If there’s something strange in your Garage, who you gonna call? Well, not the Ghostbusters, because they’re the ones with the oddity.
Ghostbusters fans will most likely remember the iconic Ecto-1 “fast response vehicle”, a 1959 Cadillac Professional Chassis, build by the Miller-Meteor company. But in the new, revamped adaption of the film, the ambulance has been replaced with something else.
With the new movie, the producers decided to improve its structure, so they went with a new variant of the Ecto-1. Albeit the original film was released in 1984, the main protagonists conveyed their ghost-catching equipment in a 1959 Cadillac that looked eerie, creepy and strange enough to become one of the coolest movie-cars in history.
The vehicle was basically a strengthened version of the long-wheelbase Cadillac Series 355 frame and the Series 75 – intended to carry the extra weight of the bodywork, rear deck and cargo area of funeral coaches and ambulances.
But the new – and possibly improved – Ecto-1 has a slightly grimmer past, as it was a hearse. Based on a 1984 Caddie, the car was chosen for its own unique character that the producers could make it “their own”. And who knows, if the movie succeeds, maybe the new Ecto-1 will become as iconic as the old one.