Meanwhile, back in Fraser St, the gang is getting restless. A bikie (a Vigilantes member), does a burn out and a wheel stand. Another gang member throws a drink into the face of a local. A chant begins: “Push me, shove you”, “Oh yeah, says who?”. The local is chased into the Town Hall Hotel as the Toecutter is called back from the station by gang members.
After an unseen fight, the local is thrown out through the door of the Town Hall Hotel, landing in the street’s blue stone gutters, before being tied behind a motorbike and dragged down Fraser Street. ‘7 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Mad Max’, relates that the script originally called for the local to be thrown through the window, but due to budget constraints, a false door was built on the Town Hall Hotel specifically for this scene. At this stage, the ‘Talbot and Clunes Conservation Study’ was nine years from being written, it’s consequently unclear as to whether this building had heritage protection at the time of filming Mad Max.
A young couple, looking on in panic, dive into their Chevy Impala in an effort to hurriedly leave town, narrowly avoiding an angry Toecutter returning from the station. According to Madmaxmovies.com, in an earlier sequence, cut from the Fraser Street scene, the young couple had a more congenial relationship with the Toecutter, with him admiring their car while rolling a cocaine-laced cigarette. This scene never made the final version of the film, which may also explain the continuity issue with the Station Master remaining alive.
The Clunes segment of Mad Max ends with the Toecutter gang chasing the young couple’s Chevy Impala out of town.