Iconic ‘Fury Road’ Cars Up for Auction – You Could Own Furiosa’s War Rig
Many vehicles were harmed in the making of Fury Road. You can now have the chance to own some of the ones that survived.
The Mad Max movies may fall into post apocalyptic sci-fi, action, fantasy – in all of those genres, at their core they’re car movies. Fury Road offers some bonkers chases with a ton of custom vehicles, many of which didn’t make it out of filming in one piece. Colin Gibson and his production crew designed and built 150 vehicles – 29 of those became scrap.
Guy Norris was the supervising stunt coordinator for Fury Road. He started his career as a traveling stunt performer and met George Miller on The Road Warrior in 1980. At 54 he filmed his final stuntie role in the most dangerous stunt in the movie. He drove a ten-ton, sixteen wheeler at 60mph into a wrecked 16-wheeler without slowing down. An impact that could kill a person – especially given that the cab is above the engine. They had to build a special rig that would allow him to keep accelerating after impact. He came out without a scratch.
Norris spoke to Rolling Stone about the massive final chase scene, which took months of planning to keep everyone safe:
“That’s what we call the ‘dancing truck sequence.’ It was all designed to keep Max and Furiosa apart for as long as possible. Every time he came close, how could we interrupt that process and have another set piece? The biggest thing to talk about here is the location. It’s difficult enough to do a chase scene with two or three normal cars on a normal street, but the incredibly flat desert that went for miles allowed us to have a whole armada of over 75 vehicles in one shot. Again, it gave us an amazing opportunity to do something that had never been done before.”
Check out a full behind the scenes from the car and stunt crew. Given the insanity of what they did, there were no fatalities and their injury count was low.
Thirteen of the movie’s famous vehicles are up on the auction block right now – including Furiosa’s War Rig (with the tanker and ball trailer), Max’s Razor Cola Intercessor, and Immorten Joe’s Gigahorse. The full list:
- The War Rig
- The Gigahorse
- The Doof Wagon
via Lloyds Auctions Australia
- Convoy Car : Elvis
- Convoy Car: Flamer
- Razor Cola
via Lloyds Auctions Australia
- Pole Car
- Sabre Tooth
- Nux Car
via Lloyds Auctions Australia
- Fire Car
- Caltrop: El Dorado
- Buggy: Ratrod Chev
- Buick: Heavy Artillery With Hummer Weapon Mount
The offering period is open now till September 26th and Lloyds will arrange global shipping for you if you win. Figuring out how you’d garage something like the Doof Wagon is all on you, though.
