00:01At Parker Brothers Concepts in Florida the only restriction is imagination.
00:04At Parker Brothers Concepts in Florida the only restriction is imagination.
00:09The first rule at Parker Brothers is, if we are going to build it, it has to be a drivable vehicle.
00:13Their client list includes celebrities and Hollywood movie studios.
00:21I only see this kind of stuff in movies, it's 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-"Somebody comes to us and says I want a car with some rims and a ground effects
00:43and a paint 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." 03. Mark-"Shannon's the designer. He comes
01:00up with these ideas. A lot of his inspiration I think comes more from comic books and movies
01:05and he'll come up with these just really outlandish ideas and then bring me a drawing and go hey
01:11let's build this and I'll look at it and go what were you thinking. He thinks if he can
01:16draw it on paper that I can build it out of metal. Unfortunately it's a little more difficult
01:20than that. Everything we build is drivable. So then I have to come up with a way of taking
01:24his idea and his inspiration and kind of turning it into something that's actually functional."
01:2904. Shannon-"It's really kind of a back and forth. We have to tweak it a little bit because
01:33you know a lot of times when I draw it, it's too far out there and he has to kind of rein
01:37me back in a little bit but it's that collaboration that makes the vehicles turn out so cool."
01:4205. Mark-"As 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. But the most stunning is the Assault Tumbler from The Dark Knight Rises.
02:0006. Shannon-"We had to build every inch of this from scratch. The frame, the chassis,
02:05the body, the interior, the suspension, the wheels, the glass. I mean pretty much all
02:12we could buy was a motor and it was pretty tricky. Now the whole chassis and body is
02:18a tubular chassis and it's all steel construction. Not roomy inside but it's pretty comfortable
02:24actually and it drives out really well. We had to add a lot of little cameras. There's
02:29a lot of tiny little micro cams all over it and there's seven or eight video screens on
02:34the inside because there are a lot of blind spots. Yeah the gas mileage on this thing
02:39is not the greatest. It does have a Corvette engine in it. Because of the shape of it,
02:45there's not enough room to put the motor in the front where it would normally go. So
02:50what we had to do was put the motor in backwards. So the motors here and the transmission is
02:55actually inside the vehicle and that runs into a gearbox that drops down and then the
03:00drive shaft comes back underneath the motor and back to the rear end. The turbine here
03:07which we originally had hooked up with a propane system to blow flames out but we realized
03:13that that was dangerous and stupid and a lot of people almost got hurt so we disconnected
03:19that. Normally we can't get over about 30 miles an hour with it because all the people
03:24around it. It's kind of hard to go fast when you're being crowded in but if you wanted
03:27it to it could definitely move because it's got a good engine in it. How 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. When I first saw the
03:41tumbler I thought it was just the coolest thing and I think it's awesome that it actually
03:44has a New York City Gotham tag on it. It's really really cool. If people can look at
03:50that and go oh that's nice but keep passing by, we probably didn't do our job right. If
03:54people have to stop what they're doing as they're driving down the road, yeah we've
04:00done 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? 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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