00:00People look in the rearview mirror and they see an airplane and they start panicking.
00:12The plane car is the brainchild of 56 year old Atlanta resident Mark Ray, who has previously built a roadworthy
00:20boat car.
00:20My 17 year old daughter Brianna encouraged me to build something else because she said that I was kind of
00:26getting bored with the boat car.
00:28Which is still a very unusual vehicle, but I came up with the idea of building a plane car.
00:34The vehicle was constructed from a Chevrolet Tracker and a 2003 Cirrus SR22.
00:40The Cirrus was perfect for me. It was just perfect.
00:43And the aircraft, luckily enough, has a fiberglass body which makes it a little bit lighter weight,
00:50but much more durable than your average aluminum aircraft.
01:00Despite having the vision for his project, Mark was happy to let others do the hard work.
01:05I'm not the type of individual that gets their hands real dirty and involved in ripping metal and cutting things
01:13and whatever.
01:13I'd rather come up with the idea, write the check and then have the vehicle when it's done.
01:19I went to a body shop and he took the entire body off.
01:24It was a coming collision where I live.
01:26Then I went to another shop, FlexFab, also in my area.
01:30They fabricated the two together to make it one.
01:33The next challenge was to make his creation road legal.
01:36I put on side view mirrors, tail lights, it has headlights, has a rear view mirror, it's got a tag
01:45light, it's got seat belts and yes, it's past emissions.
01:48The tail used to come out another, I'd say 15 or 20 inches.
01:53I had to cut that back so that the vehicle would be able to be driven down the street without
01:58ripping into other cars along the road.
02:01And Mark carried out the finishing touches to the plane car himself.
02:05When I did get the vehicle finished, I painted it myself and I striped it and decalled it myself.
02:11This vehicle took me about five months to put together. It cost me a little under $10,000.
02:16Despite the vehicle's unique look, it still acts as a family run around.
02:21I take my son to school in it and the school goes crazy.
02:25All the people just go nuts when I show up with that airplane.
02:28And I have a good time. We go out for dinner in it.
02:31We come outside and there's a full crowd of people.
02:34And I have to answer a ton of questions about the plane but that's, you know, that's part of the
02:39game.
02:39You have an unusual vehicle, you've got to answer a lot of questions.
02:42But I really do like it a lot and I'm going to enjoy it and pass this one down to
02:46probably my son.
02:48But Mark could be persuaded to part with his unusual mode of transport.
02:52I've had a few people ask if it was for sale.
02:54I told him not right now but if the right price was offered to me, I'd sell it.
03:00Maybe. Maybe.
03:02And money talks.
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