IT JUST HAPPENED
EARLY IN MAD MAX, WHEN THE TITULAR ANTI- hero is introduced to the supercharged Interceptor, he asks, “How the hell did you get all this together?”
“It just happened… A piece from here and piece from there,” was the reply from the mad-scientist mechanic Barry; and the wasteland road trash would soon be sorry he put all those pieces together. Very sorry.
“It just happened,” is also how Tom Brown describes the build of his own bad, black and blown Ford — a ’69 Mustang Mach 1 that he calls Instigator, which sort of sounds like Interceptor. “The car and parts just came together.”
“We were sitting at the Woodward Dream Cruise a couple of years ago and I had my ’61 Cadillac convertible,” Tom told us. “My friend Brian Thomson said he had an NOS Northstar supercharged engine sitting in the crate, suggesting
