Custom fabrication meets sci-fi in the Landmaster
Posted by www.playtechfabrication.com in Famous Vehicles on 02 3rd, 2012For most off-road custom fabricators, the goal is to make the fastest vehicle possible. When famous vehicle designer Dean Jeffries (known, among other achievements, for painting James Dean’s Porsche 550 Spyder) was assigned to create the vehicle for the 1977 sci-fi film Damnation Alley, he had another goal. The Landmaster, as the vehicle would be called, didn’t necessarily have to outrace other vehiclesit simply had to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland populated by mutated insects and barbarians.
True to form, Jeffries used as many standard truck parts as possible. If you’re going to define it in www.directv.com terms, the process was less SyFy channel and closer to Spike’s Xtreme 4×4. At its core, the Landmaster holds a 427-cubic-inch Ford industrial engine. The vehicle’s unique shape (a polygonal body with a pointed front-end) comes from the two large truck rear bodies that were used to build it. The transmission is an Allison automatic. Read the rest of this entry »
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