Matchbox S&S Cadillac Ambulance Ghostbusters Custom
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2024
- Happy Halloween! Do you think it was right to go with the Ecto 1?
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You are awesome mate 😎
This one really takes me back. Years ago, when I was college, I worked as a projectionist two nights a week. I was showing Ghostbusters while it was still in the West End. I still remember the hysteria it caused. People are still watching it all these years later. Amazing. By the way, Marty doing one coat. Well, that's Australia for you - much drier. Best to go with several sparse layers of paint. One thick coat can make small areas, like the rear, a bit jammy. There's more moisture in our air, so one thick coat can leave the finished job looking like orange peel. Mind how you go.
One of my favorite toys as a kid! And my dad drove one for the local ambulance corp.
The chrome detail on the grill and front bumper is really nice on this particular model.
"Sorry, Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought ." ;)
Nobody steps on a church in my town! 1 2 3 roast em!
I'm a Cadillac Nut I've had many of this Casting. Came out Super.great job.
Simple yet elegant....I need this for the collection
He came, he saw, he kicked its arse! Brilliant work
Very nice. The yellow in the headlights is a great touch.
Watched this a while back and considering the views it's had I can not believe it hasn't had 2K likes yet.
i would be proud to have this on my desk at my office
Nice Vintage Matchbox S&S Cadillac. LOve the show. Nice restoration.
That looks so cool! Glad you added the decals for the Ghostbusters look. Beautiful work, Rob!! 👻👻👻
This would go great in my 50 plus collection of Ambulance toys...
The paint looks great, and the chrome is outstanding!
Really like the Ghost Busters logos, even without the other items that were on the car it takes me back to the movie. Thanks for sharing this video
Beautiful car, it doesn't need any thing more, it's great as it is now.
Cadilllacs of that era are just so cool cars 😎
Great job!
Love the mix of ghostbusters and diecast. Huge fan of both. Fantastic work sir
loved the final product. I've been a very big Ghostbusters fan over the years.
Nice subtle Ghostbusters custom, it looks great!
Let's hope it makes the 2000. I collect model ambulances and I have been a paramedic for 38.5 years, so fingers crossed.
thank you for your hard work and service, my children are alive and well thanks to first responders like yourself
With over a 1000 in my collection, there is always room for one more.
Very nice. Ghostbusters isn't the way I would have went, but it still came out great
Looks great. Needs all the equipment on it now.
Love it. Am a huge Ghostbusters Fan, so its lovely to see even a soft mod in that direction
Frickin awesome. I'm just commenting to be eligible for the drawing. What a great idea for that car.
Great job! I first thought you used too much paint, but NOOO! It looks fine. Love the decals.
Love the Ghostbusters look. Very nice mild custom.
That's awesome! A very good design. I wish I had a design like that. It would look good with my collection.
You left the beautiful Cadillac, greetings friend
Are you up for a real challenge? Take a Matchbox, any kind that suits your fancy, and make all the lights work. I don't think it can be done on this small of scale, but Marty got a top light to work so if you can get one to work, with a little messing about, you could probably get them all to appear like they work. A car with a trunk would probably work good, so you could make the rear lights appear to be on with just one tiny LED and some aluminum foil reflectors...
I'm working on a way to replicate the window glass. I kind of did it on one Pontiac firebird already, but the method needs improvement. it uses pieces of soda bottles for the raw material. The biggest problem is that to make a mold, you need a window glass that is in one piece, even if it's scratched up or whatever. I didn't have one to use as a template for the firebird, it was totally missing except for one tiny piece where it originally was held on by the rivet post. Frankly if I had the glass, I would have probably used it and not bothered to try to make one. I could not buy one for it as none were available at the time. Did work out if you're seeing it from the outside, the inside, well that needs to be improved so it can go in like original and not have to be glued in.
Those decals look sharp.
My uncle had the real thing .. He welded metal panels over the Windows on the sides and a curtain in the back and painted it solid black...i remember one Christmas my Grandfather told him " get that darn car out of the driveway everybody will think somebody died here" ..right granddad..with mag rims, side pipes and surfboards on top...lol
Nice paintjob!
Good to hear the Matchbox restoration community gets along (for the most part).
There's been a lot of drama in other hobby groups.
