I'm the only person that can say I own a privately owned amphibious combat vehicle
The building process on the vehicle started early on in 2000. The truck was manufactured by a company called General Purpose Vehicles
They made roughly about 11 vehicles, and they were designed or intended for the military
I had some friends of mine who came to me and said, let's essentially buy an armored vehicle
And I said, well, let's do it. I think it took them close to three years in construction
Basic specs, I believe the vehicle is about 25, 26 feet long
It's under 102 inches. It's actually 101.8 inches wide, which makes it street legal
The motor is located in the center of the vehicle and that has a lot of other huge advantages
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
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
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
see it's rather roomy, very spacious. There's seating for 10 in the rear and
then we have additional seating of four or maybe possibly six in the front. If
one's tired, whatever, you change lanes and go to another country and you drive
on the other side of the road, you can actually literally just move everything
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
vehicle to drive. You know, it has another nickname called the unstoppable force
It will push through almost anything. The front end was designed to go through one foot thick concrete walls and blast right
through them. Today we have present a Chevy 3500 cargo van and we definitely smashing through it
Literally, you can drive over telephone poles and you just don't, you don't even spill your cup of coffee
This thing is amphibious
It floats. We have pumps here. We have pumps in the APU compartment, pumps in the center, and pumps in the engine compartment
and pumps in the front. We can literally just drive it right in
We don't have to do any prep. You need about 12 feet of water under it
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
We enjoy taking the vehicle to car shows and events, let the public inside it
I mean, it's not every day they get to go inside something that's futuristic
Man, I've seen a lot of trucks on the road, but I've never seen one like this riding
It's pretty awesome. If I had a chance to own a truck like this
I definitely would bring it to a lot of parties, I'll tell you that. I'd let my wife drive it to work
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
doing special events. Some of the movies the vehicle's been in have been Red Dawn
It was recently in a Fox movie, which I'm not yet allowed to disclose
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
As far as my friends, family, they thought it was a crazy purchase
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
We've all agreed we will never sell the vehicle