00:00 00;01;10;12 00;01;12;12 You have a boat, you have a car and you have a convertible. So
00:07 it's all three in one.
00:12 00;01;12;12 00;01;17;12 Mark Ray from Atlanta, Georgia always loved boats, but it was only
00:18 after his wife set him a challenge that he decided to create a boat car.
00:22 00;01;17;12 00;01;22;12 The boat car started about three years ago. My wife had breast
00:26 cancer and after her surgery I was taking care of her and she came in the bedroom and
00:30 said to me, "Why don't you build a boat car?" And I had no idea what's a boat car.
00:34 00;01;22;12 00;01;29;12 So I looked at it, I researched it and she said, "I bet you can't
00:38 do it." And in a year I built it and I won the bet and I kept the boat car.
00:43 00;01;29;12 00;01;39;12 Mark was given a recovered 18.5C Ray Bowrider boat for free, which was
00:50 stripped of its motor, out drive and interior.
00:52 00;01;39;12 00;01;45;12 He bought a GMC Jimmy, which was cut apart and the boat was installed
00:57 on top. It was then down to Mark to add the finishing touches and he couldn't resist
01:02 the nautical theme.
01:03 00;01;45;12 00;01;50;12 People ask me frequently, "How do you get in my boat car?" I go, "You
01:07 get in the back of the ladder." They go, "But where's the door?" I go, "This is a boat,
01:11 it's not a car."
01:12 00;01;50;12 00;02;00;12 So we've been asked that so many times I ended up putting on door
01:17 handles. These are fake door handles. You climb up the ladder and you're in. I even
01:23 have a handy dandy propeller. It doesn't do much but it sure does look good. Fishing rod
01:29 holders. And of course Scully, he looks out for everybody getting in and out of the boat.
01:35 00;02;00;12 00;02;05;12 The boat car is fitted with the Jimmy's original engine to give it
01:38 some oomph on the open road.
01:40 00;02;05;12 00;02;10;12 This is the expanded metal where air comes through to keep the
01:44 engine cool into the radiator. This is my engine area and I have it covered with diamond
01:49 plate. The boat car does move along pretty fast. It's got a 4.3 V6. Won't burn rubber
01:55 but it does run good.
01:56 00;02;10;12 00;02;20;22 To make it street legal, the vehicle had to be fitted with head and
02:00 tail lights, indicators, a horn, seat belts and mirrors.
02:04 00;02;20;22 00;02;27;22 Practicality, it's fun but it's not real practical.
02:08 00;02;27;22 00;02;31;22 Mark's creation has won trophies and plaques at car shows. But
02:12 it also stops traffic when he takes it for a spin on the school run.
02:16 00;02;31;22 00;02;36;22 People are crazy. I'm driving and all of a sudden I hear the cars
02:20 honking and people waving. My daughter and I have seen people videotape and run right
02:25 off into the shoulder. It always puts a smile on someone's face.
02:28 00;02;36;22 00;02;40;02 It's a very novel idea. I'd have to take it for a spin to see how
02:32 it really floats.
02:33 00;02;40;02 00;02;44;02 It's awesome. It's an eye catcher for sure.
02:35 00;02;44;02 00;02;46;02 What did you drive?
02:36 00;02;46;02 00;02;47;03 Oh, an heartbeat.
02:37 00;02;47;03 00;02;49;02 And it also floats Mark's family's boat.
02:40 00;02;49;03 00;02;51;02 It's brought a lot of comic relief to my mom's cancer treatments
02:44 and everything.
02:45 00;02;51;02 00;02;54;02 People look at the boat car and go crazy and she laughs about it.
02:51 00;02;54;02 00;03;00;02 Mark spent $10,000 and one year building the boat car. He's been
02:55 off the $30,000 for it, but he's determined to keep his pride and joy in the family.
03:00 00;03;00;02 00;03;05;02 I'm not trading it and I'm not selling it. I had one guy offer me
03:04 jewelry, and I told him, "If you keep your jewelry, I'm keeping the boat car." It's going
03:08 to be passed down to the kids.
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