Ghostbusters car for sale

WHO YA GONNA CALL? A 1959 Cadillac Ecto-1, the same model used in the 1984 movie Ghostbusters is up for auction.

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If you've ever wanted to save the world from a giant marshmallow monster, here's the car for you - a replica of the Ghostbusters' famous Ecto-1.

It will go under the hammer at Historics at Brooklands's auction in Britain this month.

More than US$100,000 has been spent restoring and converting this former ambulance. It is not the car used in the 1984 film.

The 1959 Cadillac spent 20 years at an American church, where it was used for parades. The owner bought it in 2007 and had it shipped to England, where he turned it into a Ghostbusters tribute.

"The car was about to be scrapped when I discovered it and the restoration has been a real labour of love," the owner says.

The auction house says the car could fetch US$140,000 on September 25. For that, you get a 6.5-litre V8, just the thing to haul the six-metre-long, two-metre-wide wagon.

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