00:00I'm the only person that can say I own a privately owned amphibious combat vehicle.
00:25The building process on the vehicle started early on in 2000.
00:30The truck was manufactured by a company called General Purpose Vehicles.
00:33They made roughly about 11 vehicles, and they were designed or intended for the military.
00:39I had some friends of mine who came to me and said,
00:42let's essentially buy an armored vehicle.
00:45And I said, well, let's do it.
00:47Let's do it.
00:58I think it took them close to three years in construction.
01:04Based on specs, I believe the vehicle is about 25, 26 feet long.
01:07It's under 102 inches.
01:09It's actually 101.8 inches wide, which makes it street legal.
01:15The motor is located in the center of the vehicle,
01:18and that has a lot of other huge advantages,
01:20such as reducing its infrared signature,
01:23allowing for more cooling from the air conditioning system to cool it.
01:27It has the blinkers. It has the headlights.
01:29It has high beams. It has extra fog lights.
01:33These things up here right now are bullet deflectors.
01:36So if you're taking a high impact round, it's going to shred the round as it hits.
01:41We have eight massive tires, and we have the ability to engage a diff lock,
01:47which means all eight wheels are spinning at the same time.
01:50So when we go into mud, this thing drives like a tank.
01:55Inside the vehicle, you can see it's rather roomy, very spacious.
01:59There's seating for 10 in the rear,
02:02and then we have additional seating of four, maybe possibly six, in the front.
02:07If one's tired, whatever, you change lanes and go to another country,
02:11and you drive on the other side of the road,
02:13you can actually literally just move everything over,
02:17and now you're driving on the other side.
02:19You can see the armor thickness.
02:21It's pretty well protected, and it's actually a very fun vehicle to drive.
02:29You know, it has another nickname called the Unstoppable Force.
02:37It will push through almost anything.
02:39Its front end was designed to go through one foot thick concrete walls
02:44and blast right through them.
02:48Today we have present a Chevy 3500 cargo van,
02:54and we're definitely smashing through it.
03:06Literally, you can drive over telephone poles,
03:09and you don't even spill your cup of coffee.
03:37This thing is amphibious. It floats.
03:41We have pumps here. We have pumps in the APU compartment,
03:45pumps in the center, and pumps in the engine compartment,
03:49and pumps in the front.
03:52We can literally just drive it right in.
03:55We don't have to do any prep.
03:57You need about 12 feet of water under it.
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04:22In Hurricane Katrina, the vehicles actually were sent down there to assist.
04:27When it comes to driving it on the road and people's reactions,
04:31they're always pretty much fascinated by this.
04:33They enjoy taking the vehicle to car shows and events,
04:36let the public inside it.
04:38I mean, it's not every day they get to go inside something that's futuristic.
04:45Man, I've seen a lot of trucks on the road,
04:48but I've never seen one like this riding.
04:51It's pretty awesome.
04:53If I had a chance to own a truck like this,
04:56I definitely would bring it to a lot of parties, I'll tell you that.
04:59I'd let my wife drive it to work.
05:01I wouldn't worry about getting in an accident, that's for sure.
05:06I have been the one who has taken charge of getting the vehicles into movies,
05:10films, doing special events.
05:14Some of the movies the vehicle's been in have been Red Dawn.
05:18It was recently in a Fox movie, which I'm not yet allowed to disclose.
05:23I don't like to discuss what we paid for it,
05:25because there was other things that we had to do to the vehicle
05:29to ensure safety.
05:31As far as my friends, family, they thought it was a crazy purchase.
05:36I would love to acquire more of the vehicles,
05:38but I'd like to also see the vehicles actually be rented more in the movie industry.
05:45We've all agreed we will never sell the vehicle.
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