“IT’S HAD FIVE OWNERS IN 45 YEARS AND STILL HAS THE ORIGINAL ENGINE”
AUSSIE movie Mad Max opens with the Nightrider and his girlfriend flying across western Victoria in a black HQ coupe, pursued by members of Main Force Patrol in their brightly-coloured Falcon chasers. The Nightrider has their measure until he comes up against the MFP’s top pursuit man, Max Rockatansky, who causes the fugitives to perish in a fiery crash.
The Nightrider was a member of a feral motorcycle gang led by the Toecutter, which takes over the small country town of Clunes to retrieve their former comrade’s body from the railway station. While there, one of the bikies engages in
