This design only made it to 400 production cars, making the base car a rare number indeed. What is the history of the original Ecto-1? original Ecto-1 | GhostbustersĪccording to MotorTrend, the original Ecto-1 was converted by Miller-Meteor at the company’s Piqua, Ohio, plant that used the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado tail fins and other style cues to make this ambulance hearse that would prove to be eternally linked to Ghostbusters. Aside from the powerful fun of an LS swap, maybe Reitman just didn’t want his Ecto-1 to break down. It eventually broke down on the Brooklyn Bridge for so long it got a ticket. In Ghostbusters II, Ecto-1 was in pretty rough shape and regularly sputtered and broke down.
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As he says in the video, after a full day of ripping donuts in the barley field with the Ecto-1, they could smell burning barley from the Ecto-1’s tomfoolery.Īside from practical effects, there was also plain practicality that needed to be considered in the Ecto-1 engine swap. In this case, Reitman dropped a crate LS engine into the now, very-rippable ghost hunting rig.
The way the production went about this was the same any hot-rod builder would do rebuild the old Cadillac from the ground up and give it an LS engine. Part of this meant getting the Ecto-1 running hot enough to fully tear ass in a wheat field (it was actually barley). Reitman wanted to mirror the original film by using as many practical effects as possible. The Ecto-1 needed a LS motor to better save the world Original Ecto-1 | Ghostbustersįor whatever reason, one of Reitman’s earliest ideas for the film was a sequence of the Ecto-1 drifting through a wheat field.
Understanding Reitman’s love for the Ghost-busting gear makes the trailer for this film make perfect sense when he set out to do justice to the original props that definitely included the iconic Ecto-1. He goes on to say, “ A lot of this film for me was the thrill of what it would be like to discover all these things in your home.” It was the packs, it was the traps, and it was the car,” Reitman gushed over his love for the films. “My connection with Ghostbusters always had to do with this ephemera. In the YouTube video here, Jason Reitman, Ghostbusters: Afterlife Director and Co-Writer, puts words to the feeling that many fans share about what made the original Ghostbusters film such an iconic piece of cinema.
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