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| Vehicles in storage soon after the Sydney Showcase event 2015 |
The remaining vehicles were destroyed by crushing in Cape Town to avoid incurring a government import / export tax
When filming was about to take place in 2003 cars were shipped to Namibia but never used , some of those vehicles were sold to members of the public and an accident occurred and a man died.
Filmakers were determined not to let this happen again as the cars were never meant to be " roadworthy " for daily use , so all unusable vehicles were destined for the crusher , despite crew members trying to save a couple
A sad fate for some true works of art.
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| Oh what a day ... |
There was talk of a travelling Mad Max stunt show involving these remaining vehicles but until that happens they are all stored away somewhere in the back blocks of Sydney , Australia.
Surviving cars are in storage in Australia:
*2 x War Rigs
*2 x Gigahorse
*Doof Wagon
*2 x Nuxcar
*Razor Cola
*Max's Interceptor
*Convoy 1 Elvis
*Convoy 2 Jaguar
* Caltrop #3 Cranky Frank
*Polecat 7 Buick
*Polecat 6 Surfari
*Polecat 3 Oldsmobile
*Clawcar 1 Ford F350 and a few bikes
In private hands:
*Buzzard 5 ( America ) http://furyroadvehicles.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/buzzard-5-returns.html
*Polecat 4 ( given to a crew member in Africa after filming along with a Vuvalini bike http://furyroadvehicles.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/polecat-car-4.html
*Also the car carrier with contents returned to Australia the body shell from Buggy 11 Lysdexia was up for sale on Ebay recently
*The Bigfoot vehicle was stripped of its body shell and the chassis returned to being a monster truck again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60q6K1oEeHM
*The black prime mover shown in the early chase scene was sold to a local after filming it remains in South Africa http://furyroadvehicles.blogspot.com/2016/03/ford-louisville.html
Carnet is the importing of vehicles short term into a country without paying tax on them. So all the Fury Road vehicles were on a 12 month carnet in Namibia this is the reason they were all move to Cape Town South Africa. The studio was not interested in paying for all the vehicles to be returned to Australia. If they sold them in South Africa they would have to pay the carnet mostly more than they would make! They were also modified vehicles and not roadworthy! After the death in the dunes around Walvis Bay of a person how bought a vehicle in 2003 the studio wanted none sold all destroyed.
ReplyDeleteCarnet .. that was the word I was trying to remember cheers AR !
DeleteSome of those cars in storage really out to be brought out and displayed for a bit. I can imagine that there are a lot of other automobiles in long term storage that deserve to have their day in the sun again! So many movies and so many classic vehicles can be shown off again!
ReplyDeleteI think a lot more survived that we don’t know about because we can not confirm or have actual evidence of the cars being destroyed , cars like the skyline or the corvette , barracuda , the station wagon and other cars must have been saved due to them being classic cars as well as the performance mods they went under
ReplyDeleteA vehicle or two should be donated to the Mad Max 2 Museum in Silverton NSW.
ReplyDeleteI would pay to see those vehicles for sure!!! they should be in an auto museum for sure.
ReplyDeleteI love all the max movies especially fury road wish I could have ben able to get my hands on one just to have it for display it would be a dream come true but sadly dont think that would happen I am a unknown person in texas but a great mechanic and an ive got a great mind for fabricating things out of metal. Well thank you to all who mad this movie possible and god bless. Jorge Flores out. 😜
ReplyDeleteI want gigahorse
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