00:01You have a boat, you have a car, and you have a convertible. So it's all three in one.
00:13Mark Ray from Atlanta, Georgia always loved boats. But it was only after his wife set
00:19him a challenge that he decided to create a boat car.
00:22The boat car started about three years ago. My wife had breast cancer and after her surgery
00:27I was taking care of her. And she came in the bedroom and said to me, why don't you build
00:31a boat car? And I had no idea, what's a boat car? So I looked at it, I researched it
00:36and
00:36she said, I bet you can't do it. And in a year I built it and I won the bet.
00:41And I kept the
00:41boat car.
00:44Mark was given a recovered 18.5 Sea Ray Bowrider boat for free, which was stripped of its motor,
00:51out drive and interior. He bought a GMC Jimmy, which was cut apart and the boat was installed
00:57on top. It was then down to Mark to add the finishing touches and he couldn't resist the
01:02nautical theme.
01:04Mark Ray- People ask me frequently, how do you get in my boat
01:06car? I go, you get in the back of the ladder. They go, but where's the door? I go, this
01:11is a boat, it's not a car. So we've been asked that so many times I ended up putting on
01:16door
01:16handles. These are fake door handles. You climb up the ladder and you're in. And I even have
01:23a handy dandy propeller. Doesn't do much, but it sure does look good. Fishing rod holders.
01:30And of course, Scully, he looks out for everybody getting in and out of the boat.
01:34The boat car is fitted with the Jimmy's original engine to give it some oomph from the open road.
01:40Mark Ray- This is the expanded metal where air comes through to keep the engine cool into
01:45the radiator. This is my engine area and I have it covered with diamond plate. The boat car
01:50does move along pretty fast. It's got a 4.3 V6. Won't burn rubber, but it does run good.
01:56To make it street legal, the vehicle had to be fitted with head and tail lights, indicators,
02:01a horn, seat belts and mirrors.
02:04Mark Ray- Practicality, it's fun, but it's not real practical.
02:08Mark's creation has won trophies and plaques at car shows. But it also stops traffic when
02:13he takes it for a spin on the school run.
02:16Mark Ray- People are crazy. I'm driving and all of a sudden I hear the car
02:20cars honking and people waving. My daughter and I have seen people videotape and run right
02:25off into the shoulder. It always puts a smile on someone's face.
02:28Mark Ray- It's a very novel idea. I'd have to take it for a spin to see how it
02:32really floats.
02:32Mark Ray- It's awesome. It's an eye-catcher for sure.
02:35Mark Ray- What'd you drive it?
02:36Mark Ray- Oh, in a heartbeat.
02:37Mark Ray- And it also floats Mark's family's boat.
02:40Mark Ray- It's brought a lot of comic relief to my mom's cancer treatments and everything.
02:44Mark Ray- People look at the boat car and go crazy and she laughs about it.
02:51Mark Ray- Mark's spent $10,000 and one year building the boat car. He's been offered $30,000
02:56for it, but he's determined to keep his pride and joy in the family.
03:00Mark Ray- I'm not trading it and I'm not selling it. I had one guy offer me jewellery and
03:05I told
03:05him, you keep your jewellery. I'm keeping the boat car. It's going to be passed down to the kids.
03:09Mark Ray- I'm not trade a boat car. It's going to be passed down to the kids.
03:09Mark Ray- You competes without the kids of school, but this means a лид-서óa programme is
03:10Mark Ray- The kids are watching it and we're going to ride for a wild ride
03:10Mark Ray- Lily vs Carmen.
03:11Mark Ray- You took super common magic analogy and something and there's going to do
03:12Mark Ray- We actually have the ability to explain a delivery, because it's the most welcome Chong
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