think the wagon was Champagne Metallic instead of silver. In the film, the Chrome and paint are two distinct colors
And all this time I thought it was a light gold color. That's amazing that it was still around after all this time, much less available to find and buy.
I always thought the color was a light bronze. Learned something new.
So glad i got to see this thing in person at the Flashback Chicago con. Sean really is the luckiest horror fan in the world haha
I would get a PA system and ride around in that thing playing the theme song.
That’s just absolutely incredible Sean ! Must have been such a trip to have driven that car ! Can only imagine 🔥🎃🔥
Thats beautiful. Good to have an old friend back and treated right.
Hey jerk, speed kills !!!!!!
This is great. Now I want a 70's Ford wagon.
Thanks for talking to this guy what a find
I own the exact same car but mines blue. I’ve owned a lot of older cars but this one gives me the most comments in public.
That's Clean
I was hoping it whould have been cared for better with all original paint and interior. But nice it was saved at all.
That’s pretty cool. I’m happy you shared this. That’s awesome. 👍
He schould show that car to Nick Castle that would be so cool to see his reaction to the original car he drove for the movie
OUTSTANDING! I love movie cars and owning a very rare Police car I can relate to "Hard to find parts". I saw this car at a show in Kingston NY a while back....Just amazing! Thanks again for keeping the history alive!
Freaking awesome! Small stories like this add so much character to our favourite films! Thank you Sean!
I had an identical LTD wagon (Burgundy Interior, though) Got carjacked in Detroit. Never seen it again! That was a cool wagon.
We had a similar station wagon. We called the fold out seats in the back the “back back “. Good times.
Awesome restoration job. A labor of love, obviously!
My mind is blown. This is just incredible to watch. This gentleman did an amazing job restoring this vehicle. I always say horror fans are the best. What a dream to be able to drive it. My dream horror movie vehicle that I would love to own in Ben Mears jeep from Salem’s Lot. I would kill to find that. As I have said before, you are my hero Sean
re: the Mears Jeep...Being unable to close the door on the first try would drive you nuts, though!
@@cwbooks very true but I would secretly love it. Ha ha
Now that is neat
Despite that it was damaged by rodents and animals in a barn for the past 40 years... he was lucky to find it in anykind of existance because most of the old 1970's Ford LTD Wagons ended up in the junkyard crushers.
Labor of love... Good job Joe.
How cool is that!! I just recently did a search for that wagon and found zilch! Awesomeness
Me to looking for its appearance schedule
Probably the second most famous station wagon in movie history, behind the Wagon Queen Family Truckster of course. Now I wonder what happened to the 1974 Ford wagon that Oliver Reed drove in Burnt Offerings.
Myers station wagon goes missing for 40+ years.. is found and signed by James Courtney and Danielle Harris 😆 very cool though, hope it’s easy to visit someday