You 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:)
There 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.
We 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!
Mmm 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.
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.
Why 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.
I'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.
There 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.
These 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.)
I'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.
I'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]
Think 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.
They'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?)
