"YOU WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE? YOU TALK TO ME"
So if everything goes to plan this is going to be my last year in the UK for a while and I've been giving some thought to all the stuff that I would like to see before I set off for Amsterdam. It's been difficult to narrow this down. I mean this is England. Not only is it really really old it's just overflowing with culture, historic locations and pieces of iconic imagery. After careful consideration of all the things that England has to offer I have decided that there is one thing that I must see before quitting these shores.
The original 1973 XB GT Ford Falcon Coupe 'Interceptor' from the Mad Max movies.
After a varied history the car is now spending its retirement in Keswick, Cumbria of all places. It's in good company. Housed in the same place is the DeLorean from Back to the Future, Batmobiles from TV and the Tim Burton movies, Herbie, Bond's Aston Martins along with the Lotus Esprit, the van from The A Team, KITT from Knight Rider, Magnum's Ferrari, the Lotus 7 from The Prisoner and a bunch of other TV and Film memorabilia including the original three wheeler from Only Fools and Horses.
All the other stuff is icing on the cake but my real interest is the Interceptor.
I've been OD'ing recently on the Mad Max trilogy (yes even the Thunderdome debacle) and have been digging around into the filming, tracking down supporting actors and preparing myself for the perhaps unnecessary but still eagerly awaited Mad Max IV. It turns out that the original car survived both the first two movies (A replica was built for The Road Warrior and it was that one that was destroyed in the movie) only to be sold for scrap. No one had the heart to actually destroy it and it sat outside an Aussie scrap yard for three years before being rescued and sent off on a promotional tour before being finally brought over here.
Maybe Keswick is where famous cars go to die...
So in the next couple of months I'm planning to take a weekend trip to geek out and basically get over-excited in a celebrity car park. Anyone who wants to tag along drop me a line and we'll get all 'Jeremy Clarkson' together.
Mike is blogging to: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
After a varied history the car is now spending its retirement in Keswick, Cumbria of all places. It's in good company. Housed in the same place is the DeLorean from Back to the Future, Batmobiles from TV and the Tim Burton movies, Herbie, Bond's Aston Martins along with the Lotus Esprit, the van from The A Team, KITT from Knight Rider, Magnum's Ferrari, the Lotus 7 from The Prisoner and a bunch of other TV and Film memorabilia including the original three wheeler from Only Fools and Horses.
All the other stuff is icing on the cake but my real interest is the Interceptor.
I've been OD'ing recently on the Mad Max trilogy (yes even the Thunderdome debacle) and have been digging around into the filming, tracking down supporting actors and preparing myself for the perhaps unnecessary but still eagerly awaited Mad Max IV. It turns out that the original car survived both the first two movies (A replica was built for The Road Warrior and it was that one that was destroyed in the movie) only to be sold for scrap. No one had the heart to actually destroy it and it sat outside an Aussie scrap yard for three years before being rescued and sent off on a promotional tour before being finally brought over here.
Maybe Keswick is where famous cars go to die...
So in the next couple of months I'm planning to take a weekend trip to geek out and basically get over-excited in a celebrity car park. Anyone who wants to tag along drop me a line and we'll get all 'Jeremy Clarkson' together.
Mike is blogging to: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
posted by Sizemore at 2/09/2003 04:26:00 pm
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