Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery -- and sometimes the imitation is better than the real thing. Example: Steve Weitheimer's Franco-built Golden Rod, base on a '62 Car Craft cover car. How many of you have tried your hand at cloning an iconic rod -- the Doane Spencer roadster, Ivo and Grabowski Ts, Hirohata Merc, Stone/Woods/Cook Willys, Milner Deuce, etc.? Let's see some pics! (PS - no "Eleanors", please)
A friend of mine built this at his shop in Chicago.Its a exact replica of what Mad Max drove in the first MM movie.
oh so you mean it's like 500x's faster than the rear one..haaa. I heard the real one's top speed was like 16mph or even slower. Can't remember.
It may haved pissed him off a little but I just couldn't resist photoshopping my version of Django's model box t-shirt design.
They say it's built in carbon fiber on a Lincoln Continental chassis from 1973. 20.000 hours of work !!! Dunno, but it sure wasn't built from scratch in one sunny afternoon, ha ha...
that is my friends car, steve tanzella from beverly ma. my merc is in the background. that car runs 10.80s now .. wich is cool but he cant drive it everywhere like he used to..
Good replica, my freinds and I thaught about doing one of the 4 door persuit cars as a spare/loaner for when one of our cars was out of action..... could be done cheap and be fun, well down here anyway.
That Mad Max Interceptor clone RULES!!! (Don't worry about missing the hood stripes (done in flat black)...everyone misses them!) "You can shut the gate on this one, Maxie, it's the Dog's Guts!!!"
They are there. You can't see them very well in the pic. That clone is the second best one I've seen. I saw one in Washington that has it beat. Has a real blower with an ac clutch set up to turn it on. Just like the film. The one from Chi' is a false blower.
Ah! You're right...hard to see the stripes in that photo...they're really only obvious in the one or two scenes in the first film where they show Max driving the car with the camera mounted up front, looking over the hood and past the blower to the interior. "Perhaps it was the result of anxiety!"
I respect Von Franco to no end for his Kookie Clone and the Anderegg clone. He has balls AND conviction! I wish I felt I could do the same. I would turn my 54 into teh Bill Hoffman car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But, I have too many ideas of my own, I dont think I could stick to the original build
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