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People look in the rearview mirror and they see an airplane and they start panicking
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The plane car is the brainchild of 56-year-old Atlanta resident Mark Ray, who has previously built a roadworthy boat car
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My 17-year-old daughter Brianna encouraged me to build something else because she said that I was kind of getting bored with the boat car
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which is still a very unusual vehicle, but I came up with the idea of building a plane car
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The vehicle was constructed from a Chevrolet tracker and a 2003 Cirrus SR-22
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The Cirrus was perfect for me. It was just perfect. And the aircraft, luckily enough, has a fiberglass body, which makes it a little bit lighter weight
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but much more durable than your average aluminum aircraft. Despite having the vision for his project, Mark was happy to let others do the hard work
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I'm not the type of individual that gets their hands real dirty and involved in ripping metal and cutting things and whatever
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I'd rather come up with the idea, write the check, and then have the vehicle when it's done
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I went to a body shop and he took the entire body off
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It was a coming collision where I live. Then I went to another shop
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FlexFab also in my area. They fabricated the two together to make it one The next challenge was to make his creation road legal I put on side view mirrors tail lights it has headlights has a rearview mirror
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it's got a tag light, it's got seatbelts, and yes, it's past emissions
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The tail used to come out another, I'd say, 15 or 20 inches
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I had to cut that back so that the vehicle would be able to be driven down the street
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without ripping into other cars along the road. And Mark carried out the finishing touches to the plane car himself
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When I did get the vehicle finished, I painted it myself, and I striped it and decaled it myself
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This vehicle took me about five months to put together. It cost me a little under $10,000
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Despite the vehicle's unique look, it still acts as a family runaround
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I take my son to school in it, and the school goes crazy
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All the people just go nuts when I show up with that airplane, and I have a good time
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We go out for dinner in it. We come outside and there's a full crowd of people
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and I have to answer a ton of questions about the plane but that's part of the game
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You have an unusual vehicle. You've got to answer a lot of questions. But I really do like it a lot
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and I'm going to enjoy it and pass this one down to probably my son
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But Mark could be persuaded to part with his unusual mode of transport
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I've had a few people ask if it was for sale. I told them not right now
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but if the right price was offered to me, I'd sell it
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Maybe. Maybe. Money talks
