00:00 00;00;00;00 - 00;00;22;22 Mark At Parker Brothers Concepts in Florida,
00:06 the only restriction is imagination.
00:08 00;00;22;22 - 00;00;27;22 Mark First rule at Parker Brothers is if we're going to build
00:11 it, it is going to be a drivable vehicle.
00:12 00;00;27;22 - 00;00;33;22 Mark Their client list includes celebrities and Hollywood movie
00:16 studios.
00:17 00;00;33;22 - 00;00;40;00 Shannon You only see this kind of stuff in movies.
00:23 It's awesome.
00:24 00;00;40;00 - 00;00;44;00 Mark Mark and Shannon Parker design and build incredible concept
00:27 cars, custom motorbikes and stunning drivable recreations of the most outlandish movie vehicles.
00:35 00;00;44;00 - 00;00;56;00 Mark Somebody comes to us and says, I want a car with some rims
00:42 and a ground effects and a paint job and all that's boring.
00:45 00;00;56;00 - 00;01;00;00 Mark You know, we want to we want to show people that you can
00:48 do things that have never been done before and push the envelope a little bit and create
00:53 things that are kind of iconic.
00:55 00;01;00;00 - 00;01;10;00 Mark Shannon's the designer.
00:59 I mean, he comes up with these ideas.
01:01 A lot of his inspiration, I think, comes more from from comic books and movies, and he'll
01:05 come up with these just really outlandish ideas and then bring me a drawing and go,
01:11 hey, let's build this.
01:12 00;01;10;00 - 00;01;22;00 Mark And I'll look at it and go, what were you thinking?
01:15 He thinks if he can draw it on paper that I can build it out of metal.
01:18 Unfortunately, you know, it's a little more difficult than that.
01:20 Everything we build is drivable.
01:21 00;01;22;00 - 00;01;34;00 Mark So then I have to come up with the way of taking his idea
01:25 and his inspiration and kind of turning it into something that's actually functional.
01:29 00;01;34;00 - 00;01;41;00 Mark It's really kind of a back and forth.
01:30 We have to tweak it a little bit because, you know, a lot of times when I draw it, it's
01:35 too far out there and he has to kind of rein me back in a little bit.
01:38 But it's that collaboration that makes the vehicles turn out so cool.
01:42 00;01;41;00 - 00;01;56;00 As well as concept and custom builds, they also make replicas
01:46 of famous movie vehicles, including Optimus Prime from Transformers.
01:51 The Shredder from Battleship and Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters.
01:56 But the most stunning is the Assault Tumbler from The Dark Knight Rises.
02:00 We had to build every inch of this from scratch, the frame, the chassis, the body, the interior,
02:06 the suspension, the wheels, the glass.
02:09 I mean, pretty much all we could buy was a motor and it was it was pretty tricky.
02:15 Now the whole chassis and body is a tubular chassis and it's all steel construction.
02:20 It's not roomy inside, but it's pretty comfortable, actually, you know, and it drives out really
02:26 well.
02:27 We had to add a lot of little cameras.
02:29 There's a lot of tiny little micro cams all over it.
02:32 And there's seven or eight video screens on the inside because there are a lot of blind
02:37 spots.
02:38 Yeah, the gas mileage on this thing is not the greatest.
02:41 You know, it does have a Corvette engine in it because of the shape of it.
02:45 There's not enough room to put the motor in the front where it would normally go.
02:49 So what we had to do was put the motor in backwards.
02:53 So the motors here and the transmission is actually inside the vehicle and that runs
02:58 into a gearbox that drops down and then the drive shaft comes back underneath the motor
03:04 and back to the rear end.
03:06 The turbine here, which we originally had hooked up with a propane system to blow flames
03:12 out, but we realized that that was dangerous and stupid and a lot of people almost got
03:18 hurt so we disconnected that.
03:20 Normally we can't get over about 30 miles an hour with it because all the people around
03:24 it.
03:25 It's kind of hard to go fast when you're being crowded in, but if you wanted it to, it could
03:27 definitely move because it's got a good engine in it.
03:30 How can you go wrong?
03:31 I mean, this is just one of the coolest cars that was ever even dreamed up.
03:35 So occasionally we get to take it out and drive it around and have some fun with it.
03:40 When I first saw the Tumbler, I thought it was just the coolest thing.
03:43 And I think it's awesome that it actually has a New York City Gotham tag on it.
03:47 It's really, really cool.
03:48 If people can look at that and go, "Oh, that's nice," but keep passing by, we probably didn't
03:53 do our job right.
03:54 If people have to stop what they're doing as they're driving down the road, yeah, we've
03:59 done something right.
04:12 The brothers aren't sure how much they spend building the Tumbler, but how much would they
04:17 be prepared to sell it for?
04:19 I really...
04:22 I personally wouldn't sell it.
04:25 To me, it's that cool and it took that much time and effort to build it.
04:29 So I mean, why would you get rid of it?
04:32 What, are you crazy?
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