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  • 00:02 MARC: when someone says they can't be built

  • we got to build it.

  • 00:05 COMM: At Parker Brothers concepts in Florida,

  • the restrictions are at imagination.

  • 00:09 SHANON: First rule is at Parker Brothers we

  • are going to build it and it is going to be a drivable vehicle.

  • 00:13 COMM: Their client list includes celebraties

  • and Hollywood movie studios.

  • 00:22 WOMAN: you only see these kind of stuff in

  • movies. Its awesome.

  • 00:24 COMM: Marc and Shanon Parker design and build

  • incredible concept cars, custom motor bikes and stunning drivable recreations of the most

  • outlandish movie vehicles.

  • 00:40 MARC: Somebody comes to us and says i want

  • a car with some rims, grade effects and some paint job and its boring you know we want

  • to show people that you can do things that have never been done before and push the envelope

  • a little bit and create things that are kind of iconic.

  • 00:59 MARC: Shanon is the designer, he comes up

  • with these ideas, a lot of his inspiration i think comes more form comic books and movies

  • and he will come up with these really outlandish ideas and then bring me a drawing and go "hey

  • lets build this" and I look at it and go "what were you thinking?" he thinks that if he can

  • draw it on paper that I can build it out of metal and unfortunately it is more difficult

  • than that everything we build is drivable so then I have to come up with a way of taking

  • his ideas and his inspiration and kind of turning it into something that is actually

  • functional.

  • 01:30 SHANON: Its really kind of the back and forth

  • I have to tweak it a little bit because you know a lot of times when I draw it, it is

  • too far out there and he has to kind of reign me back in a little bit but its that collaboration

  • that makes the vehicles turn out so cool.

  • 01:43 COMM: As well as concept and custom builds

  • they also make replicas of famous movie vehicles including Optamis Prime from Transformers,

  • the Shreader from Battleship and an ECTO 1 from Ghost Busters. But the most stunning

  • is the Assault Tumbler which is from the Dark Knight Rises.

  • 02:00 MARC: We had to build every inch of this from

  • scratch for the chassis, the body, the interior, the suspension, the wheels, the glass. I mean

  • pretty much all we could buy was a motor and it was pretty tricky now that the whole chassis

  • and body is a 2 wheeler chassis and its all built to construction, its not roomy inside

  • but it is pretty comfortable actually you know when it drives out really well, we had

  • to add a lot of little cameras, there are tiny little micro cameras all over it and

  • there is 7 or 8 video screens on the inside because there are a lot of blind spots. yeah

  • the gas miles things is not the greatest you know it does have a corvette engine in it.

  • But because of the shape of it there is not enough room to put the motor in the front

  • where it would normally go so what we had to do was put the motor in backwards so the

  • motor is here and the transmission is actually inside the vehicle and that runs into a gear

  • box that drops down and the drive shaft comes back underneath the motor and back to the

  • rear end.

  • 03:07 MARC: The Tumbler here with we originally

  • had hooked up um the propane system of flames out and we didn't realise that was dangerous

  • and stupid and a lot of people almost got hurt so we disconnected that, normally we

  • can't get over 30 miles and hour with it because all the people around it its kind of hard

  • to go fast when you are being crowded in but if you wanted it to it could definitely move

  • because its got a good engine in it. How can you go wrong? this is just one of the coolest

  • cars that was ever dreamed off so occasionally we get to take it out and drive it around

  • and have some fun with it.

  • 03:40 WOMAN: When I first saw the Tumbler I thought

  • it was just the coolest thing its awesome that it actually has a New York City Gotham

  • tag on it it is really, really cool.

  • 03:49 MARC: If people can look at that and go oh

  • that is nice and keep passing by we probably didn't do our job right if people have to

  • stop what they are doing as they are driving out in the road yeah we have done something

  • right.

  • 04:11 COMM: The brothers aren't sure how much they

  • spent building the Tumbler but how much would they be prepared to sell it for?

  • 04:19 MARC: I really.

  • 04:22 SHANON: I personally wouldn't sell it to me

  • its that cool and it took that much time and effort to build it so I mean why would you

  • get rid of it are you crazy?

00:02 MARC: when someone says they can't be built

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