While this may look like a capable amphibious car that you’d happily drive straight into a lake, it’s just an old GM SUV with a boat on top in place of a body. It does turn heads and it does make people smile and take photos, but the story behind it is really cool.

It was created by Mark Ray at the request of his breast cancer-stricken wife Robyn who asked him to do it so he could take his mind off caring for her. She actually bet him he couldn’t do it, but Mark bought a GMC Jimmy and a sunken and recovered Sea Ray Bow Rider and put the two together.

This means it drives like the Jimmy but looks like a boat, but sadly he didn’t waterproof anything and the propeller you see on the back is just for show.

Check it and its owner out in the video posted below courtesy of Barcroft.

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