ECTO-1 Ectomobile’s Rear Compartment, Ghostbusters Movie Car

ECTO-1 began life as a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor, built on Cadillac's commercial chassis and originally sold as a combination ambulance-hearse. For the 1984 film "Ghostbusters," production designer John DeCuir Jr. and car customizer Stephan Dane converted the car into the team's proton-pack-loaded ghost-hunting rig, adding the rear-mounted equipment console, roof-mounted sensors, and the now-familiar red-and-white paint scheme. The rear compartment housed the fictional Ghost Trap mechanism and a bank of switches and gauges meant to power the team's containment gear. Universal Studios and private collectors have since built and restored several ECTO-1 replicas for films, conventions, and museum displays, keeping the Miller-Meteor's boxy 1959 body style in circulation decades after Cadillac discontinued it.

Photo taken in April 2008.