![]() ![]() Cranky Frank is the trusted if psychotic point man for Immortan’s personal retinue, convoy guard and guide to the Gigahorse: The beast that put the ’S’ in car and the ‘F’ in utility. The radically chop-topped Holden FJ Rat Rod with a 4-intake supercharged V8 hurtles a crew of two – A driver blinded by a tower of carburetors and a belt-driven blower along with a tail-gunner eating dust and spitting death and caltrops from the rear tray. FDK’s slick silver finish, the drums of fuel, the double-barreled flamethrower and the triple exhaust pipes are love poems to the huge machine heating and condensing and excreting precious guzzolene as it roars across the empty plains in pursuit and pillage. Bring it on…Ī supercharged V8 Volkswagen, FDK operates as convoy guard from Gastown for the People Eater’s mercedes limousine: The horizontal cracking tower that is the fuel truck. A dozen elite war boys hunker down on the truck and trailers of this massive machine and a convoy of cars and motorbikes track with her across the desert, a finger to the Apocalypse and the downfall of man. A beast of war as much a beast of burden, piloted by the most trusted warrior and heralded driver of the Citidal, Furiosa. She (and ‘she’ she most definitely is) bestrides the Fury Road. Mutant lovechild of semi-trailer and hotrod, twin V8’s end-to-end, 6 wheel driver, eighteen-wheeled leviathan charged with the barter of fluids and firearms that binds the three city states of the Wasteland in tenuous alliance. Nux’s true God is the engine and his church the car. He has cast a totem of skull and mask on the crucifix quiver that titlts toward battle and wrought a steering wheel of doll head and cable that venerates his master, Immortan Joe. Nux is the deliver of feather, the fan and the fanatic, a loyal servant and lethal savant and the car is his art, hope and heart. ![]() This vehicle is every hotrodders dream and the perfect chariot for young Nux, a true believer and gun driver in the citadel Armada who puts the fun back in fundamental and whose failing flesh fetishes the fury and power of the V8 he hopes will lead him to Valhalla. The super-turbocharged, nitrous-boosted 5-window deuce Coupe. Armed with whaler’s harpoon and the Devil’s own flamethrower, the Gigahorse is lively the first thing you hear and the last thing you see on the fury road. The flagship of the Citadel’s Armada, the Gigahorse is memory of past glory and pledge of future victory. A legend spotted in the gutter, punch drunk but still proud, left behind by history’s downward spiral, out of place but never out of contention… Simply the best, Tina.Ī pair of 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Villes in flagrante delicti are split, widened and mounted to one other, pitched at a rakish angle by huge double rear wheels and peered by twin V8’s slaved to a handmade gearbox capable of harnessing and harmonizing the ultimate power of the ultimate leader. Scott hat and belt-driven blower intact but battered, rear tire more rag than rubber, rusted through and rattling with one too many repairs and far too few original parts. Once King of the Highway now a wounded beast of salvage and sand, forced off road and running on the smell of an oily rag. Max’s original muscle car, the glorious XB Falcon Coupe. Think we could get any of these to race the Baja 1000? The vehicles are not showpieces, but built and modified to perform live stunts on a massive scale. The series has since had a lasting influence on apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, touching on the idea of a dystopian future as gangs roar across the empty plains in pursuit and pillage of what’s left of the fading population.Īs a means to navigate the Australian post-apocalyptic Outback, George Miller’s team conceptualized some pretty radical off-road vehicles worthy for only those willing to man the flamethrowers, harpoons, machine guns and Molotov grenades that outfit the nitrous-boosted machines. The franchise began as the film Mad Max, starring Mel Gibson, and was followed by two sequels: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). “Mad Max: Fury Road” is a return to the world of road warrior, Max Rockatansky, and develops the plot originally started in 1979. The latest film in the legendary Mad Max franchise is scheduled for worldwide release on May 15th, 2015. ![]()
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