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I'm the only person that can say I own a
privately owned amphibious combat vehicle

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The building process on the vehicle started early on in 2000. The
truck was manufactured by a company called General Purpose Vehicles

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They made roughly about 11 vehicles, and they
were designed or intended for the military

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I had some friends of mine who came to me and
said, let's essentially buy an armored vehicle

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And I said, well, let's do it. I think it took
them close to three years in construction

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Basic specs, I believe the
vehicle is about 25, 26 feet long

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It's under 102 inches. It's actually 101.8
inches wide, which makes it street legal

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The motor is located in the center of the vehicle
and that has a lot of other huge advantages

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such as reducing its infrared signature allowing for more cooling from the air conditioning system to cool it It has the blinkers it has
the headlights it has high beams it has extra fog lights These things up here right now are bullet deflectors so if you taking a high impact

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round it's going to shred the round as it hits. We have eight massive
tires and we have the ability to engage a diff lock, which means

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all eight wheels are spinning at the same time. when we go into
mud this thing drives like a tank. Inside the vehicle you can

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see it's rather roomy, very spacious.
There's seating for 10 in the rear and

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then we have additional seating of four
or maybe possibly six in the front. If

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one's tired, whatever, you change lanes
and go to another country and you drive

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on the other side of the road, you can
actually literally just move everything

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everything over and now you're driving on the other side. You can see the
armor thickness, it's pretty well protected and it's actually a very fun

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vehicle to drive. You know, it has another
nickname called the unstoppable force

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It will push through almost anything. The front end was designed
to go through one foot thick concrete walls and blast right

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through them. Today we have present a Chevy 3500
cargo van and we definitely smashing through it

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Literally, you can drive over telephone poles and you
just don't, you don't even spill your cup of coffee

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This thing is amphibious

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It floats. We have pumps here. We have pumps in the APU compartment,
pumps in the center, and pumps in the engine compartment

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and pumps in the front. We can
literally just drive it right in

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We don't have to do any prep. You
need about 12 feet of water under it

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In Hurricane Katrina the vehicles actually were sent down there to assist When it comes
to driving it on the road and people reactions they always pretty much fascinated by this

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We enjoy taking the vehicle to car shows
and events, let the public inside it

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I mean, it's not every day they get to
go inside something that's futuristic

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Man, I've seen a lot of trucks on the road,
but I've never seen one like this riding

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It's pretty awesome. If I had a
chance to own a truck like this

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I definitely would bring it to a lot of parties,
I'll tell you that. I'd let my wife drive it to work

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I wouldn't have to worry about getting in an accident, that's for sure. I have
been the one who has taken charge of getting the vehicles into movies, films

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doing special events. Some of the movies
the vehicle's been in have been Red Dawn

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It was recently in a Fox movie,
which I'm not yet allowed to disclose

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I don't like to discuss what we paid for it because there was
other things that we had to do to the vehicle to ensure safety

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As far as my friends, family, they
thought it was a crazy purchase

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I would love to acquire more of the vehicles, but I'd like to also
see the vehicles actually be rented more in the movie industry

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We've all agreed we will never sell the vehicle