Sony Pictures rented the black pre-ECTO Cadillac for the movie, but ended up buying the car after filming and had “King of Kustomizers” George Barris transform it into an ECTO to use as a promotional vehicle. In the film, scientist and Ghostbuster Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) pulled up to Ghostbusters headquarters in the Caddy and said the car just needed a little work, including “some suspension work and shocks, brakes, brake pads, lining, steering box, transmission, rear end, new rings, mufflers and a little wiring.” into an end-loader ambulance/hearse combination. The vehicle that would become ECTO is a 1959 Cadillac modified by the Miller-Meteor Co. Thirty years later, ECTO-1 remains in great shape and it is on display through March 14 in the Hollywood Gallery of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Then the 21-foot long, 7,300-pound car launched out of Ghostbusters HQ, whipped around the corner and raced off down the New York City streets to bust ghosts. In a dramatic entrance, the “ECTO-1” license plate flashed across the screen the firehouse doors opened the car’s headlights flickered on through the fog the blue sirens lit up and the Ghostbusters siren began to wail. The Ectomobile, or ECTO-1, in “Ghostbusters” made a phenomenal on-screen debut, nothing short of a super hero suiting up to fight crime. And the vehicle at the center of the action would be immortalized as one of the greatest star cars of all time.
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A movie released in the summer of 1984 would earn a spot in cinema history.
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