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Pt.1
First off.. I'm 17 years old, I've been obsessed with this movie since I was about a year old. Ghostbusters II was the first movie I saw in theaters. I was two years old and my mom said I sat there and didn't say a word until the movie was over. I plan to make a movie with my car and everything else. Here's the story of my most righteous vehicle...

It all started probably in middle school. I'm really into making movies and want to do that professionally sooner or later. Me and my friends started throwing the notion of making a feature-length Ghostbusters sort of sequel or whatever, but I abandoned the idea because of the car, the props, the firehouse and the special effects. Duh, right?

Ok, then about tenth grade came. We're known around school for making movies pretty well. These other guys are sort of doing the same thing and following our lead, and they make this Ghostbusters spoof and everybody loves it and it pisses me off. So then I decide I'm making a Ghostbusters movie again, and get all the costumes together. By this time, editing is in our favor and we can now do the streams and everything digitally. We even found a firehouse from 1905 about thirty miles from here that's gonna let us film there eventually. It's some art place now, but that's another story. All we need is the car now, right?

So I show my dad a proton pack I made and tell him we're serious and he needs to find us a car. We look for about two months for a station wagon, or even a new hearse, we're desperate here. My cousin or someone tells us that hearses are being sold nearby, newer ones, and I'm wondering if new hearses have the back doors behind the driver's side. So I typed "Hearse" into eBay motors to find one and see, and there we are, a 1965 Cadillac Ambulance. I sent it to my friend, saying that would be cool. Sort of a "yeah right" thing. I'm about to sign off and he IMs me back with it all in caps saying something like "DUDE IT'S IN GEORGIA" (which is where we live.) So, I called my dad, he called the guy, and we bought the baby and had it in my driveway before the auction ended online. It actually rose to about $1,500 more than we paid for it in the auction, and the guy called wanting it back and we hung up on him.

So now we have a car, which doesn't run, and is the ugliest shade of green you've ever seen. We called it "Don Green" because the half-retarded guy who sold it to us was Don. The car was actually in really good shape, and really only needed a water pump and new brakes to get her back into shape. It has about 64,000 original miles on it. Here's another little funny story.. We took it somewhere to have it worked on because we didn't want to do it, but the guy was lazy and didn't do the job, so we went to get it back from him. As we were putting it into the roll-back, the cable snapped and the car went flying backwards and rammed a van. It like.. ripped the fiberglass fender off the backside of the van and didn't even put a scratch hardly on the damn ambulance. Truly amazing.

So we painted the car ourselves. My dad knows a little thing or two about cars and we kind of just learned as we went. It took about a year to finally get the car painted. The decals were made by the printer who makes the decals for our local police department's cars. I don't know if you guys noticed or not, but the car's really registered as "ECTO 1A". Ecto 1 was already taken in this state. Bummer, huh?

The lights were the first thing I was looking for after we bought the car. I still don't really have the right little round lights. They're suppoed to be "Unity" or something, but I couldnt find any for sale anywhere. I ended up putting KC lights on the car. I still have to tint them blue. The Barlights came off of some used police equipment site, and I bought them for $100 a piece. The sirens were bought off eBay. The one with the red light works. It's pretty nifty.

We made the actual roof rack ourselves as well as the ladder that goes down the side. My dad has a plasma cutter. The thing's made out of steel, and I guess the '59 had thicker tops because the top caved in nearly when we put the rack on. We had to put a brace in the middle to brace the top of the car. If you look close on the actual ECTO-1A, there's a roof brace just like the one we put on our car. We didn't notice it until after we did it.

The yellow tanks are the little ones firemen use. My dad runs a recycling center and someone sold them to him once because they were defective. The bands that hold the tanks and the pipe on the other side were a pain to make. We had to bend them ourselves out of little strips of aluminum.

We also put a ducted fan on top as well as welding the big red and white beacon thing and the red and white gun thing to fit our every needs. The blue hoses are just painted gutter hose. We put a gray power cable behind the ladder just like the one in the movie. That box on top of the pipe was welded and made from scratch. It looks pretty authentic now. Took us a while to find all the little knobs and switches to go onto it.

The whip antennaes and the actual mounts for them match up to the ones in the movie, too. The whips'll run you up to about $50 a piece, with an additional $60 for each mount. I might add that the damn things are already rusty. We got them at radio shack. Go figure.

The satellite would seem like it would have been the hardest part to find. We made it from pretty much scratch and a little plastic dome. We put yellow and black checker decals on it, and a servo arm behind it so it actually rotates when you hook a battery up to it. Pretty cool.

We bought a set of wide white walled tires from Coker Classic, too.

I think that's about all we did to the car. We still need to tint the windows, as well as slap some stickers and labels on the tanks and stuff. I want to eventually wire up a set of grill strobes, too, but I couldn't find any online to buy anywhere.

We take the car out every once in a while. We put it in the local Christmas parade here and won $75. We've got the suits and stuff to go along with the car, so everyone goes nuts when they see us. The catch is, though, we can really only go about 40 MPH tops, because of the satellite dish thing on top of the car. I've only had one bad runoff with this: Someone was blowing the horn for three miles the other day and then passed us, blowing the horn and flipping us off. The speed limit there was 40. People are unbelievable. Most people will follow us with camera phones until we stop somewhere. We were getting gas the other day and this little kid, about six or seven (it amazes me that kids that age know what the Ghostbusters are) asks if we're really the Ghostbusters. It was... touching.

