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The ECTO-1 used 49″ Code 3 Force 4 XL Lightbars front and rear with blue domes and 11″ chrome center speaker housings. Both have a combined total of 18-louvers.įinding steel louvered vents should not be to difficult. This vent configuration has also been added to the passenger side of the hood.Īgain, (2) metal vents with (9) louvers placed end to end were rivetted to the hood. It’s actually (2) metal vents with 9-louvers each placed end to end (for a total of 18) and rivetted to the door. That was not an original part of the car and was added. You’ll see that there’s a metal louvered vent on the right side of the rear door. It actually goes behind the chrome trim around the gas filler neck. The red was also on the backside of the fin and followed the fender down the rear of the vehicle. (Click to enlarge) PAINT & BODY MODIFICATIONS:Īs mentioned above, the whole car was painted white, and the area above the side trim was painted red. Here is one of Stephen Dane’s design drawings of ECTO-1 from Septem(you can click to enlarge it): Stephen Dane also shopped for parts at the Apex Electronics/Apex Surplus Corporation in Los Angeles, California.

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ECTO-1 if full of electronic aviation components. Accoring to Stephen Dane “When I was working on Blade Runner, I went out to the Tucson airplane wrecking area and came back with two forty-foot flatbeds full of aircraft junk, and that sensibility showed up in Ghostbusters.” True indeed. He definitely had an assortment of things to sort through.

Stephen said that he got things off the shelf that looked good at the moment, and that he made a career out of “visual bull”. He only had two weeks to come up with the Ectomobile and all the other props for the movie. Stephen Dane, credited as a ‘Hardware Consultant’, designed and oversaw the development of the original ECTO-1. (The picture above shows how the Ectomobile ECTO-1 looked when first purchased)īefore I get to far, I want to recognize the designer and creator of ECTO-1. STEPHEN DANE – DESIGNED AND OVERSAW DEVELOPMENT OF ECTO-1 Notice how the red on the side of ECTO-1 is encased in chrome trim? The louvers on the back door are not original. The 1959 Cadillac Eureka ambulance / hearse had a rear side window that sloped down, and a rear corner window that sloped up. Notice how the window frame at the back corner on this 1959 Cadillac Superior ambulance / hearse angles (yellow arrow).īoth the 1959 Cadillac S&S (Hess & Eisenhardt) and 1959 Cadillac Barnett coaches do not have rear corner windows. Look at how the window trim is straight around the side and rear corner of the body. So just because it’s a 1959 Cadillac doesn’t mean it’s the right car.

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There were several companies that built ambulances and hearses on Cadillac’s Professional Chassis. There is said to only have been 400 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor’s built. (The real Ghostbusters 1959 Cadillac Miller Meteor Futura Ectomobile)

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The Futura models have wrap around windows in the rear. The cars used in the Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) is a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Futura Duplex (hearse / ambulance combination). 1959 CADILLAC MILLER-METEOR FUTURA DUPLEX: Not only is it cool, but it’s clearly not an attempt to recreate the original Ghostbusters car, so there’s no reason for die hard fans to be critical of the details. In this case, the person that built the vehicle decided to build the vehicle they felt the Ghostbusters would drive today. More specifically, ECTO-1A had a satellite dish and black and yellow stripes on the side. This car appears to be a mix of ECTO-1 from Ghostbusters and ECTO-1A from Ghostbusters II. That said, some of the coolest Ectomobiles have been built out of modern vehicles. If you’re going to do it, then go all in all the way and try to make it look like a legitimate Ghostbusters vehicle. Personally I go in to things with a ride or die attitude. I get that there’s simply the fun in making your own version of the Ectomobile. I find that people can be pretty critical if you get any of the details wrong. Some of the parts are hard to find, and some people recreate them on their own.

Since Ghostbusters first showed up on film over 35 years ago, people have been attempting to recreate the ECTO-1 Ectomobile.