Driving the Ultimate Movie car - Mad Max 'Last of the V8 Interceptors'

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  @stevenkelby2169 · 2 years ago · pinned

  Jonny, as an Aussie who grew up in the 80s this one brought a tear to the eye.<br><br>Keep up the good work ya flute 🍻

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  @HereIsMyOffer · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pXGoa2sJOI&amp;t=490">8:10</a> Technically you can stop and start a belt driven blower! The Toyota 4A-GZE &amp; 1GZ-GTE (edit: 1G-GZE) motor used an electro-magnetic clutch similar to an &nbsp;air conditioning compressor to disengage the supercharger at idle to keep fuel consumption down. Presumably, one could make that operation switchable via gear stick mounted button

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  @goatfiddler8384 · 2 years ago

  As a young fella, I delivered the local paper in an industrial area of Melbourne called West Heidelberg. One of the places was a machine shop and one evening the bloke who owned it was there and we had a bit of a chat about the lathes, mills etc. The conversation came round to how he built the supercharger for the Mad Max car. It &nbsp;was based on a supercharger he had fished out of a bin at the Calder Park drags after it had cracked its compressor thingy. He said he welded up the crack, just so it couldn&apos;t be seen, not a &quot;repair weld&quot;, and worked out some sort of pulley setup to run it off the back of the engine. I was 16 at the time and VERY impressed.

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  @gregandrews9151 · 2 years ago

  I just recently purchased a xb falcon in the USA that I found sitting in a barn for 10 years. Extremely rare find in the US.

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  @InitialP_Photography · 2 years ago

  If you grew up in the 80&apos;s/90&apos;s, this car is probably the reason why you became a car addict.

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  @moshly64 · 2 years ago

  The movie that taught me to never get away from bad dudes by running down the center of the road.

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  @lptomtom · 2 years ago

  My favourite movie car of all time featured on my favourite car channel on Youtube? Oh, what a day! What a lovely day!

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  @quantumphaser · 2 years ago

  That is the most baddass car of my GenX childhood.<br><br>Well done, mate.

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  @mick2231 · 2 years ago

  Just wanted to say as a 19 year old who loves cars, I have definitely seen Mad Max (on multiple occasions), and have to say its one of the best car/motorcycle films ever made, and definitely influenced my love of cars. Better than any of the modern Fast and furious crap they come up with. Real people doing actual crazy shit with vehicles for our entertainment will always be better than CGI. Thanks for the video

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  @troycassidy6177 · 2 years ago

  Hats off to the stunt drivers in the original Mad Max movies. Balls of steel

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  @FunkStallion · 2 years ago

  I love how you recreated the bonnet camera view from the film, pointing past the blower to the driver. That thing is glorious

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  @RustyAmericana.Jayhall · 2 years ago (edited)

  For a guy that doesn&apos;t get jealous I&apos;m insanely Jealous right now, I&apos;d adore that car, awesome job Mark.

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