The ectomobile now features Sony’s slim series subwoofers, a DVD A/V system, iPod adapter, and Sony marine amps (to cope with all that ectoplasm, presumably) and some hefty speakers. It also has a Sony MP3 player, 10-disc CD changer and NV-U83T navigation system installed.

From a very interesting blog post written by Mark Harris for TechRadar UK. Looks like the car is going to SEMA this year. 2009 is going to be a great year to be a ghosthead.

Ghostheads, the Ghostbusters community podcast, has launched its second episode. Ron Daniels and Jason Hughes were kind enough to invite Proton Charging’s Chris Stewart and yours truly for a roundtable discussion. The show notes are below, enjoy!

News Minutes 3 to 20

• Ecto 1 Tour
• Ghostbusters TV presented by Central Oklahoma Ghostbusters
• Ernie Hudson and USF Ecto 1 at Adventurecon
• Kubrick Figures
• No Louis in Ghostbusters The Game?

Featured Site Minutes 21 to 26

• Arizona Ghostbusters – http://www.arizonaghostbusters.com

Featured Segment: Roundtable Discussion with Chris Stewart from Proton Charging and Chad Paulson from Ghostbusters.net Minutes 26 to 58

• Special Ghostbusters.net Announcement from Chad Paulson: 53:00

World of the Physic Minutes 58 to 59

Mailbag Minutes 59 to 77

• Original Ghostbusters Radio Ads:
  http://forums.ghostbusters.net/viewtopic.php?t=4786&highlight=radio
• RGB Score Petition:
  http://www.petitiononline.com/rgbmusic/petition.html

Email your questions/comments/suggestions to ghostheads@gmail.com

As part of the promotion of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, the Ecto-1 will take a tour around the United States (dates below).  Chris from Proton Charging noticed the schedule does not include the San Diego Comic Con (thanks to AJ from GB Fans for the revised schedule below) while I’m wondering why we aren’t seeing a Chicago date.

• June 21 - Hot Import Nights New York (Elmont, NY) 
• July 24-27 - San Diego Comic Con (San Diego, CA)
• August 9 - Hot Import Nights Pomona (Pomona, CA) 
• August 29-31 - Penny Arcade Expo (Seattle, WA) 
• Sept. 20 - Hot Import Nights Pleasanton (Pleasanton, CA) 
• Sept. 27 - Hot Import Nights Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) 
• Oct. 11 - Hot Import Nights Dallas (Dallas, TX) 
• Oct. 15 - Nov. 1 - Knott’s Scary Farm (Buena Park, CA) 
• Nov. 19-30 - L.A. Auto Show (Los Angeles, CA)

Ernie Hudson poses in from of the Ectomobile owned by Paul Francis with his now famous “Winston Rules” t-shirt during Adventurecon 2008 in Knoxville Tennessee.

Ghosthead Paul Francis, who purchased and restored the 1959 Miller Meteor Ghostbusters Ectomobile from Universal Studios in February of 2007, was recently included in an article by the Knoxville News Sentinal about AdventureCon in the Knoxville Convention Center.

Nearly 100,000 people gathered during the 2nd Annual Red Bull Flugtag London’s Hyde Park to watch contestants glide interesting contraptions over cold water.  One of the flying machines entered into the contest was an Ecto-1.  

Read more about the event here.  Kudos to Proton Charging for finding photos of the Ecto-Flugtag.

As the images from the London Movie Comic & Media Expo start rolling in from Flickr, I couldn’t help but notice the fact that the Ecto-1 on display is not the same as the newly restored original vehicle AJ Quick from GB Fans took photos of earlier this year.

The car looks to be a 1959 Cadillac outfitted from either S&S or Eureka. The original car used in the film was a 1959 Cadillac Combination (Hearse / Ambulance) outfitted by Miller Meteor. As a proud owner of a 1959 Miller Meteor, I can respect Sony’s wishes not to haul the original car around the world, and I think it is great they took the time to build out a great promo car.

The cost to ship my car from Anchorage Alaska to Chicago was a small fortune, I couldn’t imagine shipping it over seas, yikes!

UPDATE: Ghosthead Kingpin has the scoop on the car. It can be found here.

Kenner Ecto-1 With Lights & Sound!

RC Kenner Ecto-1 With Remote Control!

Goosebuster from GB Fans wanted to build an RC Ecto-1 for ages, so he finally went and did it!  Check out the video below.  

We have to get these two together, I think that would be extraordinarily delicious!