00:00Most people when they see this thing, they're just absolutely floored with how realistic it looks.
00:46I'm the owner and builder of the replica of the Warthog from Halo.
00:54I've built this thing from the ground up completely solo on my own.
00:57Five and a half years of labor, thousands of man hours, thousands of dollars and the few
01:04times I've nearly killed myself in the process of building it.
01:08I'm a big Halo fan, I've been ever since I first played it, this was back in like 2003.
01:15I'm trying to build this thing as close to the actual Warthog as possible.
01:40So the Warthog started off as this stripped down 1984 Chevy K10.
01:45Just an old school 80s pickup truck.
01:47The engine is based off a 1984 Chevy 350, but I've rebuilt it.
01:56It's really exhilarating because it's like one of the most bad-ass things you can drive.
02:13If I had to put a top speed on this thing, I'd say 85 miles an hour, redlining it.
02:24Yeah, I was surprised when we first decided to do it and bought the truck and totally stripped
02:30it down to just about nothing and started over with it.
02:34I found it interesting.
02:36I didn't know if it would ever run, but it sure did.
02:43So structurally, first I started with the roll cage, built the roll cage, got it all
02:47centered and everything where it needed to be, and then I built everything else with structural
02:53angle iron.
02:55The hood actually opens up like a snowmobile hood, which reveals a 350 Chevy that I built,
03:04carbureted with a quick fuel carburetor, long tube headers, Vortec heads, built a completely
03:11hydraulic steering setup so that the power steering pump feeds a hydraulic orbital, which powers
03:18these hydraulic cylinders on the front.
03:21I had to put custom-made tusks on the front.
03:24Those things you can't just buy in a store, so I had to build those things out of metal from
03:27scratch.
03:28It took me about two weeks of welding, grinding, and fabricating, but I came out with two fully
03:35realistic tusks that I welded to the front to give it that authentic warthog look.
03:40You have to put blinkers on it, so that's what these little guys are, LED blinkers.
03:45And these are projection high beams, because you have to have high beams for it to be street
03:50legal.
03:50The normal headlights, the off-road lights.
03:54I used a 3D printer to construct some of the tricky bits, like the rear-view camera cover,
04:02different odds and ends, like the covers for the front headlights.
04:06There's different things that are just hard to craft, so a 3D printer is actually the best
04:11way to go about it.
04:11So a lot of measurements went into every little angle, every piece of it, to make everything
04:18fit together.
04:19I'd say the hardest part about building this thing is probably the things I didn't expect.
04:25I've had to rebuild the engine three different times for different reasons.
04:32The dashboard is completely functional.
04:34There's a speedometer, there's a fuel gauge, there's button switches for all your lights
04:39and airbags, the heater, and these seats are actually racing seats bought off of eBay.
04:48They're fitted with a four-point safety harness to keep you strapped in.
04:52Thus far, I've spent at least 10, 11 grand in material costs.
04:58As for the value, it's hard to say how much it would actually sell for, but ballpark figure.
05:03If it sold to a die-hard Alofan, I could probably get upwards of 100 grand, I think.
05:15Everywhere I seem to drive this thing, it turns heads.
05:18Pulling to a gas station, people are stopping to take pictures, asking questions about it.
05:22People may not recognize that it's a warthog, but they just think it looks cool so they want
05:26to take pictures.
05:28We were just pulling off the highway to use the gas station and I saw it and I knew exactly
05:33what it was.
05:34I told my wife, I was like, oh, there's a warthog over there, we've got to go check it
05:37out.
05:38I grew up playing the first Halo.
05:42When I had it up and running, and for the first time ever, I was able to actually take
05:47it out on the road, take it for a test drive, and just the feeling of driving this unique,
05:52you know, beastly looking machine down the road that looks like nothing else, just puts
05:56a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart.
06:02It's a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart.
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