00:000001- When someone says it can't be built, we got to build it.
00:040002- At Parker Brothers Concepts in Florida, the only restriction is imagination.
00:080003- First rule at Parker Brothers is if we're going to build it, it is going to be
00:12a drivable vehicle.
00:130004- Their client list includes celebrities and Hollywood movie studios.
00:170005- I only see this kind of stuff in movies. It's awesome.
00:230006- Mark and Shannon Parker design and build incredible concept cars, custom motor bikes,
00:29bikes and stunning drivable recreations of the most outlandish movie vehicles.
00:40Somebody comes to us and says, I want a car with some rims and a ground effects and a
00:44paint job.
00:45And 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.
00:56Shannon'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.
01:12And 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, you know, it's a little more difficult than that.
01:21Everything we build is drivable, so then I have to come up with the way of taking his
01:25idea and his inspiration and kind of turning it into something that's actually functional.
01:29It's really kind of a back and forth.
01:31We have to tweak it a little bit because, you know, a lot of times when I draw it, it's
01:35too far out there, and he has to kind of rein me back in a little bit, but it's that collaboration
01:40that 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.
01:56But the most stunning is the Assault Tumbler from The Dark Knight Rises.
02:01We had to build every inch of this from scratch.
02:03The frame, the chassis, the body, the interior, the suspension, the wheels, the glass.
02:10I mean, pretty much all we could buy was a motor, and it was pretty tricky.
02:15Now, the whole chassis and body is a tubular chassis, and it's all steel construction.
02:21It's a little bit roomy inside, but it's pretty comfortable, actually, you know, and
02:26it drives out really well.
02:27We had to add a lot of little cameras.
02:29There's a lot of tiny little micro-cams all over it, and there's seven or eight video
02:34screens on the inside because there are a lot of blind spots.
02:38Yeah, the gas mileage on this thing is not the greatest.
02:41You know, 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.
02:50So what we had to do was put the motor in backwards.
02:53So the motor's 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.
03:19Normally we can't get over about 30 miles an hour with it because all the people around
03:24it.
03:25It's kind of hard to go fast when you're being crowded in, but if you wanted it to, it could
03:27definitely 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
03:37we get 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.
03:47It'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.
03:55If people have to stop what they're doing as they're driving down the road, yeah, we've
03:59done something right.
04:12The brothers aren't sure how much they spend building the Tumbler, but how much would they
04:17be prepared to sell it for?
04:19I 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 why would
04:31you get rid of it?
04:32What, are you crazy?
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