Toecutter vs Kenworth - Where is the truck.

Hi,

I saw the original Mad Max on the box last night and towards the end the Toecutter rides his bike into a Kenworth. A little bit of searching and I found this page, madmax.fandom.com/wiki/Kenworth_K-124 , which gives some details of the truck but it has left me wondering if the anyone knows of the ex-police officer and what might have happened to the truck.

I also went for a bit of random searching through Overlands old photo thread to see if he might have snapped a picture of the truck back in it day but didn't find anythng on the pages I looked at.

Terry

I heard all the vehicles in the movie were crushed as wherever the movie was made had huge import taxes if they sold them and they weren't worth bringing back to Oz.

So crush them.

Besides it was only a Kenworth not anything valuable or useful.

Hi,

The Original Mad Max was made around Melbourne and according to the article in the link I found it was a working truck they borrowed for the day.

Mad Max 4, Fury Road was the only one made outside of Australia, South Africa I think. Mad Max two was around Broken Hill(Silverton and Menindee) and Mad Max 3 was Cober Pedy and the Breakaways.

Terry

One of the vehicles from the movie ended being stored an a family members farm out near Wallacia, the movie people also hired the big winnebago off them for the term of the movie making. I have no idea what the vehicle was or even if it is still there but yep Mad Max was shot here in Oz.

Terry, I had a scroll through the pages- p8 there is one of MT's trucks taken at Border Village in74 or 75, another below that photo is of his 12v71 taken in 74, another on p32 and another on p40 taken outside the Truro Hotel in 72, maybe 73. That would be the total of MT's cabovers I took in my youth.

Peter,

I reckon the MT truck you snapped on page 32 is the same truck as used in Mad Max. Comparing the pictures it has the same configuration of lights on the bar, mudflaps, roof accessories, paint colour and the messed up looking paint across the bottom of the bull bar and the rego plate looks like it has the same numbers.

Terry



https://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/attachment/13937




, www.hcvc.com.au/forum/OldTruck/16820-ove...tos?start=310#202953 ,

Mick Travlos fleet no. 18 was the truck in the movie

Hi,

the Fleet number 18 is mentioned in the original link to the Mad Max fan site.

This picture from the same site shows the truck after it was repainted but it also lost the roof spoiler and the inlet and exhaust pipes got changed as well.



Terry

A few of those Travlos trucks got turfed over the years... I have a rather large file on the fleet... They had a lot of changes after being turfed

If you look at the truck just as it’s about to crash it’s a different truck, and the truck is as a cardboard cutout , play it ten times or more and you can see it....the other scenes obviously are real , I wonder what was behind it...