Living Mad Max

By Miss Cellania in Film, Travel on Sep 14, 2009 at 10:23 am

Adrian Bennett has been obsessed with the Mad Max movies since 1982 when he was a teenager in England. In 2001 he built his own Interceptor, the car Mel Gibson drove in the film. Three years ago, he moved his family from Yorkshire to Australia. Now he has settled in the remote Outback town of Silverton, where the first two movies were made. Silverton has a population of 51 (counting the five Bennetts), but draws 140,000 tourists a year and is also used often as a set for the film industry. Bennett plans to open a Mad Max museum in his new hometown. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend

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Tags: Australia, Interceptor, Mad Max

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Tim Giachetti
Sep 14th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Nice! thnx Miss C.
Kalel
Sep 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Nice car.

A fella… a QUICK fella…. might have a weapon under there.
Christophe
Sep 14th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
does he plan to run an electricity plant from pig poop too?
brett maxwell
Sep 14th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
awesome… but kinda sad. i hope his family doesn’t hate him for being so obsessed and moving them half-way around the world.
Johnny Cat
Sep 14th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Touch those tanks, and BOOM.
Bad Bubby
Sep 15th, 2009 at 1:09 am
That scag and his floozie, they’re gonna die!
Larfin Jackarse
Sep 15th, 2009 at 3:37 am
The last of the V8 Interceptors… a piece of history!
FishBottleT
Sep 16th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Very nice looking car
Toecutter
Sep 29th, 2010 at 5:57 am
Actually the first movie “Mad Max” (retitled “The Road Warrior” for the US market) was filmed almost entirely in Victoria, about a thousand kilometers from Silverton.
Many of the locations are well known to me, some are just down the road.
Miss Cellania
Sep 29th, 2010 at 6:03 am
I can’t argue with you about shooting locations, but it was the second movie that was called The Road Warrior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Warrior
Toecutter
Sep 29th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
You are correct-my mistake on which film was renamed. The Country town in the film is Clunes, the MFP garage is Melbourne University’s underground carpark, MFP headquarters is now Scienceworks museum, The Roadhouse is still by the side of the road near Wallan etc etc

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