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Mad Max Fury Road vehicle auction
- h2odragon 5y agoI'd rather build my own. Mountable weapons are a bitch in the USA, the BATF gets all up and over people for making anything with real destructive potential. Spikes and saws and shit get the cops excited too, out on the roads.
- dharmab 5y agoThese vehicles aren't suitable for street use. In the making of material they discuss building these and a good number are absolute deathtraps that the stunt people didn't feel safe in. (They were used for non-action shots.)
- h2odragon 5y agoI've actually put a flamethrower on a car, long ago. Not a very big one; alcohol injected into a bypass exhaust pipe. It was a bitch to get it to wash the road and not set the car on fire; and there was a narrow window of speed where it was effective. too fast and it would self extinguish; even with naptha... faster than that by 3x and naptha would be a fine enough mist for an FAE pop, if we could get it to light. Very, very much "not suitable for street use" :)
- teawrecks 5y agoNot with that attitude!
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- Finnucane 5y agoAnd the NTSB doesn’t look kindly on having your passengers swinging from 40-foot poles, either. Oh, the nanny state!
- dharmab 5y agoWould you mind endorsing me on LinkedIn for "having dudes on bendy poles"? [0] 0: https://youtu.be/7Nj9ZjwOdFQ?t=291 https://youtu.be/7Nj9ZjwOdFQ?t=291
- ChuckMcM 5y agoThere used to be a place just outside of Las Vegas proper called "Buck's war surplus" that the teen version of me would go to and imagine what I would do with all that neat stuff. They got the top turret from a B17 once which I thought would make a nice addition to a large car. Nothing like pointing twin 50's at the traffic jam to encourage it to move along. Alas, I did not have the means to convert such speculation into rolling hardware.
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- hentrep 5y agoI've wondered about the legality of the spikes I see on semi trucks in the US. I can't imagine these spikes veering into the rubber of another vehicle's tires would end well. Though based on some cursory searches, it seems many of these spikes are made of plastic [0] [0] https://bigrigpros.com/why-do-semi-trucks-have-spikes-on-wheels/ https://bigrigpros.com/why-do-semi-trucks-have-spikes-on-whe...
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThose are cosmetic plastic caps. And even if they weren't they wouldn't be much more damaging to anything than normal semi truck lug nuts.
- h2odragon 5y agoThink of those like the rumble strips on the side of the road: they're loud and flashy but wont do real harm, and may give you the fraction of a second warning that enables avoiding more serious contact.
- post_break 5y agoOh to have that chrome V8 interceptor. That's the one to get.
- dylan604 5y agoWhat? No, it has to be the one with the speaker stacks, but it has to come with the guitar too
- wellthisisgreat 5y agoThere is no way the speakers work though? But imagine wiring them up.. Is it even feasible I wonder
- lostgame 5y agoThe speakers did work. So did the guitar.[1] 'MTV: So wait, the whole thing actually worked? Gibson: You bet your sweet... George -- unfortunately -- doesn’t like things that don’t work. I have in the past built him props that I thought were just supposed to be props, and then he goes, "Okay, plug it in now."' George Miller simply assumed it would work; and as a result, the end result was actually a functional guitar and speaker system. [1] https://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-max-fury-road-guitar-player-doof-warrior-colin-gibson/ https://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-max-fury-road-guitar-pl...
- beamatronic 5y agoOf all the effects in that movie, the ONE that I was sure was CGI was the flames coming out of the guitar.
- dylan604 5y agoWhy would you think they couldn't work? My ultimate dream car was to own a real semi-trailer with that would open up like the old Optimus Prime toy so that when unfolded it would reveal a huge sound system ready to go in a matter of minutes.
- SER135 5y agoLOACATION
- atarian 5y agoFull list of vehicles: https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/AuctionLots.aspx?smode=0&aid=25652 https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/AuctionLots.aspx?smode=0&aid...
- Hamuko 5y agoI was searching for the People Eater's Limousine (the Mercedes-Benz W123 limo mounted on a truck frame) but didn't find it. >The vehicle was destroyed in a spectacular stunt and its remains were crushed and scrapped. Damn.
