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00:03But Parker Brothers' concepts in Florida, the aid restriction is imagination.
00:10Their client list includes celebrities and Hollywood movie studios.
00:24Mark and Shannon Parker design and build incredible concept cars, custom motorbikes and stunning
00:31drivable recreations of the most outlandish movie vehicles.
00:36007 007 Somebody comes to us and says I want a car
00:42with some rims and a ground effects and a paint job and we're like that's boring.
00:46You know we want to show people that you can do things that have never been done before
00:51and push the envelope a little bit and create things that are kind of iconic.
00:59Shannon's the designer, I mean he comes up with these ideas.
01:01A lot of his inspiration I think comes more from comic books and movies and he'll come
01:06up with these just really outlandish ideas and then bring me a drawing and go hey let's
01:11build this and I'll look at it and go what were you thinking?
01:15He thinks if he can draw it on paper that I can build it out of metal.
01:18Unfortunately it's a little more difficult than that, everything we build is drivable
01:22so then I have to come up with a way of taking his idea and his inspiration and kind of turning
01:27it into something that's actually functional.
01:29It's really kind of a back and forth, we have to tweak it a little bit because a lot of
01:33times when I draw it, it's too far out there and he has to kind of rein me back in a little
01:38bit but it's that collaboration that makes the vehicles turn out so cool.
01:43As well as concept and custom builds, they also make replicas of famous movie vehicles
01:48including Optimus Prime from Transformers, the Shredder from Battleship and Ecto-1 from
01:54Ghostbusters.
01:55But the most stunning is the Assault Tumbler from The Dark Knight Rises.
02:01We had to build every inch of this from scratch, the frame, the chassis, the body, the interior,
02:07the suspension, the wheels, the glass, I mean pretty much all we could buy was a motor
02:13and it was pretty tricky.
02:15Now the whole chassis and body is a tubular chassis and it's all steel construction, not
02:21roomy inside but it's pretty comfortable actually, it drives out really well.
02:27We had to add a lot of little cameras, there's a lot of tiny little micro cams all over it
02:32and there's 7 or 8 video screens on the inside because there are a lot of blind spots.
02:38The gas mileage on this thing is not the greatest, it does have a Corvette engine in it.
02:44Because of the shape of it, there's not enough room to put the motor in the front where it
02:48would normally go so what we had to do was put the motor in backwards.
02:53So the motors here and the transmission is actually inside the vehicle and that runs
02:58into a gearbox that drops down and then the drive shaft comes back underneath the motor
03:04and back to the rear end.
03:06The turbine here, which we originally had hooked up with a propane system to blow flames
03:12out but we realized that that was dangerous and stupid and a lot of people almost got
03:18hurt so we disconnected that.
03:20Normally we can't get over about 30 miles an hour with it because all the people around
03:24it, it's kind of hard to go fast when you're being crowded in but if you wanted it to,
03:27you could definitely move because it's got a good engine in it.
03:30How can you go wrong?
03:32This is just one of the coolest cars that was ever even dreamed up so occasionally we
03:37get to take it out and drive it around and have some fun with it.
03:40When I first saw the Tumbler, I thought it was just the coolest thing and I think it's
03:43awesome that it actually has a New York City Gotham tag on it, it's really, really cool.
03:48If people can look at that and go, oh that's nice but keep passing by, we probably didn't
03:54do our job right.
03:55When people have to stop what they're doing as they're driving down the road, yeah, we've
04:00done something right.
04:13The brothers aren't sure how much they spend building the Tumbler but how much would they
04:17be prepared to sell it for?
04:20I really, I personally wouldn't sell it.
04:25To me, it's that cool and it took that much time and effort to build it so, I mean, why
04:31would you get rid of it?
04:32What, are you crazy?
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