Step One: Survive the apocalypse.
Step Two: Find junky Ford F-100 pickup, preferably red.
Step Three: Paint giant snake on truck.
This is my plan, and I owe it all to The Road Warrior. Yes folks, forget about all of those super-charged, cobbled together vehicles that look really cool but ultimately fall apart like they're made of LEGOs. No, what you really need to survive in the wasteland is a red Ford pickup with a big snake painted on the side. Not only will you look cool, but you'll also insure that you'll survive the big road race at the end. This was a fact that I had forgotten about until yesterday when I caught the movie on television. The moment I saw that truck it all came back to me, and I started to laugh, watching as it was beaten up, run into, and used for all manner of things, but still kept on going so that in the end the survivors of The Humungus' gang were a couple of guys on motorcycles and the snake truck. Yes, the snake truck. Over the years it has become probably my favorite vehicle from the Mad Max series because there is no way that it should have survived, and yet it did, and it was still even in relatively good shape, all things considered.
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