Lloyds seeking ‘Expressions of Madness’ for Mad Max: Fury Road vehicle collection

A baker’s dozen of vehicles from Mad Max: Fury Road are going under the hammer as a single lot, presenting the opportunity to own a “museum of modern masterpieces”.

“The Doof Wagon” from the George Miller film Mad Max - Fury Road. Picture: Lloyds Auctions

The War Rig, the Doof Wagon and the Gigahorse are among 13 vehicles from George Miller’s modern classic Mad Max: Fury Road, which are going under the hammer this weekend with “astronomical” interest from all over the world.

Lloyds Classic Car Auctions is seeking “expressions of madness” for all 13 vehicles, presenting it as an opportunity to “own an entire museum of modern masterpieces’’.

Lloyds head of classic car auctions Asia-Pacific Max Cheney said they were getting about 100 calls and emails per day about the collection, which was the most spectacular single lot of vehicles he had ever seen.

Mr Cheney said the vehicles, which are all operational, “need to be driven in anger’’.

They will most-likely be sold as a collection with the vendor, who is associated with the film’s production, determined to ensure they stay together as a piece of cinematic history.

Mr Cheney said there had been interest from Las Vegas casinos, a consortium of 13 Aussie blokes who wanted to site the vehicles on a mate’s large property, high net worth individuals, and a group of car museums in the US was teaming up for a bid.

While he wouldn’t put even a ballpark price tag on the full set of vehicles, Mr Cheney said it would “certainly be a world record” and the level of interest was “ten to twenty times” what Lloyds had originally anticipated.

The vehicles include “The War Rig” - a six-wheel-drive prime mover powered by twin V8 engines, which was the centrepiece of the film; The Gigahorse - powered by two, 1959 Cadillac V8s; and The Doof Wagon — a repurposed missile truck decked out with a stack of working amplifiers.

The Razor Cola — a reinterpretation of The Interceptor from the original Mad Max movie — is also included.

Mr Cheney said the vehicles had been in storage since the film wrapped, and while there had been plans to display them, they had not eventuated. The owners now wanted a new custodian to buy them and ensure they were displayed appropriately.

“Elvis” from the Mad Max: Fury Road Collection. Picture: Lloyds Auctions

“The original plan was to put them on display or honour them in some way,’’ Mr Cheney said.

“The interest in this collection has been astronomical from around the world.

“It’s one of those things - there isn’t a benchmark for it.

“When you think about the movie, the cars are vehicles in themselves but they were also the set. It’s basically desert and cars.

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“We’re not divulging a figure but it certainly will break a world record for the price.

“But the current custodians are more interested in what the future custodians will do with the vehicles rather than what they are willing to pay for them, honouring the vehicles, putting them on display.

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“There’s quite a few Burning Man projects that people are wanting to acquire them for, there’s other people with museums, there’s Las Vegas casinos, all sorts of things.’’

Fury Road had a long development history, and was originally meant to start shooting in 2001, but was postponed due to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Miller moved on to other projects including Happy Feet, eventually filming Fury Road in Namibia in 2011, after shooting near Broken Hill was disrupted by unexpected heavy rains causing a wildflower bloom.

A follow-up, Mad Max Furiosa, starring Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy is expected to arrive in theatres in 2024 after a one-year delay was recently announced by Warner Bros.

The expressions of interest process for the Md Max collection ends on Sunday.