00:00ñ when someone says it canít be built, we gotta build it.
00:03At Parker Brothers Concepts in Florida, the only restriction is imagination.
00:09First rule at Parker Brothers is that if youíre going to build it, itís going to be a drivable vehicle.
00:13The client list includes celebrities and Hollywood movie studios.
00:21You only see this kind of stuff in movies. This is awesome.
00:2401. Mark and Shannon Parker design and build incredible concept cars, custom motorbikes
00:30and stunning drivable recreations of the most outlandish movie vehicles.
00:3602. Mark and Shannon Parker
00:40Somebody comes to us and says, I want a car with some rims and a ground effects and a
00:44paint job and we're like, that's boring. We want to show people that you can do things
00:49that have never been done before and push the envelope a little bit and create things
00:53that are kind of iconic.
00:5603. Mark and Shannon Parker
00:59Shannon's the designer. He comes up with these ideas. A lot of his inspiration I think comes
01:03more 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
01:13and go, what were you thinking? He thinks if he can draw it on paper that I can build
01:17it out of metal. Unfortunately, it's a little more difficult than that. Everything we build
01:21is drivable. So then I have to come up with a way of taking his idea and his inspiration
01:26and kind of 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,
01:49including Optimus Prime from Transformers, the Shredder from Battleship and Ecto-1 from
01:54Ghostbusters. But 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 and
02:13it was pretty tricky. Now the whole chassis and body is a tubular chassis and it's all
02:19steel construction. Not roomy inside but it's pretty comfortable actually. It drives out
02:26really 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 7 or 8 video screens on the inside because there are a
02:37lot of blind spots. The gas mileage on this thing is not the greatest. It does have a
02:42Corvette engine in it. Because of the shape of it, there's not enough room to put the
02:47motor 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 30
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 as
03:57they're driving down the road, yeah we've done something right.
04:08The 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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