[HN Gopher] Mad Max Fury Road vehicle auction
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Mad Max Fury Road vehicle auction
Author : mzs
Score : 97 points
Date : 2021-09-09 17:53 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.lloydsonline.com.au)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.lloydsonline.com.au)
| SER135 wrote:
| LOACATION
| cosmodisk wrote:
| 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:)
| zardo wrote:
| A group of men surround your car eager to tell you stories
| about the cars it reminds them of.
| SOLAR_FIELDS wrote:
| 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.
| giarc wrote:
| The descriptions are awful, they provide no details on whether
| the vehicles actually run or can be driven.
| [deleted]
| boringg wrote:
| If 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 wrote:
| are you seeing any prices? It just says "1 dollar" for each
| listing on my end.
| inetsee wrote:
| That's just the opening bid. I imagine the sky's the limit
| for people with lots of money and a burning desire to own
| some one-of-a-kind cars.
| h2odragon wrote:
| 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.
| dharmab wrote:
| 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.)
| [deleted]
| h2odragon wrote:
| 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.
|
| Very, very much "not suitable for street use" :)
| teawrecks wrote:
| Not with that attitude!
| ChuckMcM wrote:
| 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.
| [deleted]
| hentrep wrote:
| 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]
|
| [0] https://bigrigpros.com/why-do-semi-trucks-have-spikes-on-
| whe...
| throwaway0a5e wrote:
| Those 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 wrote:
| 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.
| Finnucane wrote:
| And the NTSB doesn't look kindly on having your passengers
| swinging from 40-foot poles, either. Oh, the nanny state!
| dharmab wrote:
| Would you mind endorsing me on LinkedIn for "having dudes on
| bendy poles"? [0]
|
| 0: https://youtu.be/7Nj9ZjwOdFQ?t=291
| motohagiography wrote:
| Most appropriately timed auction ever.
|
| However, could see Cirque du Soleil picking them up if they could
| get the additional rights with them.
| santamex wrote:
| When 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 wrote:
| 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?)
| atarian wrote:
| Full list of vehicles:
| https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/AuctionLots.aspx?smode=0&aid...
| Hamuko wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| There 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.
| rasz wrote:
| 800 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 wrote:
| Retro resolution for retro cars. Absolutely appropriate.
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| Mad Max Fury Road was the best action movie of the last decade.
| Or two decades.
| andyxor wrote:
| perfect for Burning Man, especially the Doof Wagon
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| I'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 wrote:
| It would be awesome, but for some weird reason I suspect that
| most of these, including War Rig, are not street legal.
| post_break wrote:
| Oh to have that chrome V8 interceptor. That's the one to get.
| wellthisisgreat wrote:
| all shiny and chrome
| Hamuko wrote:
| The one to get? It only has a _one_ V8 engine. You know what 's
| better than one V8 engine? Two V8 engines.
|
| The Gigahorse, that's the one to get.
| dylan604 wrote:
| What? No, it has to be the one with the speaker stacks, but it
| has to come with the guitar too
| wellthisisgreat wrote:
| There is no way the speakers work though? But imagine wiring
| them up.. Is it even feasible I wonder
| dylan604 wrote:
| 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.
| wellthisisgreat wrote:
| idk I thought there wouldn't be enough power to drive
| them long enough, but apparently...
| lostgame wrote:
| The 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-pl...
| beamatronic wrote:
| Of all the effects in that movie, the ONE that I was
| _sure_ was CGI was the flames coming out of the guitar.
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