00:00 00;01;10;12 00;01;12;12 When someone says it can't be built, we've got to build it.
00:04 00;01;12;12 00;01;15;12 At Parker Brothers Concepts in Florida, the only restriction
00:07 is imagination.
00:08 00;01;15;12 00;01;18;12 First rule at Parker Brothers is if we're going to build it, it
00:11 is going to be a drivable vehicle.
00:13 00;01;18;12 00;01;21;12 Their client list includes celebrities and Hollywood movie studios.
00:17 00;01;21;12 00;01;29;12 You only see this kind of stuff in movies. It's awesome.
00:24 00;01;29;12 00;01;33;12 Mark and Shannon Parker design and build incredible concept cars,
00:29 custom motorbikes, and stunning drivable recreations of the most outlandish movie vehicles.
00:36 00;01;33;12 00;01;44;12 Somebody comes to us and says, "I want a car with some rims and
00:43 a ground effects and a paint job." And we're like, "That's boring."
00:45 00;01;44;12 00;01;50;12 You know, we want to show people that you can do things that have
00:49 never been done before and push the envelope a little bit and create things that are kind
00:54 of iconic.
00:55 00;01;50;12 00;02;00;12 Shannon's the designer. I mean, he comes up with these ideas. A lot
01:02 of his inspiration, I think, comes more from comic books and movies.
01:05 00;02;00;12 00;02;04;12 And he'll come up with these just really outlandish ideas and then
01:09 bring me a drawing and go, "Hey, let's build this." And I'll look at it and go, "What were
01:14 you thinking?"
01:15 00;02;04;12 00;02;08;12 He thinks if he can draw it on paper that I can build it out of
01:17 metal. Unfortunately, you know, it's a little more difficult than that.
01:20 00;02;08;12 00;02;11;12 Everything we build is drivable. So then I have to come up with
01:23 the way of taking his idea and his inspiration and kind of turning it into something that's
01:28 actually functional.
01:29 00;02;11;12 00;02;17;12 It's really kind of a back and forth. We have to tweak it a little
01:32 bit because, you know, a lot of times when I draw it, it's too far out there and he has
01:36 to kind of rein me back in a little bit.
01:38 00;02;17;12 00;02;21;12 But it's that collaboration that makes the vehicles turn out so cool.
01:42 00;02;21;12 00;02;26;12 As well as concept and custom builds, they also make replicas
01:47 of famous movie vehicles, including Optimus Prime from Transformers, the Shredder from
01:52 Battleship and Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters.
01:55 00;02;26;12 00;02;30;12 But the most stunning is the Assault Tumbler from The Dark Knight
01:59 Rises.
02:00 00;02;30;12 00;02;37;12 We had to build every inch of this from scratch, the frame, the
02:04 chassis, the body, the interior, the suspension, the wheels, the glass. I mean, pretty much
02:11 all we could buy was a motor and it was pretty tricky.
02:15 00;02;37;12 00;02;45;12 Now, the whole chassis and body is a tubular chassis and it's all
02:19 steel construction. Not roomy inside, but it's pretty comfortable actually, you know,
02:25 and it drives out really well.
02:27 00;02;45;12 00;02;50;12 We had to add a lot of little cameras. There's a lot of tiny little
02:30 micro cams all over it and there's seven or eight video screens on the inside because
02:36 there are a lot of blind spots.
02:38 00;02;50;12 00;03;00;00 Yeah, the gas mileage on this thing is not the greatest. You know,
02:42 it does have a Corvette engine in it.
02:43 00;03;00;00 00;03;04;00 Because of the shape of it, there's not enough room to put the
02:47 motor in the front where it would normally go. So what we had to do was put the motor
02:52 in backwards. 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 00;03;04;00 00;03;10;00 The turbine here, which we originally had hooked up with a propane
03:11 system to blow flames out, but we realized that that was dangerous and stupid and a lot
03:17 of people almost got hurt. So we disconnected that. Normally we can't get over about 30
03:21 miles an hour with it because all the people around it. It's kind of hard to go fast when
03:25 you're being crowded in, but if you wanted it to, it could definitely move because it's
03:29 got a good engine in it.
03:30 00;03;10;00 00;03;22;00 How can you go wrong? This is just one of the coolest cars that
03:33 was ever even dreamed up. So occasionally we get to take it out and drive it around
03:38 and have some fun with it.
03:39 00;03;22;00 00;03;29;00 When I first saw the tumbler, I thought it was just the coolest
03:43 thing and I think it's awesome that it actually has a New York City Gotham tag on it. It's
03:47 really, really cool.
03:48 00;03;29;00 00;03;36;00 If people can look at that and go, oh, that's nice, but keep
03:51 passing by, we probably didn't do our job right. If people have to stop what they're
03:56 doing as they're driving down the road, yeah, we've done something right.
04:00 00;03;36;00 00;03;50;00 The brothers aren't sure how much they spent building the tumbler,
04:16 but how much would they be prepared to sell it for?
04:19 00;03;50;00 00;04;00;00 I really, I personally wouldn't sell it. To me, it's that cool and
04:27 it took that much time and effort to build it, so I mean, why would you get rid of it?
04:32 What, are you crazy?
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