- philipodonnell 5y agoThere is hope! > Two trucks were used for building "The People Eater Limousine". One for closeup shots and the second for stunts and the final explosion scene.
- djmips 5y agoThe Mercedes shells came from a wedding limousine company. :)
- rasz 5y ago800 x 525 pixels and all pictures are from the movie set, no current ones. Good one lloyds. Edit: nope, they have some studio glamour pictures, in 453 x 327 pixels.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoRetro resolution for retro cars. Absolutely appropriate.
- audiometry 5y agoLooks even better on iPhone… wth
- pelagicAustral 5y agoI'd love to go shopping on the War Rig. It reminded me of a long time dream to take someone on a date on a garbage truck.
- TrainedMonkey 5y agoIt would be awesome, but for some weird reason I suspect that most of these, including War Rig, are not street legal.
- cosmodisk 5y agoYou buy the War Rig and then pull over at some random gas station in a middle of nowhere. Pop in,get a few beers and ask for directions and then walk out in slow motion:)
- zardo 5y agoA group of men surround your car eager to tell you stories about the cars it reminds them of.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y agoThere is a well known comic/author who owns a vintage Back to the Future DeLorean in Austin, TX. I’ve seen him park his car at a few places around town and every time he does a group of people swarm the car like this.
- drcongo 5y agoSorry to admit I've been one of those swarmers when I saw that parked downtown.
- cosmodisk 5y agoWe used to have an office in a not so glamorous part of an industrial estate in London. The street is beyond bleak,etc.. One day,to our surprise, we saw Team Galag Batmobile pulling into the road. Needless to say that's the last thing one would expect to see on that road!
- cosmodisk 5y agoAs soon as they start approaching, you demo the flamethrower.
- boringg 5y agoIf they had this auction in the US prices would be significantly higher. Rolling around in a couple of this Rigs would be pretty bad ass.
- paulluuk 5y agoare you seeing any prices? It just says "1 dollar" for each listing on my end.
- andyxor 5y agoperfect for Burning Man, especially the Doof Wagon
- santamex 5y agoWhen you scroll down on the landing page there are two more items. A PlayStation 1 and 2 solar panels. Lloyds auctioning this for real?
- Rebelgecko 5y agoThey're also selling "Blockchain Classic Cars". I was too horrified to figure out what that actually means (like an NFT of a random picture of a mustang?)
- aaron695 5y agoDigital Classic Cars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igxbOb4kAdY&list=PLIqYtLjenzHGYEhZIT1DvtHpMnEh3VtLJ&index=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igxbOb4kAdY&list=PLIqYtLjenz... "The very first buyer of this model will receive 10% of EVERY future sale of this digital NFT classic car on Lloyds NFT Auctions." All I know is it's important to get in on the bottom to make a lot of money. It's a trapezoid model of doing business.
- motohagiography 5y agoMost appropriately timed auction ever. However, could see Cirque du Soleil picking them up if they could get the additional rights with them.
- mclightning 5y agoI have bad news for you. We lost Cirque du Soleil to pandemic, last I heard.
- dmd 5y agoThat does not seem to be true. https://twitter.com/Cirque https://twitter.com/Cirque
- giarc 5y agoThe descriptions are awful, they provide no details on whether the vehicles actually run or can be driven.
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- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoMad Max Fury Road was the best action movie of the last decade. Or two decades.
- gtvwill 5y agoMmm I worked on that film doing heaps of concrete that didn't look like concrete. The w16 land cruiser engine in the gigahorse setups a bit wild. Sacrificial gear link between them to join them. Pretty wild, fairly sure I've got a flaming skull from one of the front of the rigs somewhere. Fun cars, sound wicked when running.
- gtvwill 5y agoHot tip, all those cars were built with profits from happy feet too :) took the o.g builder like a decade to make them all.
- memossy 5y ago"Payment can be accepted in any currency, including cryptocurrencies as we outrun the end of civilisation."
- somedude895 5y agoHow boring that they're selling it as a lot. I would've loved to see what the individual cars would end up going for.
- Borrible 5y agoThere is an annual Mad Max 'Cosplay' Festival in Edwards, California with a Wasteland World Car Show. https://www.wastelandweekend.com/ https://www.wastelandweekend.com/