You know you're an obsessive Mad Max costumer when:

[Max Replica]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN OBSESSIVE MAD MAX COSTUMER WHEN:

You regularly scour eBay UK and eBay australia for old firefighting tools, hoping to find a set "cheap" (for less than $200).

You can spot the difference between Rawlings C-46 and CP-66 shoulder pads.

You pull over when you see a medical supply store in hopes that they might have a vintage AFO brace tucked away in the back.

You finally find a correct vintage fireman's axe online, pay an enormous amount of money for it, and then as soon as it arrives you saw the handle in half to make it "correct".

You know the difference between the Gerber knife in The Road Warrior and the one in Aliens.

You've gone to a little league baseball game and offered the kids cash for some of their protective equipment.

When you see an old Ford F-series pickup you immediately look at the tailgate hinges.

You can't resist browsing through leather jackets in used clothing stores, just on the off chance they might have a rare Australian jacket. Even though you already own one.

You've bought a riveting kit and taught yourself to rivet leather.

You've eaten out of a dog food can at a costume party.

You've considered applying for a class 3 firearms license just so that you'd be able to legally own a sawed-off double barreled shotgun.

You know that there is an obscure group of fetishists that like to take pictures of women in vintage leg braces... because you've seen some crazy pictures come up when you google vintage leg brace, and because they're the ones who keep outbidding you on those damn eBay AFO brace auctions.

You notice when a fan's Road Warrior jacket is using a serial number badge from the first Mad Max movie by mistake.

You've actually had a debate with another fan about whether or not Max's red rag that he ties on his jacket is an automotive shop rag or just a red piece of cloth.

You've considered buying a replica of the exact style of fork Max ate his Dinki-Di with.

You wonder if it would be possible to get someone in Australia to ship over some red outback dirt to weather your costume with.

You wonder what kind of socks Max wore.

[the armourer]

You are an unemployed high school Junior who can't afford to buy a leather jacket so you start to rework your "Members Only" jacket(remember them?) after seeing Mad Max 2. Getting as far as adding zippers to both sleeves.

You spend a whole Saturday in the garage with tape, scissors, and sheets of cardboard trying to build a decent Interceptor nose mock-up for your 64 Barracuda. (I wish I'd taken pictures)

On the above. You start cussing about the Florida heat and not having an air conditioned garage but then your mind tells you that Max would never bitch about the heat.

You build a very real looking but non-functioning sawed-off shotgun in Metal Shop class only to have the instructor confiscate and destroy it because he thinks it looks TOO real. But he gives you an "A" anyways because he did like the workmanship.

You have the same thing happen when you build an arm-mounted crossbow that actually shoots.

You have a cease-and-desist meeting with your metal shop instructor over building such weapons.

[HUMVEE Driver]

I have done almost ALL of those things! I SOOOO know what you are talking about in regard to the firefighting tools!


-When you agonize for hours over cutting up that KAFO kneebrace in order to make it movie accurate, even though you paid $150.00 for it on eBay for the sole purpose up cutting it up to make it movie accurate.

-Whenever you see a fellow costumer in his/her Road Warrior costume, the first thing you do is look to see if they have the small key pocket on the front so you know that their jacket is inaccurate.

-Every time you spot an old Ford truck for sale on the side of the road, you look to see if it would be a good canidate for conversion to a Humungus Machine. (At least I do!)

HUMVEE Driver

[Road Pig]

i dont know about pretending to eat from a dogfood tin at a party, but ive eaten real dogfood from a tin

[the armourer]

i dont know about pretending to eat from a dogfood tin at a party, but ive eaten real dogfood from a tin

I wasn't going to admit it, but since someone else has done it too, I will. I ate a can of Alpo beef chunks in gravy on a $20 bet. This was back in school in '82 and a bunch of us were sitting around before class talking about MM2 and the subject of the Dinki Di came up. It was the general consensus that you would get sick doing so and I disagreed. So a $20 wager was made and I accepted. So that night I went to the store and looked over what was there and bought a can of the higher quality Alpo. I knew it wouldn't make me sick because it did not harm dogs, besides, it's a fact that the flesh of any fur-bearing mammal is edible with the exception of polar bear liver. And I noticed from feeding my dog that the stuff didn't smell that bad. The potential taste was the only part that bothered me. I even went through my mother's good silver set to find the most ornate fork there. So the next day at lunch I had a bit of an audience. I opened the can with my little p-38 opener, pulled out my fork and dug in. The stuff wasn't that bad. Very salty. Some Tabasco Sauce would have helped. I even made the exagerated swallowing sound like Max did. I ate half the can and happily collected my money. That was gasoline for the week.

[Suede]

When you buy an aussie cattle dog..

when youve a fairly cherry 72 lincoln that you fairly demolish from your daily driver with lift kits, expanded metal, roll bars and offroad tires.

you daily clothes end up getting you asked, near daily, "what band are you with?"

youve actually a truly bad leg, unfortunately the right, and look for an kafo style brace, but none exist these days.

You look for the raglans shirts on ebay.

You considering asking if "have you seen the roadwarrior and did you dig it" as a major dating tool.

[The ferret kid]

Now I can understand all that you say - especialy the dog food can trick?
Ebay, leather jackets - it all makes sense.

Here is my Mate Chris - as the Golden youth - eating up his dinki d?

Enjoy

[Max Replica]

Funny picture. Love the wig.
Please tell me it's a wig.

Any more photos of the Golden Youth costume? You don't see those too often.

[The ferret kid]

Hi,
Yes its a wig. Here's one of him swinging the pick axe handle - looking down the barrel of a .50 browning? We were getting ready to go out in the vehicles at this point.

[Max Replica]

It would be funny if he walked around all day with a metal boomerang stuck in his head.

Getting this thread back on topic,
You know you're an obsessive Mad Max costumer when:

You get sick and tired of not finding a hydrant spanner on Australian eBay for almost a year so you learn silicone molding and resin casting.