Peter: You can't park that here!
Ray Wert: Everybody can relax, I found the car! Needs some suspension work; and shocks, and brakes, brake pads, lining, steering box, transmission, rear end …
Peter: How much?
Ray Wert: Only forty-eight hundred. And maybe new rings, also mufflers, a little wiring...

I'll volunteer to be the Keymaster is Megan Fox is the gatekeeper. Just throwing that out there!

ZOOOOOOOOL

Does anyone remember what Ray spent on this?

nevermind....Chairman

I'm just glad they're not making a Ghostbusters 3 film, an idea that was tossed around as recently as a year ago. With all the product placements and studio-corporate marketing secret handshakes going on, I would hate to see the Ghostbusters rolling around in a Taurus X.

Oh, and also...

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IF Megan fox is the gatekeeper......sorry, thoughts of her make my hands shake (And my desk lift a little)

I was about three-and-a-half years old when my great-grandmother died. So besides my obvious dismay at having lost a loved one, I was squirming and misbehaving during the funeral because, well, that's what I did all the time at that age, and it was hot in that church.
After the funeral, the whole family was silent as the casket was being brought out to the hearse. Then I started jumping up and down excitedly. "Mom! Mom!" I squealed excitedly. "It's a GHOSTBUSTERS CAR!!!"

I suppose I knew it was supposed to be a solemn occasion, but the sight of a '59 Cadillac hearse was something I had to point out to anyone who would listen. Luckily, I was still young enough that pointing it out was cute rather than just disrespectful, and my family thought it was exactly the sort of thing Great-Grandma would have enjoyed. So whenever I see a '59 Caddy hearse or ambulance, I think of my great-grandmother. And I know she'd be amused by that.

Dr. Peter Venkman: "We came, we saw, we kicked its ass."

Are you a god?

So are technically hearses and ambulance conversions of 2/4 sedans wagons?

And no garage or apparatus bay is complete without one of these:

Can anyone honestly say that there's another car out there that looks more badass than a '59 Cadillac?

Haha, those were the golden days of Hollywood! If you wanted to make a slow car fast, you just under-crank the camera a little. That would look so bogus today!

Not that I want to split hairs here, but the ad doesnt say it is the orginal car from the movie, but it is part of the George Barris collection.

Here in Fort Collins there's this guy ... almost as good as the original!

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@htrodblder: Just recently I found an '88 Taurus that was used in Robobop 3 for sale for about $20,000.

I believe it was linked around here at some point.

Anyway, that was a Barris car too.

@bluecoupe: You know, there's a great idea in there--dressing up your car for Halloween. I'm not talking about the pumpkin in the back window--more like the Tiki race car in the last Lemons with the grass hula skirt--in fact Lemons is a kind of Halloween dressup for cars.

@bluecoupe: Dude, I love my Alma Mater... Such brilliant nerdy people all living together.

A hospital near my parents' place still has one of these ambulances in their fleet, they let the staff take it out to local car shows and charity events. I've got pictures of it around in storage somewhere (DOTS contribution?).

Remember when $4800 was a lot of money for a '59 Cadillac hearse?

The Barris car that is for sale on Hemmings is a repro, it is not the one from the original movie. The side and rear windows are different. I think the original was a Miller Meteor, and the Hemmings listing says theirs is a Professional Society conversion. I think the original was heavily modified for the second movie. I built a model of Ecto 1 about 10 years ago, in 1/25 scale. At the time the only model available was an AMT kit of the car from the second movie (Ecto-1A), so it had to be "backdated" to the original. A few years ago Polar Lights came out with a new kit of the original Ecto-1.

Having said all of that, I want the Hemmings car anyway. Who will go in with me? SUPER PARTY RENTAL POTENTIAL!!!!

@dylanseals: The CGI they would inevitably use today would be far worse.

@Euromobile: Only a 59 Buick comes close.

Sigh! More childhood memories. I saw this on a hot June day when I was 14 years old.

The line "It's true, this man has no dick" got a big laugh from me and the friend I went with.

Ghostride the whip, complete with Ecto-1 appearance:

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There was a point in my childhood where I was literally watching this day after day. Man, did I love this movie!

@Dr.Danger: Yes. If someone asks you if you're a god, say yes.

I suppose it's kinda weird that the EPA dick was more concerned with the ghost storage than ECTO-1, which undoubtedly outpolluted Cadillac's entire 2008 lineup.

this was the first car I ever drew (tear).

@Euromobile: '57 thu '59 Plymouth Fury.

Sorry, "Christine" tops "Ecto-1" for bad-assedness.

when the second movie came out there was a contest to win an Ecto-1 replica and i BEGGED my father to enter it. i figured I could keep it in the backyard until I turned 17 :)

@mechimike: I don't know, the Fury is a pretty badass car too, but it's a tough one to call.

I'm with mechmike, the 2-door Fury whomps every other late-50's car for badassedness, though the 300D is up there, too.

That said, Cadillacs of the era and anything other than the Chrysler Imperial don't compete, head-to-head. Plymouth vs. Caddy, not a fair match.

Were I to win a lottery, there'd be, at minimum, a '58 Sport Fury, a '59 Coupe deVille convertible, a '55 Caddy convertible, a 300D, and probably a few other late-50's machines in the daily driving stable. All of them large, two-door machines capable of seating 8 in two rows of seats.