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and Egon's farmhouse, and Nick Pugh; who would sketch out ideas for Ecto-1's new gags. Ecto-1 Jason had a vision for the movie that busting ghosts should no longer be a stationary endeavor, but rather something that could be done on the move. It would be revealed that the Ecto-1 still has a few surprises up its sleeves, included a remote- control ghost trap vehicle ("RTV") and exit-ramp, as well as a combo suicide door/gunner's seat. Following the production's rule book to lean heavily into practical e ects, we set out to not only build two high-performance Ecto-1s, but also integrate these story requirements into the cars as fully practical rigs. The build was awarded to LA-based specialty vehicle fabricator Ghostlight Industries, headed by Cyril O'Neil. Cyril scoured North America for 1959 Cadillac Miller Meteors with limited results, learning that those models had become incredibly scarce over time. We purchased a non-running rusty Cadillac for one of the picture cars and then sourced one of Sony's Ecto-1As from Ghostbusters II to use as our second vehicle. I felt goose bumps seeing both cars unloaded into the picture car shop. After all, Ecto-1 is arguably one of the most iconic movie cars of all time! The Ghostlight team immediately went to work on both cars, completely disassembling them and cataloguing the hundreds of individual parts for restoration. The vehicles would only look like rusty barnfi nds on the outside, but under the hood, they would be bleeding-edge performance machines! Concurrently, the build of the practical suicide doors and gunner's team was supervised by SPFX supervisor Elia Popov, which required a brain- numbing amount of custom engineering and fabrication. After the car was complete, the fi nal e orts would revolve around creating a surface patina that would re ect the fi ctional backstory of the car that it was driven from New York City to Oklahoma A. EARLY ECTO-1 SCISSORING GUNNER'S SEAT SKETCH BY NICK PUGH. B. EACH STAGE OF ECTO- 1'S WEAR WAS ILLUSTRATED BY KIRSTEN FRANSON. C. ECTO-1. PRODUCTION STILL BY KIMBERLY FRENCH. D. ECTO-1. IN EGON'S BARN. PRODUCTION STILL BY KIMBERLY FRENCH. A B C D