Schultz, Volo Auto Museum) So What Happens Now?
It is said – perhaps apocryphally – that it ended up causing many traffic accidents while New Yorkers gawked.
GHOSTBUSTERS ECTO 1 MOVIE
To say it was an attention-getter is an understatement, particularly as the movie became well known. To promote the movie, the producers sent the car blazing around New York City. A sound designer, Richard Beggs, in a fit of crazed genius, decided to create the Ecto’s odd siren sound by taking a leopard snarl and playing it backwards. Within less than a month, the Ecto 1 emerged. Prop and paint folks at the Burbank Studio went to work. After Reitman gave him the greenlight, he was off and running. Dane drew up sketches as to what he thought it should look like, right down to details on the roofrack. To go from the original to Ecto 1, the production company sent it to a guy named Steve Dane. By 1962, they dominated that market, so it’s no surprise that the Ecto 1 came from them. They didn’t leave GM in finished form, though: they went to a bunch of third-party fabricators, with this one going to an outfit called Miller-Meteor, which worked exclusively on the Caddy chassis.
GHOSTBUSTERS ECTO 1 PROFESSIONAL
The base model is the ’59 Caddy Fleetwood professional “end loader,” used primarily as ambulances and hearses. As they all note in retrospect: really good call. Someplace there, the Ecto 1 went from sinister to hilarious. Well, one happy week in Martha’s Vineyard, Akroyd, Ramis and Reitman sat down and re-wrote the whole thing, with a real comedic focus, on an electric typewriter. So, too, was the original Ecto 1 concept: it was a sinister black, looking more like a hearse than an emergency response vehicle, with purple lights on it. Akroyd’s early drafts were decidedly dark, with lots of references to real occultists and metaphysics. The first drafts were the brainchild of Akroyd, but Director Ivan Reitman suggested bringing on the brilliant Harold Ramis, both as a writer and as an actor, ultimately becoming the Dr. Needs some suspension work and shocks and brakes, brake pads, linings, steering box, transmission, rear-end – only $4,800 – maybe new rings, also mufflers.” And with that, the world was introduced to the Ghostbusters’ legendary Ecto 1, aka, The Ectomobile. He jumped out: “Everybody can relax, I found the car. Dan Akroyd wheeled the monster ’59 Caddy into the firehouse driveway like he’d done it every day of his life.
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