I'm glad you brought this up because I was just speculating about this the other day It never made sense to me because;
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mad Max
bass-player-blues — 10 years ago(June 05, 2015 10:21 PM)
I'm glad you brought this up because I was just speculating about this the other day It never made sense to me because; "last of the V8s" a 1974 car? That same body style Falcon with a V8 was made til' '76 and I don't they ever stopped making V8 cars in Aussie.
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mcgmcgmcg — 10 years ago(March 01, 2016 06:05 PM)
The phrase "last of the V8's" may relate to the time the film was made, 1979.
Oil prices were going up due to some Middle Eastern military conflict at the time. Might have been Iran and the Ayatollah if you remember him.
Anyway, it was said in the media that V8's were on the way out so the film makers probably used that (thankfully incorrect) forecast thinking no V8's in the next couple of years.
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rp69 — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 03:12 PM)
"Last of the V8s". I just took it as it's a post civilized world. Not much is still being manufactured, so people are living on used leftovers from a previous age. I don't think "last of the V8s" was literal. I think it was a rhetorical comment meaning their numbers are dwindling, and not many left.
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ban_one76 — 9 years ago(August 25, 2016 01:05 PM)
I'm going to add a different angle to one of your theories. When questioned by Max, Barry (the mechanic) says "It just happened, Maxyou know, a piece from here and a piece from there." After Max still shows some skepticism, Goose says "Come on, Max. You've seen ityou've heard itand you're still asking questions?" What Goose said, along with the fact he already knows about the Falcon, leads me to believe that Fifi talked the higher-ups in the MFP to spend the money to build the Falcon, because they were about to lose their best man on the road (referenced by Fifi's conversation with Labatouche). Barry was probably being vague on purpose so the real story of how the car came together stayed a secret. That's my take on it, anyway. I've probably read way too far into it, but I've watched and enjoyed this movie a LOT.
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gd5150 — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 11:41 AM)
"A piece from here a piece from there" and he looks at Goose. It's alluding to they got the last of the V8's from nightriders car as it was totaled. The engine could still be salvaged. Stuck a super-charger on it. And fi-fi has the candy he needed. They knew Max was ready to retire and they had to pull out all the stops to keep him on the force.
The last of the V8s because they were probably banned due to an oil shortage.