00:00 I own trucks, live trucks, breathe trucks, and I've spent my whole life so far.
00:06 This is filthy, a burnt out truck, heaps of smoke.
00:26 Yep, Michael Lake, owner of Truckin' Stainless here in Brisbane, Australia.
00:30 This is my truck that I've built for burnouts.
00:34 It's got a 28 litre Cummins, that's a white 4000, 75 model.
00:54 It's got twin turbos, all custom made.
00:57 Passion for trucks has been since a young boy, yeah I was a truck driver most of my life.
01:03 And yeah, just had enough of it, wanted to get out of it, try something different.
01:08 So we started at home, built it up from home, gone from there.
01:13 I drew pictures of it when I first started building it and just sort of went from there.
01:19 It's pretty much what it looks like on the picture.
01:22 It's one of a kind.
01:25 Started with a set of diffs, started with a set of diffs, put the motor and box in place.
01:41 String lined it on the concrete and we started building the truck from there.
01:46 Yeah, it's all pretty much all custom.
01:50 The build's taken seven years.
01:52 We go from starting with a cab that was rusted out to putting it all together.
01:57 Just every night pretty much, yeah, after I'd finished work I'd just go out there and start working on that
02:03 until I had enough and then go back up inside and then get up and do it all over again.
02:08 It's a bit of old school look, we've got a lift up bumper.
02:12 It all tilts out, lifts up, so I can get over speed bumps and what not.
02:17 It's a custom grill we've manufactured and all done here in-house.
02:21 You see these gauges, they've all got our own custom truck and stainless logo in them.
02:26 That's a pretty cool little feature we've got.
02:29 It looks pretty good at night too, all light up.
02:32 Up here we've got our front brakes, so we'll hold them down to do a burn out.
02:38 We'll hold them down until we're done.
02:41 The hardest part would be to...
02:44 I was originally marrying the box and the motor up.
02:49 Other than that, we just worked on it until we worked it out.
02:53 A bit of a feature would be, I reckon, would be the grill.
02:56 I definitely like the front look of it, it's definitely in your face.
03:00 A custom steering wheel here with a quick release.
03:03 I've got the front wheel on the back, so I can just pull it out and put it in the back.
03:07 Custom steering wheel here with a quick release.
03:10 I've got the Transformer logo over here, because everyone reckons it's a bit of a bumblebee.
03:15 The whole building process, I wouldn't have put a price to it, but probably $50,000.
03:22 The engine is a V12 1710 Cummins, 28 litre.
03:27 It's rated at 900 horsepower and 4000 foot-pound of torque.
03:32 You can go to like 2300 horsepower or four turbos.
03:36 That's really cracking.
03:38 Nah, I don't think I'd ever sell it.
03:40 It's just part of the family now.
03:41 My friends are a bit jealous of it, of filthy.
03:44 But it's all good.
03:46 I get to take them for a run around the block and they soon change their mind.
03:49 This truck is outstanding.
03:51 Like, I really think it's beyond words.
03:54 It's the best truck in Australia, out there, in Australia for sure.
03:58 Yeah, I'm proud of the truck we've built, all the work we've done to it,
04:02 and all the customisation.
04:04 One-of-a-kind kind of a truck.
04:07 It's definitely different.
04:09 Definitely proud of it.
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