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Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe
Movie: Mad Max
Year: 1979
Driver: Mel Gibson / Mad Max Rockatansky
This classic movie hot rod is as Aussie as a Vegemite sandwich, a no-bloody-nonsense vehicle that'd punch KITT square in the windscreen given half a chance. Technically it's a Pursuit Special, a police car normally used for pulling over errant drivers, but post-apocalyptic law enforcement doesn't leave a lot of room for issuing tickets.
Instead, Mad Max just uses it to destroy the hell out of perps. Just check out that front supercharger and side pipes. We're not sure what they do, but they look frackin' cool. Thanks to this fantastic Ford, Byron Kennedy and George Miller's creation launches a thousand teenage car crushes.
1961 Ferrari GT California
Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Year: 1986
Driver: Matthew Broderick / Ferris Bueller
There’s no way we’d want a 1961 Ferrari GT California in real life. Not because it isn’t a beautiful, desirable, wonderful car – not at all. It’s because they’re so rare, so precious, and so highly regarded that one recently was sold for over $10 million, meaning that even the tiniest scratch would probably clock in at the same price as a semi-detached family home in Wigan. In the film itself, of course, the car we see isn’t actually a 1961 Ferrari GT California – it’s a kit car version. Three “replicar” models were used, in fact, and they notoriously refused to work properly during the film’s shooting, resulting in the scene where Ferris leaves the car with the garage attendant being shot over ten times, because the ‘car’ wouldn’t start.
Needless to say, the crew had a huge amount of fun destroying the blasted thing when it did eventually tip over into one Mr. Cameron Frye’s back garden, though that said, it was a one-shot, no-fuck-ups-please affair. If there’s a set visit we wish we could have been on – although it took place before Empire Magazine was ever published – it would have been Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Anyway, continuing our adventure into fantasyland, hypothetically we’d probably kill kittens to even have a drive around the local Tesco’s car park in a Ferrari GT California. The whole affair would end with the classic car crushed under a passing milk float or impaled on a bollard and ourselves mortgaging our first-born to pay off the debt, but still, it would be fun while it lasted.
Mercury Monterey
Movie: Cobra
Year: 1986
Driver: Sylvester Stallone / Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti
Marion Cobretti is the kind of cop who'd drive to work in a tank if he could. He can't – it's illegal in LA – so he settles for the next best thing, a 1950 Mercury, which is by any standards a muscle car for the discerning match-chewing badass. It looks like the kind of vehicle ZZ Top would have driven if they'd gone into crime-fighting, but Stallone's mere presence at the height of his '80s action heyday upholsters his vehicle in OTT awesomeness.
Check the features list: it's got a nitrous-aided Holley carburettor, 400-turbo hydraulic transmission with four-wheel brake and one of those nice cup holder things. This car rocks. Sadly, it rolls too, as witnessed by its explosive collision with a drydocked speedboat.
Movie: Mad Max
Year: 1979
Driver: Mel Gibson / Mad Max Rockatansky
This classic movie hot rod is as Aussie as a Vegemite sandwich, a no-bloody-nonsense vehicle that'd punch KITT square in the windscreen given half a chance. Technically it's a Pursuit Special, a police car normally used for pulling over errant drivers, but post-apocalyptic law enforcement doesn't leave a lot of room for issuing tickets.
Instead, Mad Max just uses it to destroy the hell out of perps. Just check out that front supercharger and side pipes. We're not sure what they do, but they look frackin' cool. Thanks to this fantastic Ford, Byron Kennedy and George Miller's creation launches a thousand teenage car crushes.
1961 Ferrari GT California
Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Year: 1986
Driver: Matthew Broderick / Ferris Bueller
There’s no way we’d want a 1961 Ferrari GT California in real life. Not because it isn’t a beautiful, desirable, wonderful car – not at all. It’s because they’re so rare, so precious, and so highly regarded that one recently was sold for over $10 million, meaning that even the tiniest scratch would probably clock in at the same price as a semi-detached family home in Wigan. In the film itself, of course, the car we see isn’t actually a 1961 Ferrari GT California – it’s a kit car version. Three “replicar” models were used, in fact, and they notoriously refused to work properly during the film’s shooting, resulting in the scene where Ferris leaves the car with the garage attendant being shot over ten times, because the ‘car’ wouldn’t start.
Needless to say, the crew had a huge amount of fun destroying the blasted thing when it did eventually tip over into one Mr. Cameron Frye’s back garden, though that said, it was a one-shot, no-fuck-ups-please affair. If there’s a set visit we wish we could have been on – although it took place before Empire Magazine was ever published – it would have been Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Anyway, continuing our adventure into fantasyland, hypothetically we’d probably kill kittens to even have a drive around the local Tesco’s car park in a Ferrari GT California. The whole affair would end with the classic car crushed under a passing milk float or impaled on a bollard and ourselves mortgaging our first-born to pay off the debt, but still, it would be fun while it lasted.
Mercury Monterey
Movie: Cobra
Year: 1986
Driver: Sylvester Stallone / Lieutenant Marion 'Cobra' Cobretti
Marion Cobretti is the kind of cop who'd drive to work in a tank if he could. He can't – it's illegal in LA – so he settles for the next best thing, a 1950 Mercury, which is by any standards a muscle car for the discerning match-chewing badass. It looks like the kind of vehicle ZZ Top would have driven if they'd gone into crime-fighting, but Stallone's mere presence at the height of his '80s action heyday upholsters his vehicle in OTT awesomeness.
Check the features list: it's got a nitrous-aided Holley carburettor, 400-turbo hydraulic transmission with four-wheel brake and one of those nice cup holder things. This car rocks. Sadly, it rolls too, as witnessed by its explosive collision with a drydocked speedboat.
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