# Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Replica on Channel 5's Fifth Gear **URL:** \ **Category:** Ghostbusters News\ **Created:** [July 1, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260 "2009-07-01T06:11:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![river\_of\_slime](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@river\_of\_slime](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/river_of_slime)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/21 "2009-07-02T20:49:45Z")
the european car started out as a S&S coach and he costom it to make it look more like a MM… Also in 59 MM made 88 limo style combos ---
**Author:** ![kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/kingpin/32/188026_2.png) [@kingpin](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/kingpin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/22 "2009-07-02T21:15:45Z")
> [@river\_of\_slime](#): > > the european car started out as a S&S coach and he costom it to make it look more like a MM… Also in 59 MM made 88 limo style combos When did you get in touch with him, Chuck? Email, I presume. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![river\_of\_slime](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@river\_of\_slime](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/river_of_slime)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/23 "2009-07-02T21:37:36Z")
No Ben, I just remember seeing the car last yr before he changed the back windows. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Roach\_On\_Twelve](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/the_roach_on_twelve/32/3983_2.png) [@The\_Roach\_On\_Twelve](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/The_Roach_On_Twelve)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/24 "2009-07-03T00:49:36Z")
> [@AJ Quick](#): > > So much of it has been modified that you guys don’t even really know how it started out. It is possible that it wasn’t even a 59 Hearse to begin with… True, But thats not what it’s there for. Where an Ecto replica is supposed to look like something. These are supposed to go fast and be functional. ---
**Author:** ![69428scj](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/6/b38774/32.png) [@69428scj](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/69428scj)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/25 "2009-07-03T16:10:20Z")
Guys, that dragster is a 2:3 size replica. It’s made of fiberglass, so have no fear…it is not metal. And the fact that the european Ecto started out as an S&S makes me very sad. I’m all about the Ecto, but to take such a rare and well regarded coach builder and modify it like that is blaspheme, at least from a collector’s standpoint. ---
**Author:** ![jettajeffro](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@jettajeffro](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/jettajeffro)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/26 "2009-07-03T18:58:27Z")
Are the new back windows actually cut into it or are they faux windows? I’m not sure if there was a clear shot through the divider to be able to tell. Considering those were pretty big support areas for the roof to hack into. ---
**Author:** ![aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/aj-quick/32/188008_2.png) [@aj-quick](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/aj-quick)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/27 "2009-07-03T19:46:16Z")
No! Which is why I think it is rediculous that **anyone** would be upset about those windows. They are most likely just black stickers and some kind of chrome edging. Professional car collectors made the same fuss when Sean turned his Superior Hearse into a Superior Ambulance. He cut the rear windows in and had everything done to the **exact** blueprints.. so it came out as a perfect Ambulance.. and yet people are pissed off about that. I guess those idiots would rather have seen an unrestored and rotting Superior Hearse than a fully restored Superior Ambulance… ---
**Author:** ![69428scj](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/6/b38774/32.png) [@69428scj](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/69428scj)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/28 "2009-07-05T07:09:50Z")
Actually I think they were more pissed about him modifying the coach to turn it into an Ecto moreso than opening up the windows…at least that’s what I gather by talking to most of them. ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_AKA](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/dan_aka/32/5932_2.png) [@Dan\_AKA](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Dan_AKA)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/29 "2009-07-05T08:12:18Z")
> [@69428scj](#): > > Actually I think they were more pissed about him modifying the coach to turn it into an Ecto moreso than opening up the windows…at least that’s what I gather by talking to most of them. They can cry me a river, build a bridge and get the hell over it. ---
**Author:** ![Leon\_Zundinger](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@Leon\_Zundinger](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/Leon_Zundinger)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/30 "2009-07-05T15:38:13Z")
> [@Kingpin](#): > > > [@Leon Zundinger](#): > > > > 400 eh? 🆒 I’m surprised there are that many Ecto-1 replica’s even around > > He was talking about 400 Miller Meteors, not Ecto replicas. Well that’s what I meant. 400 Ecto’s is not very realistic. :walterpeck: In hindsight, though, most Ecto replica’s aren’t even MM’s, I think! :lol: ---
**Author:** ![shodanmark](https://forum.gbfans.com/user_avatar/forum.gbfans.com/shodanmark/32/6715_2.png) [@shodanmark](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/shodanmark)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/31 "2009-07-12T20:57:15Z")
We hung out with Milton’s Ecto 1 featured on Fifth Gear, today! ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00360.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00361.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00362.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00363.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00364.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00365.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00366.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00367.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00370.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00381.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00382.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00391.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00392.jpg) ![image]([http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum](http://www.gbfans.com/images/pb/shodanmark/Movieum) SFX Weekend\_DSC00396.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![luke-o](https://forum.gbfans.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@luke-o](https://forum.gbfans.com/u/luke-o)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260/32 "2009-07-21T21:14:12Z")
Man I so want one. That and a Delorian. Would never drive them, just have them sit on my driveway. [Previous page](https://forum.gbfans.com/t/ghostbusters-ecto-1-replica-on-channel-5s-fifth-gear/6260.md?page=1)