Mad Max Fury Road Gigahorse (147) JDC Double Trouble

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On the bench today is a pair of Hot Wheels 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Villes. I need two of them, at least, to go to work on this project. It’s the Gigahorse from the Mad Max Fury Road film. Other donor cars and parts will be used as well.

Thanks to Jay from JDC and also to Rikki Williams, an Instagram friend, for supplying me with the Coupe de Ville castings that I couldn’t find in Switzerland!

The Gigahorse is also my entry to the JDC Double Trouble build, to celebrate Jason and Amanda’s twin girls, arriving this Spring! Congratulations you two. You are both loved and admired in our hobby community and we rejoice with you!

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The Gigahorse is a custom vehicle driven in the film by Immortan Joe. The vehicle is built on a custom chassis, with a body made of two 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Villes sitting on top of each other.

The film's original design called for a turret installed on top of a single Coupe de Ville but, as the production designer Colin Gibson explains, “In a world where nobody had one of anything, to show he’s got power, he’s the man who’s got two of everything,” and so the design was changed.

Peter Pound - concept artist explains the reasoning for having Coupe De Villes as the body of The Gigahorse: “It’s the king’s vehicle so it had to be quite spectacular. That’s why the ’59 Cadillac which I always thought represented authority and status.”

The real fGigahorse is approximately 4 meters high without the flags and weighs in at 10.5 tonnes. It also appears to have bulletproof glass in the movie.

The Gigahorse is powered by two Chevrolet 502 hp big block V8 crate motors and functioning 8/71 superchargers. Both engines are connected through a custom gearbox and originally connected to a Turbo 400 automatic transmission. This transmission had to be rebuilt after each day of filming by the film's main mechanic. Because of this inconvenience, the Turbo 400 was eventually replaced with a fully functional Allison automatic truck transmission, generating approximately 1,200 hp. Originally, the two engines were supposed to be dummy motors made of fiberglass with a single real engine hidden inside, but additional funds were provided, which allowed the Gigahorse to be equipped with an actual working engine setup.

The vehicle sports double 70” tractor tires on the rear. The rims and hubs were custom made. They gave a 16:1 drive ratio for a 95 kph top speed, but according to Gibson the Gigahorse managed speeds up to 125 kph while filming.

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