Everyone can relax I’ve found the car
April 24th, 2007
If you’re a Ghostbuster nut job like myself then you would have recognised the line in the title. If you didn’t don’t feel bad it’s the line that Stantz says when he pulls up with the Ectomobile in it’s former run down guise.
And like that moment I too now have a 1984 run down Ectomobile toy that my Mum got imported for my birthday at the end of the month. I know! What am I doing with it early? I just do.
The car is in pretty bad shape, the body appears to be in perfect condition except it is covered in mud or dirt. It’s missing all of its stickers but it does have its original ghost and the claw and chair intact too. The first thing I’m going to do is remove both the claw and chair as they seem stupid to me.
So now what I’m going to do is restore it, it’ll take me a couple of months I imagine but as I said the body is in great condition and I worked out that I can remove everything so that will make spray painting the body a lot easier!
I am torn though.
My first thoughts were to completely refit the model adding extra stuff to it like headlights etc. But now the more I look at it the more I think I want to be a little more subtle and retain a lot of its cartoon charm.
All that means is that I won’t be replacing the spaces for the headlights or changing the grill to silver. What I will still be doing is adding four proton packs into the back and putting flashing leds into the clear emergency lights. I will probably keep my eye out for toy parts to bulk up the top too as right now it’s designed to have the chair stuck to it (????).
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I had one of those… they were sweet.
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AWESOME!!! I always wanted one of these when I was a kid!
Never got one though 
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MC - I had all the figurines but none of the vehicles - the next thing I’ve got my eye on is the firestation playset.
Matt - Me too - except I now have one LOL took long enough though. I remember getting the figurines and being disappointed because they didn’t look like the movie characters.
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Nice find.
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