Candy-colored paint jobs and oversized rims are standard for cars belonging to one of the largest custom car clubs in the world. Nokturnal Car Clubs more than 250 members spend hundreds of thousands of dollars transforming their regular rides into moving, roaring works of art. The organization was formed in Montebello, California, USA in 2001, but has since expanded to 28 chapters across the US, Europe and Asia. Members of the club customize their cars with eye-catching paint jobs, tall rims, custom speaker systems and a variety of electronics.
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00:000000 The Nocturnal Car Club is one of the biggest
00:14customized vehicle clubs in the world, with chapters across America, Europe and Asia.
00:200000 I say this is a hobby, but it sure doesn't
00:23feel like a hobby. You put in more hours than you do at work. We love it, but it feels like
00:27a full time job.
00:280000 The members spend hundreds of thousands of
00:31pounds and countless hours turning their regular cars into moving, roaring works of
00:36art.
00:370000 Here you have a 1998 Chevy two-door Tahoe.
00:42We converted the whole front end, as you see, fenders. We added oversized wheels, 28-inch,
00:48fully engraved and painted. We added a nice mural on top of the hood, our caddy paint
00:54job, pearl paint job, and then some paint striping.
00:580000 Money-wise, it's very hard to pinpoint it,
01:04but a rough estimate would probably be $90,000 to $100,000. I know it sounds like a lot to
01:10a lot of people, but also it's a bill that has taken maybe four to four plus years.
01:160000 First start doing it for, you know, the girls.
01:21Why lie? But eventually you do it so long, you overlook that. That's not what you're
01:25building and you fall in love with the builds and, you know, the attention the builds get
01:29and everybody's reaction of something different.
01:310000 When they first see our rides on the street
01:34or anywhere we're setting them up, first thing that comes out of people's mouth is, you know,
01:38wow. Second thing is, why would you do that to a new car? Our car club is we try to go
01:43after the newest stuff and pretty much mess it up.
01:46The car is great. It's fantastic. It seems there's no part of this car that's not customized.
01:57The paint is extraordinary, definitely has show quality. This vehicle is definitely above
02:03the top, but unique.
02:050000 We ran out of ideas on cars, so why not build
02:10a golf cart, right? We put some 14-inch rims on the golf cart, LEDs all the way on the
02:14bottom, halo lights. It's got TVs everywhere. We have an iPad that goes on the dash, Xbox
02:19360 in the back. And actually this damn golf cart weighs probably as much as a car. I'm
02:25sitting on a good 12 batteries right now. You spend at least $5000 just on these batteries.
02:31Despite the incredible amount of time and money involved in being a member of the club,
02:35it's grown exponentially since its inception in 2001.
02:39We started in Montebello, California. We've expanded to 28 chapters, including Texas,
02:46Florida, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and now presently in Japan as well.
02:55Nocturnal as a club, I mean, now it's more like family. I've missed so many birthday
03:00parties, parties, and we've gone everywhere with these guys, with our members, you know,
03:05and sometimes they do more for you than your own family does.
03:09Everybody thinks I'm crazy in my family. They say I waste too much money on it, but
03:14my perks are different, my rewards are different. I grew up reading the Lowrider magazine here,
03:20always aspired to maybe one day come out in the magazine, but successfully we've won,
03:26and I'm a three-time champ when it comes to Lowrider.
03:29You say I'm obsessed with all these vehicles, but I don't call it obsessed. It's just, you know,
03:34what you love doing.