Story
In the movies Pursuit Specials are undercover police cruisers, which also serve as interceptors. At the opening of the first film in the series, the only Pursuit Special is a 1972 Holden Monaro, which is rusty and used. It is stolen by the Nightrider, a member of a motorcycle gang called the Zed Runners (also known as the Acolytes), and is wrecked while escaping police custody.
Pursuit Special, when the term is used, generally refers to Max's more famous V8 Interceptor Pursuit Special, Ford Falcon (XB) GT 351 coupe,[14] commissioned at great expense by Police Commissioner Labatouche and the Main Force Patrol's commander, Fifi Macaffee. Assembled by the MFP's mechanic, Barry, it features port exhaust pipes and a Weiand "blower" supercharger (nonfunctional film prop). When Max's family is murdered by the gang, he steals the Pursuit Special from the MFP garage and goes on a vengeful rampage.
In Mad Max 2, set roughly five years after the events of the previous film, the Pursuit Special has suffered from the effects of the desert: it loses the front end early in the first chase sequence of the film (as Max forcefully rear-ends a raider vehicle), the car is rusty, and the tyres appear to be in a poor state. The car itself has been modified, presumably by Max: the rear window and the boot lid have been removed to make room for two huge fuel tanks. (With a capacity of over 150 L of petrol, these would have significantly improved the vehicle's range.) The car only appears at the beginning of the film, where Max escapes a group of raiders, then rescues a mortally wounded member of an oil rig settlement; and then again later, when it is destroyed during Max's failed attempt to escape the settlement.
The Pursuit Special returns in Mad Max: Fury Road. The film never explains its reappearance; however, the Fury Road comic series, set just before the film, includes a story arc where Max gathers parts to rebuild the vehicle before the events of Fury Road.[15] The car is shown very briefly in the film, having been driven by Max before it is destroyed by Immortan Joe's men. It is then repaired by Joe's War Boys, taken back to bare metal, giving it a silver appearance.[16][17][18] It is then redubbed the "Razor Cola" and used as one of their vehicles. It is destroyed by being crushed between two larger trucks.
Mad Max (2015 video game)
In the 2015 video game, Immortan Joe's son, Scabrous Scrotus, is a warlord of Gastown (the settlement referred to in Fury Road). His men steal the Pursuit Special (referred to as the "Black-on-Black" in the game by Chumbucket) from Max at the start of the game and dismantle it. Max spends time with Chumbucket, an expert mechanic, building a replacement throughout the game known as "the Magnum Opus", so he may cross the Plains of Silence, a barren stretch of salt flats that Max believes will relieve him of his nightmarish memories. In the final battle of the game, the Opus, now on par with the Interceptor, is destroyed along with both Scrotus' Land Mover, and the designer/caretaker of the Opus, Chumbucket. Max thinks he is now without a car, only to have Scrotus emerge with Max's Interceptor. After dispatching the warlord, Max reclaims his car, returns the picture of his family to the dashboard, and drives off into the wasteland.
