Fans want to preserve dilapidated Ghostbusters car

If this is, in fact, one of the "real" Ghostbuster cars (and I have no reason to doubt it's authenticity) then I could honestly support the effort. These cars (the real ones) deserve to be kept as the icons that they are.

I'm actually kind of suprised that this one was allowed to deteriorate/be picked over as it has been. How were visitors to the exhibit allowed access to the interior of the vehicle? Why wasn't it better protected? Questions that deserve answers for my money.
 
Can anyone here confirm that this is one of the actual movie cars? The last I knew, both were still at the studio's museum in Culver City - corrections welcome!
 
Steve Loftin said:
Can anyone here confirm that this is one of the actual movie cars? The last I knew, both were still at the studio's museum in Culver City - corrections welcome!
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I've gotten the same word from another reliable source as well! Even seen both cars in the same shop back in 07 in starting stages of resto jobs.
 
Question?

I didnt see it in either article, but I may have over looked it. But who exactly will own this if/when completed? If a lot a people put money into it, especially good money, I think most of them would want a way to have it for themselves, at least for some time..
 
The car has suffered in recent years following its public display at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. A photo by cheekybama on Instagram shows its current state of disrepair. Sitting forlornly at Sony's prop warehouse, the car has a smashed windshield, crumpled hood and numerous missing parts, while its light bar sits unceremoniously on the hood. During its time in Orlando, the car was crashed into by a studio vehicle, before visitors left their own mark on the car, climbing inside and removing pieces as souvenirs
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If this is one of the Orlando cars..it wasn't one of the movie cars as others have pointed out. This is most likely one of the three ( I think) that they had gone through as "prop cars" in Orlando. Might even be one of the one's I brokered to them back in the 80's when the park was opening and it was a POS back then. But seeing that they bring upwards of $20k anymore.........:cool:
 
more power to them if they want to dump money in it. me I think I'll double mine but folding it over and putting it back in my pocket
 
As the saying goes, "follow the money."

I would think that Sony Pictures would have more than enough money to restore a GB car (picture car or one from Orlando) if they felt like doing so. So why is someone requesting donations?

Sumptin' fishy goin' on 'round here. :confused2:
 
It was always my understanding that the beaten up car that Dan Aykroyd drove to the firehouse in the movie was one car, and that the restored white car was another. I also seem to remember the beater originally came from the Chicago area. Probably the best person to ask on all this would be Dean Newman.
 
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