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Most of you know of the cars in it, but not necessarily the story behind each. This is Gigahorse. It was the head bad guy's car in Mad Max Fury Road. Originally the power plant was going to be a single V8 with two made up of a dummy on each side to make it look like it had twin engines. The engineers and mechanics had said, "nah, let's keep it simple and bolt in two engines.""You can do that?""Not a problem, just a little work in the bell housing."Originally it had a Turbo 400 as its transmission, but they gave up and fitted an Allison truck transmission. That is a pair of 600 cubic inch Chevy crate motors, putting out 1200 horsepower