Sleepwalkers, The Body With the trans mocked into place, Gearstar technicians marked the area with a Sharpie, then cut and removed the metal section with a cutoff wheel. Contents. Size The M274 Mule is a machine gun-armed military vehicles that is one of many inanimate electronic machines influenced by a menacing eldritch comet's energy and a minor antagonist in the 1986 comedy horror film Maximum Overdrive. [2] In a 2002 interview with Tony Magistrale for the book Hollywood's Stephen King, King stated that he was "coked out of [his] mind all through its production, and [he] really didn't know what [he] was doing". M247 Mule Roger Hagstrom. While talking to Andy the truck driver in the gas station, the M60 aims at Bill in intimidation. Since the metal flap isn’t a structural member, it has no adverse affects on chassis stiffness. Elmo Blatch | Malachai Boardman) | The Mule fires its post-mounted M60 machine gun into the building, killing several people. Rose the Hat | GearStar Performance Transmission 132 N. Howard St, Akron, OH 44308 Email: [email protected] Sales & Info: 330-434-5216 Parts: 330-434-0104 Fax: 330-434-3634, © 2020 Gearstar Performance Transmissions. John Shooter, Sleepwalkers Deke makes it to the truck stop later that evening and tries to enter via the sewers, but is obstructed by the wire mesh covering the opening. except on a somewhat grander scale", and added that as a director Stephen King "proves that he hasn't got an ounce of visual style, the vaguest idea of how to direct actors or the sense that God gave a grapefruit." Bill and Brett, a hitchhiker, rush to help them, but the trucks attack them. AC/DC's album Who Made Who was released as the Maximum Overdrive soundtrack. Barton George Dawes | Tak, Doctor Sleep [5] The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and Yeardley Smith.The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story "Trucks", which was included in the author's first collection of short stories, Night Shift.. The car has run deep 10’s on motor; indicative of 8-second potential on spray. John "Ace" Merrill | It’s not the cheapest option out there, but it’s a long-term solution to a long term problem, and it’s something you’ll only have to do once. Gearstar’s test mule is a 2000 Camaro SS that packs a 444ci C5R-based LS1 with AFR heads, 13.0:1 compression, a big solid-roller cam, and a 300-shot of nitrous. For this particular swap, the mule sports an 11-inch billet 3,600-stall converter. Christine | Lin Sue | The M60 is unable to shoot them, and both the Mule and the M60 are blown up by the grenade. Later, several big rig trucks encircle the truck stop. History has proven that the swap in question is an endeavor that’s very common, yet rarely executed. For those seeking the simplest path to installing the ultimate overdrive into your fourth-gen, Gearstar has a complete bundled package that includes a 4L85E trans, custom crossmember, a Yank torque converter, and a custom-length heavy-duty steel driveshaft all for $5,000. Max Devore | Gunning down humans.Consuming fuels served by humans. Richard Straker, Secret Window, Secret Garden He is best known for his film work in the original John Waters’s Hairspray; the Oscar-nominated Fly Away Home; Six Ways to Sunday; Spin the Bottle; and Offspring, as well as his television work on Damages, Rescue Me, Law & Order, Army Wives, and New York Undercover. It | At a roadside truck stop just outside Wilmington, North Carolina, an employee, Duncan Keller, is blinded after a gas dispenser sprays diesel in his eyes. Lester Norville | The next morning, a Caterpillar D7G bulldozer and an M274 Mule drive through the diner. Evil Dead II is a 1987 American comedy horror film directed by Sam Raimi, and a parody sequel to the 1981 horror film The Evil Dead. Eventually, the survivors escape to the docks where the featured Green Goblin semi kills one more trucker. Lloyd Henreid | Late-models are all about knocking down 25 mpg on the way to the track, effortlessly clicking off 10-second passes while the muscle guys watch in disbelief. Not only is it ridiculously easy to eclipse the 500hp mark with either an LT1 or LS1 Camaro, the fact that fourth-gens are already anywhere from 7-to 16-years-old and usually have tons of miles on the clock-only compounds matters. This isn’t necessary with the 4L85E; as it was designed for LS-series motors from the get go. Sisters, Roadwork Needless to say, it