Did you ever see the cult movie classic, Mad Max? Ah, it’s great. In a post-apocalyptic future, good guys and bad roam the roads in lightning-fast, cobbled-together junkyard contraptions that would make Rube Goldberg swoon with delight. Fantastic science fiction, you say? I thought so too, until I recently test drove what I’m sure was the automotive inspiration for the whole movie.
The car was the handiwork of – oddly enough – a rebel by the name of Max – Max Balchowsky. The racecars that he created in the late ’50s and early ’60s were such a conglomeration of differing bits and pieces that the cars were nicknamed “Ol’ Yeller” after – oddly enough – a movie about a mongrel junkyard dog who in the end makes good.
