Roland: The majority of the stuff on this truck is
probably 90% custom.
From the front to the back.
A lot of the stuff on that truck is crazy.
Raul: We built this rig to to show everybody in the US
we're the ones to beat
and show what we can do.
In San Antonio Texas, the Mendez family of Texas Chrome have created,
what can only be described
as the most customized truck in the world.
Roland: If I was to describe this truck in three words,
it would be: simply bad-ass.
This is the Kenworth TOC.
Raul: This truck took almost
a year and a half to build.
We have probably about $150,000 or $180,000 in it.
Raul: This truck here has got about 750 horsepower.
Perhaps the most impressive part of this customized truck, is it's completely unique
and incredibly intricate paint job.
Roland: The paint job on it took
weeks and weeks and weeks of just hard work.
The filigree design that was done on it,
done by hand.
And then of course we did the matching,
design on the wheels and also the stacks.
What we're looking at here is
eight different colors of paint.
This paint job is crazy.
I think here at Texas Chrome,
we've probably painted over
800 trucks in the last 10 years.
And by far to me this is the baddest
paint job I've ever seen.
And it's not only the paint job
that's totally unique.
The rest of the truck
is also customized from the ground up.
Roland: We have a custom grill.
This is an aluminum wheel.
And the process to do this
is sand and polish your aluminum wheel to perfection.
Afterwards,
we got it engraved.
And the last process is dipping it in chrome.
No detail has been spared
as the inside also contains
tons of unique features.
Roland: Okay guys on the interior,
it's an original dash,
we wanted to keep it nice and clean.
And then we added some switches that we sell.
They got a stick shift here that was actually engraved.
I mean we have the total 38
speakers and woofers combined.
it just rocks the house.
Even the motor
has a story to tell.
Roland: The motor was completely taken apart, rebuilt,
painted piece by piece, to give us this look that you see here.
To mimic what we have on the truck.
The actual turbo get dipped in chrome,
stainless steel pieces
air charged cooler hoses.
The truck was finished off
with custom logos,
custom lights,
and the ultimate
custom grill.
Roland: This is a custom truck,
one light chopper style.
We matched the five lights up on the
back of the sleeper to our front bumper,
And we finished it off with a nice emblem here.
Project TOC,
the baddest truck ever built.
Unsurprisingly, this truck has been gathering prestige, getting stacks of awards.
Raul: We showed it at Dallas Truck Show a few years ago,
and popped in there
pulled it in to the convention centre,
Roland: The first response is like,
I see our fellow competitors.
They're looking at the truck and they walk towards it, and they turn back.
Like they don't even want to look at it man!
They're just **** their pants seeing the truck.
Raul: This truck's taken pretty much all the top awards at the Dallas Truck Show.
Roland: Of course it took, "Best of Show"
It also took, "Best engine", "Best Interior" and "Best Paint."
The truck gets noticed wherever it goes
much to the pride of the family.
Roland: And seeing the people smile,
and the way they look at the engraving like
they can't believe it, the way they look at the paint.
It makes me happy man, makes me proud of
what our team was able to accomplish with this truck.
And it's far from over for the Mendez family.
As their next project promises to be more impressive than ever.
Raul: Next big project in the works is going to be
Project 289 which is going to be an older antique truck.
Which back in the day, they had the needle nose hood.
And I'm going to bring some of the cool modern stuff,
which is going to be back in the front end.
Custom paint, loud radio, a little bit of copper plating.
Some of the new stuff people haven't seen, in the custom truck world.