Anyhow, yeah, the Ecto-1 is a very popular vehicle and I have followed another channel of a fellow who actually does custom recreations of famous movie vehicles and I think he said that this vehicle (the Cadillac the Ecto-1 was based on) is getting harder to find for customization. (This same guy is known for doing reproductions of the Ghostbusters Proton Backpacks.) One, it was built over 6 decades ago; two, the fact that super collectors want these cars makes the jobs more expensive; three, there are fewer and fewer of these cars available in a condition that's worth the customization. They sometimes go with a later model year of the same basic car design. I think this customizer said they end up using the 1958 or 1960 version of the Cadillac vehicle. There are a few differences but the 2-year-gap generally doesn't create a huge amount of belly-griping among the customers.
I believe the quote for an Ecto-1 custom was at least in the $110,000 (American) range. Probably more by the time I get done typing these comments!
I haven't seen an Ecto-1 in person. Good thing, though, is that the original screen-used vehicle still exists. They saved it from deteriorating into a pile a few years back.
I think there's a fair chance the ORIGINAL Ecto-1 will show up in next year's Ghostbusters film.
Hopefully, it won't be a repeat of the 2016 mess!
Personally, I'm more of a 1966 Batmobile fan...
Link to a video of a fan who did his own vehicle conversion of a 1959 vehicle into the Ecto-1 => ua-cam.com/video/zUrOSYEt4XY/v-deo.html
That guy spent $20,000 on his conversion.
When you want a restoration/ customise who are you call " Rob Busters"😁 again a joy to watch a lovely makeover.👍
ecto-1 would be an attractive addition to any collection
Looks nice, great job, could easily be brought back to original.
Great job restoring the Cadillac SS Wagon Ambulance in to the classic ECTO 1 from Ghost Busters Car is Awsome and from my favorite Halloween Movie.
It looks amazing. My grandson would absolutely love it. He's so into these old cars for a 5 year old. I have started a collection for him and we just found out we have another granson on the way. I love bringing him back to my childhood when I had many of those as new. Great job!
Looks awesome, would look good in the middle of my display case
Fantastic restoration! :) Really like it. Just FYI, if you put aluminium(Al) with caustic soda into water, it will generate H2 which is flammable. Be careful :)
"Ghostbusters"! It's a classic now, nice work Rob'!
I’m really hooked on the restore of the cars etc
Nice make over change to a ghost busters version....it does look the part
it look great. ghostbusters was the first movie i went to, by myself. it is one of my favorites
The original ecto-1 was restored for the release of the new Ghost Busters a few years ago. Like this one it looks awesome.
Brings back good memories. Quality job as always 😍
A Ghostbusters custom, we know who to call, Rob.
Really enjoyed this video. Excellent result all round. Thanks.
very nice clean build, thumbs up for this one.
"You know, it's just occurred to me we really haven't had a completely successful test of this equipment."
Nifty Ghost Buster Caddy
If I could dwelve into history. The 1966 Cadillac ambulance was a popular ambulance. This ambulance, and others of the day were called meat wagons. The reason was-prior to 1970 most ambulances were owned by funeral homes. The drivers had little to no first aid training. In those days, if you were having a heart attack or had serious injuries your likelihood of surving the trip to the hospital was small but that all changed in 1970.
Due to the TV show "Emergency" paramedic programs swept the country. Between 1970 and 2000 your likelihood of surving a heart attack went fron 5% to 90% due to paramedic programs.
Great job and I have the larger scale, and one of my favorite movies.
ItS to cool💖💖
Very nice touch, love the decals
I really like this old Ambulances
I think that came out very well--the lack of the ECTO-1 gribblies might bother some people, but I think that at this scale, it's near-impossible to make them proportional anyway, so you might as well just have the nice clean lines of the original car.
Y'know, it occurs to me that one thing I've never seen is someone doing up a vintage diecast ambulance to look like the Ghostbusters car _before_ they fixed it up--with the black primer and the ratty old lights and stuff. That could be a fun custom if you're ever looking for something to do with another one of these. (Technically it's not the right kind of ambulance--the one in the movie is a Miller-Meteor, not an S&S--but let's not be pedantic. :)
Another fun thing to do with those decals would be to put them on one of the Mercedes "Binz" ambulances instead. EuroGhostbusters!
