Custom Car Creations: Brothers Build Incredible Replica Movie Cars

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TWO BROTHERS are building and driving custom cars straight out of the MOVIES. Marc and Shanon Parker have a street-legal Batman Tumbler, Optimus Prime and Ecto-1 parked inside their shop in Port Canaveral, Florida. The duo started their business four years ago, and already have an incredible fleet of cars straight out of movies like Batman, Transformers and Ghostbusters.

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00:01When someone says it can't be built, we've got to build it.

00:04At Parker Brothers Concepts in Florida, the only restriction is imagination.

00:09The first rule at Parker Brothers is if we're going to build it, it is going to be a driveable vehicle.

00:13Their client list includes celebrities and Hollywood movie studios.

00:21You only see this kind of stuff in movies. It's awesome.

00:24Mark and Shannon Parker design and build incredible concept cars,

00:28custom motorbikes and stunning drivable recreations of the most outlandish movie vehicles.

00:39If somebody comes to us and says,

00:41I want a car with some rims and a ground effects and a paint job,

00:44and we're like, that's boring.

00:46You know, we want to show people that you can do things that have never been done before

00:51and push the envelope a little bit and create things that are kind of iconic.

00:58Shannon's the designer. I mean, he comes up with these ideas.

01:01A 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,

01:10hey, let's build this. And I'll look at it and go, what were you thinking?

01:15He thinks if he can draw it on paper that I can build it out of metal.

01:17Unfortunately, you know, it's a little more difficult than that.

01:20Everything we build is drivable. So then I have to come up with the 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, you know,

01:33a lot of times when I draw it, it's too far out there and he has to kind of rein me back in a little bit.

01:38But it's that collaboration that makes the vehicles turn out so cool.

01:42As well as concept and custom builds, they also make replicas of famous movie vehicles, including Optimus Prime from Transformers,

01:51the Shredder from Battleship and Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters.

01:55But the most stunning is the Assault Tumbler from The Dark Knight Rises.

02:00We had to build every inch of this from scratch. The frame, the chassis, the body, the interior, the suspension, the wheels, the glass.

02:10I mean, pretty much all we could buy was a motor. And it was pretty tricky.

02:15Now, the whole chassis and body is a tubular chassis and it's all steel construction.

02:21Not roomy inside, but it's pretty comfortable actually, you know, and it drives out really well.

02:27We had to add a lot of little cameras. There's a lot of tiny little micro cams all over it.

02:32And there's seven or eight video screens on the inside because there are a lot of blind spots.

02:38Yeah, the gas mileage on this thing is not the greatest. You know, it does have a Corvette engine in it.

02:43Because of the shape of it, there's not enough room to put the motor in the front where it would normally go.

02:50So what we had to do was put the motor in backwards. So the motor's here and the transmission is actually inside the vehicle.

02:57And that runs into a gearbox that drops down and then the drive shaft comes back underneath the motor and back to the rear end.

03:06The turbine here, which we originally had hooked up with a propane system to blow flames out.

03:12But we realized that that was dangerous and stupid and a lot of people almost got hurt.

03:18So we disconnected that. Normally we can't get over about 30 miles an hour with it because all the people around it.

03:24It's kind of hard to go fast when you're being crowded in.

03:26But if you wanted it to, it could definitely move because it's got a good engine in it.

03:30How can you go wrong?

03:31This is just one of the coolest cars that was ever even dreamed up.

03:35So occasionally we get to take it out and drive it around and have some fun with it.

03:40When I first saw the tumbler, I thought it was just the coolest thing.

03:43And I think it's awesome that it actually has a New York City Gotham tag on it.

03:47It's really, really cool.

03:48If people can look at that and go, oh, that's nice, but keep passing by, we probably didn't do our job right.

03:54If people have to stop what they're doing as they're driving down the road, yeah, we've done something right.

04:05The brothers aren't sure how much they spend building the tumbler, but how much would they be prepared to sell it for?

04:19I really, I personally wouldn't sell it.

04:24Yeah, yeah.

04:25To me, it's that cool and it took that much time and effort to build it.

04:30So, I mean, why would you get rid of it? What, are you crazy?

04:35It reallybourg?

04:36Yeah.

04:37Yeah.

04:38Awesome.

04:39Um...

04:40To be sure, isn't it easy.

04:42If you are crazy.

04:45Just making a huge shit, for me doing the gnome.

04:47I stand for you.

04:48tai ferentary jet life names of us, or are you the dots?

04:51Yeah.

04:52I Walquat!

04:53I'm sorry.

04:54I waited younger than you are.

04:55I have to, somebody to sic, and see other males.

04:56I don't know.

04:57I have to do a lot of fun.

05:02I don't know.

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