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Most people when they see this thing they're just absolutely floored with how realistic
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it looks. I'm the owner and builder of the replica of the Warthog from Halo
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I've built this thing from the ground up completely solo on my own. five and a half years of labor, thousands of man hours
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thousands of dollars, and the few times I've nearly killed myself in the process of building it
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I'm a big Halo fan. I've been ever since I first played it. This was back in like 2003
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I'm trying to build this thing as close to the actual Warthogs possible
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Thank you So the Warthog started off as the stripped down 1984 Chevy K10
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Just an old school 80s pickup truck. The engine is based off a 1984 Chevy 350, but I've rebuilt it
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It's really exhilarating because it's like one of the most badass things you can drive
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If I had to put a top speed on this thing, I'd say 85 miles an hour, redlining it
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Yeah, I was surprised when we first decided to do it and bought the truck and totally stripped
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it down to just about nothing and started over with it. I found it interesting
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I didn't know if it'd ever run, but it sure did. So, structurally, first I started with the roll cage. Built the roll cage, got it all centered
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and everything where it needed to be, and then I built everything else with structural angle iron
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The hood actually opens up like a snowmobile hood which reveals a 350 Chevy that I built carbureted with a quick fuel carburetor long tube headers Vortec heads built a completely hydraulic
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steering setup so that the power steering pump feeds a hydraulic orbital, which powers
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these hydraulic cylinders on the front. I had to put custom-made tusks on the front
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Those things you can't just buy in a store, so I had to build those things out of metal from scratch
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It took me about two weeks of welding, grinding, and fabricating, but I came out with two fully realistic tusks that I welded to the front
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to give it that authentic warthog look. You have to put blinkers on it, so that's what these little guys are, LED blinkers
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And these are projection high beams, because you have to have high beams for it to be street legal
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your normal headlights, the off-road lights. I used a 3D printer to construct some of the tricky bits
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like the rear view camera cover, different odds and ends like the covers for the front headlights
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There's different things that are just hard to craft. So a 3D printer is actually the best way to go about it
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So a lot of measurements went into every little angle, every piece of it to make everything fit together
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I'd say the hardest part about building this thing is probably the things I didn't expect
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I had to rebuild the engine three different times for different reasons The dashboard is completely functional There a speedometer there a fuel gauge there button switches for all your lights
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and airbags, the heater. And these seats are actually racing seats bought off of eBay
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They're fitted with a four-point safety harness to keep you strapped in
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Thus far, I've spent at least $10,000, $11,000 in material costs. As for the value, it's hard to say how much it would actually sell for
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but ballpark figure, if it sold to a diehard Alofan, I could probably get upwards of $100,000, I think
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Everywhere I seem to drive this thing, it turns heads. Pulling to a gas station, people are stopping to take pictures
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asking questions about it you know people may not know or recognize that it's a warthog but
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they just think it looks cool so they want to take pictures and we're just pulling off the highway to
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use the gas station and I saw and I knew exactly what it was told my wife I was like oh it's like
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there's a warthog over there we got to go check it out you know I grew up playing the first halo
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when I had it up and running and for the first time ever I was able to actually take it out on
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road, take it for a test drive and just the feeling of driving this unique, you know, beastly
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looking machine down the road that looks like nothing else, just puts a warm fuzzy feeling
