Ok so this ts technically the second article I have written on making Mad Max with Starfinder, but both of them were in draft and I was just using the core rules until today.

Below is the Police Cruiser from the core rules that I was hacking to better represent a 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe. No autopilot, no autodisabler, no flight mode.

Police Interceptor Level 4

Price 6,195 Large land Vehicle (10 ft. wide, 15 ft. long, 5 ft. high)
Speed 25 ft., full 650 ft., 132 mph (ground)
EAC 17; KAC 19; Cover improved cover
HP 50 (25); Hardness 7
Attack (Collision) 5d6 (DC 13)
Modifiers +2 Piloting, –2 attack (–4 at full speed)
Systems comm unit; Passengers 1 plus 2 prisoners

The mech system is not designed for this, none of the transports are small enough, the Phantom Recon unit is kind of close though. Let’s just start at tier 5 since that’s where the the police cruiser kind of was anyway.

Last of the V8 Interceptors

PHANTOM Tier 5
Initiative +1
Huge mech (phase, recon)
Base HP 47; Hardness 2; Shields 13
EAC 21; KAC 21; Fort +5; Ref +7
Base Speed 80 ft.; Strength +2
Frame Slots 1; Aux Slots 4
Operators 1–2
Cost 2.5 × tier = 12.5

No arms, no legs, just for giggles we’ll buy a Dynamo Mk1 power core which is 5mp (17.5 total) add a haste circuit which we can call the supercharger like in the movie.

REINFORCED FRAME
Effect Increase the mech frame’s base HP by 5, and increase its HP advancement by 1. 15 base hp and 8 adv.
Cost 1 × tier = 5  (22.5mp total)

We’ve seen spiked cars, axle blades, buzzblades, flame throwers (guitar and otherwise), plow plating on the war rig.

If we go to the Jason Statham Death Race movies we get machine guns and gatling guns, shields (the Tombstone), Rocket Launchers on Tyreese’s truck, nitrous tanks,  plow plating on the dreadnought.

Frankenstein’s Monster

GATLING GUN
This rotating deliverer of death sports a half-dozen long barrels that fire high caliber rounds faster than the eye can see.
Ranged; Range 120 ft.; Special automatic
Damage 3d8+5 P; Critical —
Slots 1 (frame, upper limb); Capacity 10
Cost 3 × level = 15mp (37.5mp)

SPIKED SHIELD (Tombstone)
This heavy shield can block incoming attacks or tear into close-up enemies.
Type melee; Special analog, block
Damage 3d6+5 B or P; Critical bleed
Slots 2 (upper limb)
Deflect As a move action, the mech positions its shield to intercept incoming attacks, granting the mech a +1 shield bonus to AC and to Reflex saving throws until the beginning of its next turn. While this effect is active and the mech takes damage from a weapon, the mech can use a reaction to double its hardness against that attack’s damage.
Cost 2.5 × level = 12.5 (50mp)

FLAMETHROWER
This rotating nozzle spews gouts of bone-melting flame from a fuel pack installed deep inside a mech. Each time the mech makes an attack with the flamethrower, the weapon gains either the line weapon special property and a range of 100 feet or it gains the blast weapon special property and a range of 60 feet.
Type ranged; Range 60 ft.; Special ignite
Damage 3d8+5 F; Critical burn
Slots 1 (upper limb); Capacity 5
Cost 4.5 × level = 22.5 (72.5mp)

Haste Circuit for a supercharger

In the playtest, we’re missing the grenade spears, harpoon guns, personal weapons, oil, smoke, spike shains, grappling hooks, mines.

You’re sitting on 2000 horse power of nitro-boosted war machine…

For grins, I want to try and build a War Rig out of a Tier 10 Trooptank

TROOPTANK Tier 10 (145 mech points)
Gargantuan mech
Base HP 110; Hardness 7; Shields 23
EAC 26; KAC 27; Fort +10; Ref +9
Base Speed 60 ft.; Strength +3
Weapon Slots 2; Aux Slots 5
Operators 2–6
Cost 3 × tier 30mp

No arms, no legs, Dynamo Mk1 power core 10mp

FLAMETHROWER
This rotating nozzle spews gouts of bone-melting flame from a fuel pack installed deep inside a mech. Each time the mech makes an attack with the flamethrower, the weapon gains either the line weapon special property and a range of 100 feet or it gains the blast weapon special property and a range of 60 feet.
Ranged; Range 60 ft.; Special ignite
Damage 5d10+10 F; Critical burn
Slots 1 (upper limb); Capacity 5
Cost 4.5 × level = 45mp

GATLING GUN
This rotating deliverer of death sports a half-dozen long barrels that fire high caliber rounds faster than the eye can see.
Type ranged; Range 120 ft.; Special automatic
Damage 5d10+10 P; Critical —
Slots 1 (frame, upper limb); Capacity 10
Cost 3 × level = 30mp

REINFORCED FRAME
Effect Increase the mech frame’s base HP by 5, and increase its HP advancement by 1. 20 hp base and adv 10 / tier
Cost 1 × tier = 10mp

UNBREAKABLE ARMOR
Effect The mech gains a +1 bonus to its KAC and to its Fortitude saving throws. KAC 28, Fort +11
Cost 2 × tier = 20

Plow Plating, Haste Circuit for the nitrous

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