There’s a museum deep in the Australian outback that most people will never visit, unless they have a penchant for killer cars and marauding bands of bikers. We’re talking about the Max Max 2 Museum, run by Adrian Bennett. He purchased a piece of land in the outback, created a shrine to the 1981 George Miller postapocalyptic action flick, and spoke to website Vice about it recently. Yes, a man built a museum to honor a movie sequel. But it’s not just any sequel. Robert Ebert called it “one of the most relentlessly aggressive movies ever made.” And with a fourth film in the Mad Max series, Mad Max: Fury Road, due out May 2015, the allure of a wandering man battling human scum across a dusty wasteland is higher than ever.

“The idea for the museum came after my first visit [to the outback], when to my surprise there was absolutely nothing to pay homage to Mad Max 2, let alone all the other movies filmed in the region,” Bennett told Vice. “After all, this was supposed to be the Hollywood of the outback, but there wasn't anything from any of the movies that gave you any indication that big movies were filmed here. We're talking about the biggest movie Australia has ever produced, the movie that shook Hollywood up, the movie that put Australia on the map. But no, not one thing. So I decided it was my destiny to build a museum dedicated to Mad Max 2.”

The England-born Bennett’s obsession with Mad Max 2 ran so deep that in his fist act of fandom, he made an expensive purchase: “In 2000, I purchased an Australian Falcon coupe from Texas, and had it shipped to England. Over the next 18 months, I transformed it into an Interceptor, the car Max drives in the two movies. The only replica in Europe at that time. But my real ambition was to visit the movie sites of the first two films.”

The museum collection is made up of items that were purchased, loaned and donated by others. His most prized possessions? “There are two items in particular that are extremely valuable to me and they are the original boomerang and music box that the feral kid had in the movie,” Bennett stated.

And in case you were wondering, he’s totally in support of the upcoming revamp: “When I heard Tom Hardy was cast in the new movie I was elated. I can't think of a more fitting actor to bring this reboot to life. Tom is an incredible actor whose screen presence draws you into a movie. He steals every scene. He'll make a great Max.”

The below clip offers another view of the museum (not from Vice, but full of Aussie slang to die for).

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