Who owns ghostbusters car

The original Ecto-1 was converted by the Miller-Meteor at the company's Piqua, Ohio, plant and featured the large and beautifully styled tail fins of the Cadillac Eldorado.

The converted Caddy is a pretty rare deal, with only around being produced. It also fielded a 6. With how heavy the Caddy is, we're sure more power would have helped. In the first script for Ghostbusters , Ecto-1 was supposed to be a Cadillac ambulance, but it was later changed to the '59 Cadillac Futura Duplex.

It was supposed to be black with purple lights, too, and thank goodness both of those decisions were revised. After decades under a tarp, Ecto-1 is surely going to need some love. The Ferno-Washington gurney held the proton-packs, and a series of avionics gauges were souped-up into ghost detectors and spirit containment traps. Ecto-1 first appeared in the Ghostbusters movie and was modified in every following movie. For the first two Ghostbusters films, Sony used three different Cadillac Miller-Meteor hearses: one that portrayed the wreck that Ray Stantz bought, one that portrayed Ecto-1 in the film, and a third that starred as Ecto-1A in the sequel, the latter two designed by Stephen Dane.

Stantz discovered the monstrous machine shortly after he mortgaged his mother's house to buy the Firehouse. According to movie lore, when the production company started designs for the Ecto-1, they bought two Cadillacs.

The first one became the Ecto-1, of the original Ghostbusters, but the second one was only used as a prop and just made a cameo appearance to show what the ghost-busting car was before Stantz fixed it.

However, during the filming of the second Ghostbusters movie in , the original Ecto-1 died, and the crew swiftly made over the second car which became the Ecto-1A. In a Facebook post Sunday, Aikman declared the vehicle "dead" after a cooling fan went out and the engine overheated. Aikman told the State Journal the vehicle died Saturday after it appeared that day in St. Johns for the Mint Festival's parade and was driven back to Lansing.

The vehicle has , miles on it and had to be towed by Northside Towing, a Lansing-based company. Johns resident that may have a working engine he can use. Lansing resident Ryan Holmes drove the vehicle Saturday to and from the parade in St. Holmes, wearing a Ghostbuster costume, pulled over on I when he noticed the vehicle failing to maintain its speed. Holmes, 35, then noticed the engine's underbody on fire and used a fire extinguisher in the vehicle to put out the blaze.

Before the parade in St. One the more challenging aspects was dealing with the body rot from standing water sitting in the vehicle. A movie released in the summer of would earn a spot in cinema history.

And the vehicle at the center of the action would be immortalized as one of the greatest star cars of all time. Then the foot long, 7,pound car launched out of Ghostbusters HQ, whipped around the corner and raced off down the New York City streets to bust ghosts.