Halo Fan Builds A Real Life Warthog

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ONE man has spent five years, and thousands of dollars, single-handedly recreating the iconic Warthog truck from the Halo video games. Bryant Havercamp, a phone technician from Michigan, built the incredibly-detailed replica completely by himself, using traditional fabrication methods, a 3D printer, and the frame of a 1984 Chevy K10. The fully street-legal recreation is based on a 3D model extracted directly from the Halo game, allowing Bryant to match the truck’s measurements to the in-game version. Bryant told Barcroft Media: “Most people when they see this thing are just absolutely floored with how realistic it looks."

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00:00Most people when they see this thing, they're just absolutely floored with how realistic it looks.

00:30I'm the owner and builder of the replica of the Warthog from Halo.

00:54I've built this thing from the ground up completely solo on my own.

00:57Five and a half years of labor, thousands of man hours, thousands of dollars and the few

01:04times I've nearly killed myself in the process of building it.

01:09I'm a big Halo fan, I've been ever since I first played it, this was back in like 2003.

01:15I'm trying to build this thing as close to the actual Warthog as possible.

01:27So, the Warthog started off as this stripped down 1984 Chevy K10.

01:45Just an old school 80s pickup truck.

01:48The engine is based off a 1984 Chevy 350, but I've rebuilt it.

01:55It's really exhilarating because it's like one of the most bad-ass things you can drive.

02:00If I had to put a top speed on this thing, I'd say 85 miles an hour, redlining it.

02:19Yeah, I was surprised when we first decided to do it and bought the truck and totally stripped

02:30it down to just about nothing and started over with it.

02:34I found it interesting.

02:35I didn't know if it would ever run, but it sure did.

02:43So structurally, first I started with the roll cage, built the roll cage, got it all

02:47centered and everything where it needed to be, and then I built everything else with structural

02:53angle iron.

02:55The hood actually opens up like a snowmobile hood, which reveals a 350 Chevy that I built,

03:04started with a quick fuel carburetor, long tube headers, Vortec heads, built a completely

03:11hydraulic steering setup so that the power steering pump feeds a hydraulic orbital, which powers

03:18these hydraulic cylinders on the front.

03:21I had to put custom-made tusks on the front.

03:24Those things you can't just buy in a store, so I had to build those things out of metal from

03:27scratch and took me about two weeks of welding, grinding, and fabricating, but I came out

03:33with two fully realistic tusks that I welded to the front to give it that authentic warthog

03:39look.

03:40You have to put blinkers on it, so that's what these little guys are, LED blinkers.

03:46And these are projection high beams, because you have to have high beams for it to be street

03:50legal.

03:51Your normal headlights, the off-road lights.

03:54I used a 3D printer to construct some of the tricky bits, like the rear-view camera cover,

04:02different odds and ends, like the covers for the front headlights.

04:07There's different things that are just hard to craft, so a 3D printer is actually the best

04:11way to go about it.

04:12So a lot of measurements went into every little angle, every piece of it, to make everything

04:18fit together.

04:19I'd say the hardest part about building this thing is probably the things I didn't expect.

04:25I've had to rebuild the engine three different times for different reasons.

04:28The dashboard is completely functional.

04:34There's a speedometer, there's a fuel gauge, there's button switches for all your lights

04:39and airbags, the heater.

04:43These seats are actually racing seats, bought off of eBay.

04:48They're fitted with a four-point safety harness to keep you strapped in.

04:52Thus far, I've spent at least 10, 11 grand in material costs.

04:58As for the value, it's hard to say how much it would actually sell for, but ballpark figure.

05:04If it's sold to a die-hard ALO fan, I could probably get upwards of 100 grand, I think.

05:15Everywhere I always seem to drive this thing, it turns heads.

05:18Pulling to a gas station, people are stopping to take pictures, asking questions about it.

05:23People may not recognize that it's a warthog, but they just think it looks cool so they want

05:27to take pictures.

05:28We were just pulling off the highway to use the gas station, and I saw it, and I knew exactly

05:33what it was.

05:34I told my wife, I was like, oh, there's a warthog over there, we've got to go check

05:37it out.

05:38I grew up playing the first ALO.

05:42When I had it up and running, and for the first time ever, I was able to actually take

05:47it out on the road, take it for a test drive, and just the feeling of driving this unique,

05:52you know, beastly-looking machine down the road that looks like nothing else, just puts

05:56a warm, fuzzy feeling in your heart.

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