TWO BROTHERS have given a 2000 Kenworth W900 L truck the ultimate custom rig – making it one of the world’s most modified trucks. Raul and Roland Mendez, from San Antonio, Texas are the ingenious minds behind the award-winning 750 horsepower, Kenworth, one of the most modified trucks in the world, known as Project TOC. The truck took almost a year and a half to complete and the brothers estimate they have customised over 90% of the truck, spending up to $180,000 in the process.
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00:00 The majority of the stuff on this truck is probably 90% custom.
00:05 From the front to the back. A lot of the stuff on that truck is f***ing crazy s***.
00:10 We built this rig to show everybody in the US that we're the ones to beat and show what we can do.
00:18 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.
00:28 If I was to describe this truck in three words, it would be simply badass.
00:31 This is the Kenworth TOC.
00:36 This truck took almost a year and a half to build. We have probably about 150,000 to 180,000 in it.
00:43 This truck here has got about 750 horsepower.
00:46 Perhaps the most impressive part of this customized truck is its completely unique and incredibly intricate paint job.
00:56 The paint job on it took weeks and weeks and weeks of just hard work.
01:00 The filigree design that was done on it, done by hand.
01:04 And then of course we did the matching design on the wheels and also the stacks.
01:09 What we're looking at here is eight different colors of paint.
01:12 This paint job is crazy. I think here at Texas Chrome we've probably painted over 800 trucks in the last 10 years.
01:18 And by far to me this is the baddest paint job I've ever seen.
01:22 And it's not only the paint job that's totally unique.
01:24 The rest of the truck is also customized from the ground up.
01:28 We have a custom grill. This is an aluminum wheel.
01:32 And the process to do this is sand and polish your aluminum wheel to perfection.
01:37 Afterwards we got it in gray and the last process is dipping it in chrome.
01:42 No detail has been spared as the inside also contains tons of unique features.
01:48 Okay guys on the interior, it's an original dash.
01:51 We wanted to keep it nice and clean and then we added some switches that we sell.
01:55 They go with thick shift here that was actually engraved.
01:58 I mean we have the total of 38 speakers and woofers combined.
02:02 It just rocks the house.
02:04 Even the motor has a story to tell.
02:07 The motor was completely taken apart, rebuilt, painted piece by piece to give us this look that you see here.
02:15 To mimic what we have on the truck.
02:16 The actual turbo got dipped in chrome, stainless steel pieces, air charged cooler hoses.
02:22 The truck was finished off with custom logos, custom lights and the ultimate custom grill.
02:28 This is a custom truck. One light, chopper style.
02:32 We matched the five lights up on the back of the sleeper to our front bumper.
02:36 And we finished it off with a nice emblem here.
02:39 Project TLC. The baddest truck ever built.
02:44 Unsurprisingly, this truck has been gathering prestige, getting stacks of awards.
02:50 We showed it at the Dallas Truck Show a few years ago and popped in there, pulled it into the convention center.
02:57 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.
03:05 Like they don't even want to look at it man. They're just sh*tting their pants seeing the truck.
03:09 This truck's taken pretty much all the top awards at the Dallas Truck Show.
03:13 Of course it took Best of Show, it also took Best Engine, Best Interior and Best Paint.
03:18 The truck gets notice wherever it goes, much to the pride of the family.
03:23 Seeing the people's smiles and the way they look at the engraving, they can't believe it, the way they look at the paint.
03:28 Makes me happy man, makes me proud of what our team was able to accomplish with this truck.
03:33 And it's far from over for the Mendez family, as their next project promises to be more impressive than ever.
03:40 Next big project in the works is going to be Project 289, which is going to be an older antique truck, which is back in the day they had the needle nose hood.
03:47 And I'm going to bring some of the cool modern stuff, which is going to be bagging the front end, custom paint, loud radio, a little bit of copper plating.
03:54 Some of the new stuff people haven't seen in the custom truck world.
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