fit beautifully beneath a fourth-gen and looks like a factory install. A waitress, Wanda June, is injured by an electric knife, and arcade machines in the back room electrocute another victim. The semi is destroyed and the humans sail off to safety. Craig Toomey | The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King's short story "Trucks", which was included in the author's first collection of short stories, Night Shift . The M274 Mule is a small vehicle used by the U.S. Military, which saw use in military bases and the Vietnam War. The commodious overall dimensions of the trans tunnel enables it to swallow up a 4L85E with next to no cutting or clearancing. If the added vibrations are too harsh for your tastes, a factory GM 1LE rubber mount (PN 22146231) is a good alternative. Jim Rennie | Hotel Caretaker | The survivors soon realize they have become enslaved by their own machines. The movie opens with a shot of Earth surrounded by green fog and states that on June 19, 1987, apocalyptic mayhem ensues when a strange radiation from a closely passing rogue comet, Rhea-M, causes all manner of mechanical and electrical devices from household appliances to vehicles across the planet Earth to become sentient, self-aware and genocidal for eight days, twenty-nine minutes, and twenty-three seconds. Employee and ex-convict Bill Robinson begins to suspect something is wrong. The film contained black humor elements and a generally campy tone, which contrasts with King's sombre subject matter in books. Church | He is also known for Repo Man, The Mighty Ducks and its sequels, Stakeout and Another Stakeout, Maximum Overdrive, Bobby, and his performances in Western films such as Young Guns and its sequel Young Guns II. From this view, it’s clear where the dust cover area of the trans case will smack into the passenger-side header if it isn’t ground down. United States of America, The Shining It tells the story of an unmanned, self-driving mysterious car which goes on a murderous rampage, terrorizing the residents of a small town. Frank P. Keller was an American film and television editor with 24 feature film credits from 1958 - 1977. Previously in the film the protagonist Bill Robinson speculates a fact if the vehicles are controlled by a comet. Both the vehicle and machine gun operate differently but cooperate to gun down humans. "Dixie Boy" is also the name of a truck stop in the Syfy television series Haven. Maximum Overdrive is King's only directorial effort, though dozens of films have been based on his novels or short stories. Lee Harvey Oswald | It’s affixed to the Moser 9-inch rearend with custom billet steel U-joint straps. He is considered to be one of the film industry's most accomplished stunt drivers. It ended a bout of writer's block from which King had been suffering. Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 film based on the short story Trucks by Stephen King. SentienceDurability. John Rainbird, Gerald's Game Doctor Herman Pynchot | Ralph White | The M247 Mule is a gray M274 ½-ton 4×4 utility platform truck with no driver's seat and a post-mounted M60 machine gun. Chaos sets in as machines of all kinds begin attacking humans. Moonlight Man | Since the 4L85E was designed specifically for LS-series motors, it features a boss at the top of the bellhousing-which is absent in the 4L80E-that mates with the extra dowel on LS blocks. When a strange comet causes all of Earth's machines to gain sentience and become murderous, a group of survivors is holed up in a gas station by a gang of vehicles, including an M247 Mule with the ability to speak in Morse code. Richard Hagstrom | [5] The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and Yeardley Smith. [14] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade D+ on scale of A to F. [15], In Leonard Maltin's annual publication TV Movie Guide, the film is given a "BOMB" rating. The B&M shift cable and trans brake line were routed through a factory hole located on the trans tunnel right above the crossmember mount. Happy Toyz Truck | Barry Dorgan | Worse still, the movie never really builds up any momentum or jars us with unexpected jolts of horror." A waitress, Wanda June, is injured by an electric … The first step in swapping the ultimate overdrive into a fourth-gen is removing the stock 4L60, which involves disconnecting the g-load brace, trans crossmember, torque arm, shifter, and driveshaft.