Wanna know something about petrol going off?
It goes “off” as in out of spec. Not unusable. Not even *bad*.
The trout is on the same tank I last filled it with in June 2025. It runs fine.
I had another Falcon that sat from 2001 to 2009. Ran fine.
Maybe less power, or lower mpg. Couldn’t tell.
A really finely tuned engine control computer might complain, might throw codes. It might be really noticeable on a high compression or high performance engine.
But the mad max wasteland will be fine.
@nazgul It is! Almost literally! There's a great story behind this.
Peter Rader wanted to do what he freely admitted would be a rip-off of Mad Max, in light of its low cost and huge success. To give it a unique spin, they'd set it on water. But they projected that it would cost too much, so they shelved it until they could line up sufficient funding -- $100M (early '90s).
Plagued with problems, the cost ballooned to ~$175M -- the most expensive film ever made to that time.
@nazgul They kind of did, though this kind of film would be very difficult to film in a tank. They built a 'seawater enclosure', which I'm guessing is just what it sounds like, which would be sort of halfway between a tank and open water. (Stephen Spielberg advised them not to film in open water, from his experience on Jaws.) But Hawaii was pretty happy about the troubled production: They made $35M off it!
I forgot to mention, Dean Semler was DP on both WW and The Road Warrior.
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