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00:04At Parker Brothers Concepts in Florida, the only restriction is imagination.
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00:09The first rule at Parker Brothers is that if we're going to build it, it is going to
00:12be a drivable vehicle.
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00:14Their client list includes celebrities and Hollywood movie studios.
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00:18You only see this kind of stuff in movies, it's awesome.
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00:24Shannon 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. You
00:46know we want to show people that you can do things that have never been done before and
00:51push 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. A lot of his inspiration
01:02I think comes more from comic books and movies and he'll come up with these just really outlandish
01:08ideas and then bring me a drawing and go hey let's build this and I'll look at it and go
01:14what were you thinking. He thinks if he can draw it on paper that I can build it out of
01:17metal. Unfortunately it's a little more difficult than that. Everything we build is drivable
01:22so then I have to come up with the way of taking his idea and his inspiration and kind
01:27of turning it 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.
01:56But 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. Now the whole chassis and body is a tubular chassis and it's all
02:19steel construction. It's not roomy inside but it's pretty comfortable actually. It drives
02:26out really well. We had to add a lot of little cameras. There's a lot of tiny little micro
02:30cams all over it and there's seven or eight video screens on the inside because there
02:37are a lot of blind spots. Yeah, the gas mileage on this thing is not the greatest. It does
02:42have a Corvette engine in it. Because of the shape of it, there's not enough room to put
02:46the motor in the front where it would normally go. So what we had to do was put the motor
02:52in backwards. So 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. The turbine here, which we originally had hooked up with a propane
03:11system to blow flames out but we realized that that was dangerous and stupid and a lot
03:17of people almost got hurt so we disconnected that. Normally we can't get over about thirty
03:21miles an hour with it because all the people around it. It's kind of hard to go fast when
03:25you're being crowded in but if you wanted it to, it could definitely move because it's
03:29got a good engine in it. How can you go wrong? This is just one of the coolest cars that
03:33was ever even dreamed up so occasionally we get to take it out and drive it around and
03:38have some fun with it. When I first saw the Tumbler, I thought it was just the coolest
03:43thing and I think it's awesome that it actually has a New York City Gotham tag on it. It's
03:47really, really cool. If people can look at that and go, oh that's nice but keep passing
03:52by, we probably didn't do our job right. If people have to stop what they're doing
03:57as they're driving down the road, yeah we've done 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? I really, I personally wouldn't sell it. To me it's that cool and
04:27it took that much time and effort to build it so I mean why would you get rid of it?
04:32What are you crazy?
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