00:00I'm the only person that can say I own a privately owned amphibious combat vehicle.
00:24The 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, let's essentially buy an armored vehicle.
00:45And I said, well, let's do it.
00:47I think it took them a close to three years in construction.
01:03Basic 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, and that has a lot of other huge advantages,
01:20such as reducing its infrared signature, allowing for more cooling from the air conditioning system to cool it.
01:26It has the blinkers, it has the headlights, it has high beams, it has extra fog lights.
01:32These things up here right now are bullet deflectors, so if you're taking a high-impact round, it's going to shred the round as it hits.
01:40We have eight massive tires, and we have the ability to engage a diff lock, which 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, and then we have additional seating of four, or maybe possibly six, in the front.
02:07If one's tired, whatever, you change lanes and go to another country, and you drive on the other side of the road,
02:13you can actually literally just move everything over, and 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.
02:39It's front end was designed to go through one-foot-thick concrete walls and blast right through them.
02:47Today we have present a Chevy 3500 cargo van, and we're definitely smashing through it.
02:56Literally, you can drive over telephone poles, and you just don't, you don't even spill your cup of coffee.
03:16This thing is amphibious.
03:40It floats.
03:42We have pumps here.
03:44We have pumps in the APU compartment, pumps in the center, and pumps in the engine compartment, and pumps in the front.
03:53We can literally just drive it right in.
03:56We don't have to do any prep.
03:59You need about 12 feet of water under it.
04:02In 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, they're always pretty much fascinated by this.
04:32We enjoy taking the vehicle to car shows and events, let the public inside it.
04:37I 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, but I've never seen one like this riding.
04:51It's pretty awesome.
04:52If I had a chance to own a truck like this, I definitely would bring it to a lot of parties, I'll tell you that.
04:58I'd let my wife drive it to work. I wouldn't have to worry about getting in an accident, that's for sure.
05:05I have been the one who has taken charge of getting the vehicles into movies, films, doing special events.
05:13Some of the movies the vehicle's been in have been Red Dawn.
05:17It was recently in a Fox movie, which I'm not yet allowed to disclose.
05:22I don't like to discuss what we paid for it, because there was other things that we had to do to the vehicle to ensure safety.
05:30As far as my friends, family, they thought it was a crazy purchase.
05:36I would love to acquire more of the vehicles, but I'd like to also see the vehicles actually be rented more in the movie industry.
05:43We've all agreed we will never sell the vehicle.
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