Halo Fan Builds A Real Life Warthog | Ridiculous Rides
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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00:00 Most people when they see this thing they're just absolutely floored with how
00:04 realistic it looks.
00:07 [Music]
00:19 [Birds chirping]
00:25 [Engine starting]
00:28 [Engine revving]
00:45 I'm the owner and builder of the replica of the Warthog from Halo.
00:51 I've built this thing from the ground up completely solo on my own.
00:56 Five and a half years of labor, thousands of man hours,
01:00 thousands of dollars and the few times I've nearly killed myself in the process of building it.
01:07 I'm a big Halo fan. I've been ever since I first played it.
01:11 This is back in like 2003. I'm trying to build this thing as close to the actual Warthogs possible.
01:19 [Music]
01:39 So the Warthog started off as the stripped down 1984 Chevy K10.
01:44 Just an old school 80's pickup truck.
01:47 The engine is based off a 1984 Chevy 350.
01:52 But I've rebuilt it.
01:54 It's really exhilarating because it's like one of the most badass things you can drive.
02:00 [Music]
02:13 If I had to put a top speed on this thing, I'd say 85 miles an hour, redlining it.
02:19 [Music]
02:24 Yeah, I was surprised when I first decided to do it and bought the truck and totally stripped it down
02:30 to just about nothing and started over with it.
02:33 I found it interesting.
02:35 I didn't know if it would ever run, but it sure did.
02:40 So, structurally, first I started with the roll cage.
02:45 Built the roll cage, got it all centered and everything where it needed to be.
02:48 And then I built everything else with structural angle iron.
02:54 The hood actually opens up like a snowmobile hood.
02:58 Which reveals a 350 Chevy that I built.
03:03 Carbureted with a quick fuel carburetor.
03:05 Long tube headers, Vortec heads.
03:08 Built a completely hydraulic steering setup.
03:11 So that the power steering pump feeds a hydraulic orbital.
03:16 Which powers these hydraulic cylinders on the front.
03:20 I had to put custom made tusks on the front.
03:23 Those things you can't just buy in a store.
03:25 So I had to build those things out of metal from scratch.
03:27 Took me about two weeks of welding, grinding and fabricating.
03:31 But I came out with two fully realistic tusks that I welded to the front to give it that authentic warthog look.
03:39 You have to put blinkers on it, so that's what these little guys are.
03:42 LED blinkers.
03:45 And these are projection high beams.
03:47 Because you have to have high beams for it to be street legal.
03:50 Your normal headlights.
03:52 The off-road lights.
03:53 I used a 3D printer to construct some of the tricky bits.
03:56 Like the rear view camera cover.
04:00 Different odds and ends like the covers for the front headlights.
04:05 There's different things that are just hard to craft.
04:08 So a 3D printer is actually the best way to go about it.
04:11 So a lot of measurements went into every little angle, every piece of it.
04:16 To make everything fit together.
04:18 I'd say the hardest part about building this thing is probably the things I didn't expect.
04:24 I've had to rebuild the engine three different times for different reasons.
04:27 The dashboard is completely functional.
04:34 There's a speedometer.
04:35 There's a fuel gauge.
04:37 There's button switches for all your lights and airbags.
04:41 The heater.
04:42 And these seats are actually racing seats.
04:44 Bought off of eBay.
04:46 They're fitted with a four-point safety harness to keep you strapped in.
04:50 Thus far, I've spent at least $10,000, $11,000 in material costs.
04:56 As for the value, it's hard to say how much it would actually sell for.
05:01 But ballpark figure.
05:03 If it sold to a diehard ALO fan, I could probably get upwards of $100,000, I think.
05:08 Everywhere I seem to drive this thing, it turns heads.
05:17 Pulling to a gas station, people are stopping to take pictures, asking questions about it.
05:21 People may not recognize that it's a Warthog, but they just think it looks cool, so they want to take pictures.
05:28 We were just pulling off the highway to use the gas station, and I saw it and I knew exactly what it was.
05:33 I told my wife, and I was like, "Oh, there's a Warthog over there. We've got to go check it out."
05:37 I grew up playing the first ALO.
05:39 When I had it up and running, and for the first time ever, I was able to actually take it out on the road, take it for a test drive.
05:48 And just the feeling of driving this unique, beastly-looking machine down the road that looks like nothing else,
05:55 just puts a warm, fuzzy feeling in your heart.
05:58 [Music]