Fans petition Sony to restore the Ghostbusters car, the Ecto 1A The Ghostbuster ECTO 1A in action. IT started its celluloid career looking like a heap of junk, and it's looking that way again. The car from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters - the Ghostbuster 2 'ECTO-1A' - has been left to rot on a Sony Pictures backlot, and fans are keen to see it restored. The car, which was based on a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Futura ambulance, was for many years on display at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Flordia. The fan group says ECTO-1A is in "dire need of a restoration job ... having sustained a magnitude of damage from its years as a public display piece ... the original vehicle sits neglected." The past few years have seen a variety of iconic movie cars restored. The Lotus submarine car from the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me was restored and sold for about $US1 million, while the Ferrari replica from Ferris Bueller's Day Off went for US$235,000. The modified 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 from the 1983 film Back to the Future has also been painstakingly restored, and went on diaply at Universal Studios in Hollywood in February this year. Click here for the full story and more images.