Great job. I have one those casting and I want to replicate an ambulance company from back home
I confirm. The Cadillac's millesime 2nd mid/fifties, are the most beautiful sculptures.
Personally, I also like the thirties and the first/mid seventies.
All's, are Cadillac !!!
Hi Rob,what a awesome model to start Halloween, Ghostbusters Cadillac, detail is brilliant the front lights and decals suit the car perfect 👍
Great one Rob. Memories. Sweet ride. Would love to have a real one. Great job. Keep it up.
Great job. I think I had one of those ambulances as a kid. Keep up the good work. Most entertaining and I also learn stuff.
Another great restoration, thank you for sharing..
Looks good..I would love to see one done as a hearse
Hell no don't change it love those movies been watching them and back to the future since I was kid u did a good job I wouldn't change nuthing
Perfect custom for Halloween
Nice custom/restoration looks really awesome 👍👍😊
Great job on the Ghostbusters car
I wasn't convinced at first when you said you were making an ECTO 1 replica, as it's the wrong year - but that is really cool!
Very nice custom the ambulance in its new role looks fine. But you should do a roofrack with all tha ghostbusting stuff... Happy Halloween. .
Great job! Love the GB decals. I hope you get the 2000s likes!
"We came ,we saw, we kicked its ass!" Great one Rob.👻👻👻 Looks very Ghostbusterish, even though it's not a 1959, so a 1964 will have to do !🎃
Great restoration Rob, keep up the good work.
excellent work on a "boo-mobile" resto !!
We came, we saw, we kicked its ass.
Love this makeover and the Ghostbusters theme, a good choice given the date you put out the video. Over the last few weeks I've been getting a few good packages off eBay and a few of the ones that I don't want to add to my pre-loved collection or try to restore myself may end up heading in your direction for you to have a go at. :-)
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Good job mate. Looks great with those decals. Happy Halloween Rob
The geezer on curiosity incorporated has a full size one or a similar ambulance 😁
Great restoration can't wait to see more of your builds.
can n't beat a bit of ghost busters nice job again
Looks awesome! Another fine job as usual! Glad u went with the Ghostbusters look. Happy Halloween!
Love it Rob! Happy Halloween to you and your family, hope the kids got lots of goodies to share!
Another lovely finish
Nice job Rob. I think this is your best one yet
Happy Halloween this looks great with the ghost buster decals
Need to send Marty a foot long hotdog jar.
And a dvd on how to use hot water and caustic soda did you see Martys last effort using it 😁, also did you see his last in boxing where he tested the food that someone sent him couldn't keep a straight face 😂.
Eamonn Haddon I would have sent him one, but in America our hotdogs are sold in shrink wrapped plastic. I saw where he used the caustic soda and it was a mess in his kitchen, and where he exploded the glass but didn’t see the unboxing. I was screaming do that in the sink, but probably wouldn’t have made for good video.
Beautiful work, well done as always!
Very nice restoration, but without all of the external fittings, it probably should have just went back to the stock decals. Perhaps adding all of the equipment could make for a great part II video.
Certainly did not let us down!
Sweet as. Love those decals. Nice one.
Very great result :-). I looks very nice. The good 80's :-)
LIke the lights on the back
Came out great
Wow Rob and Happy Halloween! Really amazing work. I love it!
That paint looks fine to me Rob.👍 I heard Marty say that and did wonder what other restorers would think.I suppose different projects will need different painting styles. The creamy yellow headlights look good. I do tend to prefer the straight restorations but this is such a common casting, I think it's nice to do something a little bit different. I think Matchbox missed a trick with this one; they could have re-released this casting as ECTO 1 after the film came out.
Who ya gonna call?😊
Cheers for now,
Dougie.
The Johnny Lightning one they made is dead on correct!
Who you gonna call? Matchbox Garage! Hmm...doesn't quite have the same cachet. Oh well, we'll work on it. Great work Rob, looks real clean. Happy Halloween!
You should try Tamiya Laquer thinner or Mr Color Leveling thinner. They work so mutch better then X-20A that I never used it again. Keep up the good work.
I do have some lacquer thinner I need to try
Amazing job! Looks fantastic! Keep it up!
Who ya gonna call...... Nice work Rob👍🏻
Great job there Rob.
Thats nice looks smooth .
This came out great.