Pt.2

It all started probably in middle school. I'm really into making movies and want to do that professionally sooner or later. Me and my friends started throwing the notion of making a feature-length Ghostbusters sort of sequel or whatever, but I abandoned the idea because of the car, the props, the firehouse and the special effects. Duh, right?

Ok, then about tenth grade came. We're known around school for making movies pretty well. These other guys are sort of doing the same thing and following our lead, and they make this Ghostbusters spoof and everybody loves it and it pisses me off. So then I decide I'm making a Ghostbusters movie again, and get all the costumes together. By this time, editing is in our favor and we can now do the streams and everything digitally. We even found a firehouse from 1905 about thirty miles from here that's gonna let us film there eventually. It's some art place now, but that's another story. All we need is the car now, right?

So I show my dad a proton pack I made and tell him we're serious and he needs to find us a car. We look for about two months for a station wagon, or even a new hearse, we're desperate here. My cousin or someone tells us that hearses are being sold nearby, newer ones, and I'm wondering if new hearses have the back doors behind the driver's side. So I typed "Hearse" into eBay motors to find one and see, and there we are, a 1965 Cadillac Ambulance. I sent it to my friend, saying that would be cool. Sort of a "yeah right" thing. I'm about to sign off and he IMs me back with it all in caps saying something like "DUDE IT'S IN GEORGIA" (which is where we live.) So, I called my dad, he called the guy, and we bought the baby and had it in my driveway before the auction ended online. It actually rose to about $1,500 more than we paid for it in the auction, and the guy called wanting it back and we hung up on him.

So now we have a car, which doesn't run, and is the ugliest shade of green you've ever seen. We called it "Don Green" because the half-retarded guy who sold it to us was Don. The car was actually in really good shape, and really only needed a water pump and new brakes to get her back into shape. It has about 64,000 original miles on it. Here's another little funny story.. We took it somewhere to have it worked on because we didn't want to do it, but the guy was lazy and didn't do the job, so we went to get it back from him. As we were putting it into the roll-back, the cable snapped and the car went flying backwards and rammed a van. It like.. ripped the fiberglass fender off the backside of the van and didn't even put a scratch hardly on the damn ambulance. Truly amazing.

So we painted the car ourselves. My dad knows a little thing or two about cars and we kind of just learned as we went. It took about a year to finally get the car painted. The decals were made by the printer who makes the decals for our local police department's cars. I don't know if you guys noticed or not, but the car's really registered as "ECTO 1A". Ecto 1 was already taken in this state. Bummer, huh?

The lights were the first thing I was looking for after we bought the car. I still don't really have the right little round lights. They're suppoed to be "Unity" or something, but I couldnt find any for sale anywhere. I ended up putting KC lights on the car. I still have to tint them blue. The Barlights came off of some used police equipment site, and I bought them for $100 a piece. The sirens were bought off eBay. The one with the red light works. It's pretty nifty.

We made the actual roof rack ourselves as well as the ladder that goes down the side. My dad has a plasma cutter. The thing's made out of steel, and I guess the '59 had thicker tops because the top caved in nearly when we put the rack on. We had to put a brace in the middle to brace the top of the car. If you look close on the actual ECTO-1A, there's a roof brace just like the one we put on our car. We didn't notice it until after we did it.

The yellow tanks are the little ones firemen use. My dad runs a recycling center and someone sold them to him once because they were defective. The bands that hold the tanks and the pipe on the other side were a pain to make. We had to bend them ourselves out of little strips of aluminum.

We also put a ducted fan on top as well as welding the big red and white beacon thing and the red and white gun thing to fit our every needs. The blue hoses are just painted gutter hose. We put a gray power cable behind the ladder just like the one in the movie. That box on top of the pipe was welded and made from scratch. It looks pretty authentic now. Took us a while to find all the little knobs and switches to go onto it.

The whip antennaes and the actual mounts for them match up to the ones in the movie, too. The whips'll run you up to about $50 a piece, with an additional $60 for each mount. I might add that the damn things are already rusty. We got them at radio shack. Go figure.

The satellite would seem like it would have been the hardest part to find. We made it from pretty much scratch and a little plastic dome. We put yellow and black checker decals on it, and a servo arm behind it so it actually rotates when you hook a battery up to it. Pretty cool.

We bought a set of wide white walled tires from Coker Classic, too.

I think that's about all we did to the car. We still need to tint the windows, as well as slap some stickers and labels on the tanks and stuff. I want to eventually wire up a set of grill strobes, too, but I couldn't find any online to buy anywhere.

We take the car out every once in a while. We put it in the local Christmas parade here and won $75. We've got the suits and stuff to go along with the car, so everyone goes nuts when they see us. The catch is, though, we can really only go about 40 MPH tops, because of the satellite dish thing on top of the car. I've only had one bad runoff with this: Someone was blowing the horn for three miles the other day and then passed us, blowing the horn and flipping us off. The speed limit there was 40. People are unbelievable. Most people will follow us with camera phones until we stop somewhere. We were getting gas the other day and this little kid, about six or seven (it amazes me that kids that age know what the Ghostbusters are) asks if we're really the Ghostbusters. It was... touching.
 

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