A 1948 Hillman Minx body welded onto a Mitsubishi L300 van chassis sounds like the fever dream of a backyard fabricator with too much time and not enough supervision. But this is a real vehicle, built for Mad Max: Fury Road, and it’s currently up for auction on eBay through Goldin. The catch: you’ve almost certainly never noticed it on screen.
According to the listing, this Frankenstein buggy appeared briefly on a car carrier near the rear of Immortan Joe’s convoy. Blink and you’d miss it. Some scenes featuring the car were cut entirely.
When it was previously offered by Propstore Auction in 2024, it was identified as one of the Buzzard buggies that swarm Furiosa’s War Rig early in the film. The Buzzards’ vehicles were covered in metal spikes, so it’s plausible this Hillman was originally prepped for that sequence, never made the final edit, and got shuffled to the background as rolling set dressing. That makes it the ultimate movie extra. Not a star. Not even a speaking part. Just a face in the crowd.
Still, the build itself has real personality. The rusted Minx body is genuine, because nobody on earth would bother fabricating a replica of a 1948 Hillman. The L300 chassis underneath is sturdy, purpose-built for hauling, and gives the thing a surprisingly solid backbone. Jacked-up rear suspension, oversized tires, and exhaust routed out through the rear wheel well create something that looks like it escaped from a 1970s van magazine and rolled through a scrapyard on the way out.
The engine isn’t specified, but it’s likely whatever small gasoline or diesel four-cylinder came with the donor L300. A five-speed manual transmission sends power through. Because the car is right-hand drive, built in Australia where the film was shot, you shift with your left hand.
The interior is pure stunt rig: roll cage, accessible handbrake, battery kill switch. Function over form, which is exactly the philosophy that made Fury Road’s vehicle fleet so convincing.
The listing says everything works, then immediately adds the caveat that the car is “not intended for driving.” That’s the kind of legal language that makes you wonder who tried to register one of these at the DMV and what happened next.
The major Fury Road hero cars were auctioned off years ago, fetching serious money. The Gigahorse, the Doof Wagon, the War Rig. Those were headliners. This Hillman-Mitsubishi hybrid occupies a very different tier of the collector market.
It’s a curiosity, a conversation piece, and a genuinely weird machine that exists only because George Miller’s production team built roughly 150 vehicles for a single movie and needed every last one of them to populate the Wasteland. No price estimate has been published. The previous Propstore listing didn’t result in a publicly reported sale.
The audience for a right-hand-drive, non-road-legal, barely-on-screen movie prop car built from two obscure platforms is, to put it gently, niche. But someone out there wants this thing badly enough to bid on it. The auction is live, and the desert is patient.
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