You didn't ask for it, but here it is anyway. :)

Here's the buggy they have now, for reference sake. Upon getting this pic, I suddenly remembered that it's a scratch built chassis and not from a Jeep, but the size comparison is the same. They bought this one already built and ran some modifications over it. Personally, the few times I've been on it it's felt precarious and tippy to me (you'll see why in a second). It's still fun though.

This is why I think that one feels a little dinky (it's hard to tell from the above picture because there's nothing for scale, but that's the steering wheel jutting out in the center, so if I had to guess I'd say it's about half the length of Claim Jumper <pictured below>):

I loved that thing--it was like having our own sail barge. Apologies for the quality of the last one. It's been on the wall of dad's shop for years now, but I thought it was a cool, mean-looking action shot. :) That's Dad, btw. And that's probably his 30.06 with him, since it's not a black powder rifle. The shots are all at or near our old hunting camp in Central Florida, probably ~15 years ago. We still have acess to that land, or a chunk of it anyway. The camp is pretty much toast now, but they have a trailer out there to take care of that now, and less guys to share the land with, so it all works out.

And just for grins, this was our last airboat. He used to build them when we had a camp out in the Everglades, and he bought this one from a friend a while back and fixed it up. It's at a show here, and it won several awards while he had it. It got sold not to long ago so they could start back on new buggy projects, but he sold it to another friend, so we can still borrow it. :)

Ok, that's it. Apologies again if this is out of place, but I thought it'd be appreciated here. :)

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"saaaausaaaage... "
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Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company