00:00I own trucks, live trucks, breathe trucks, and it's been my whole life so far.
00:06This is filthy, a burnt out truck, heaps of smoke.
00:14Yep, I'm Michael Lake, owner of Truckin' Stainless here in Brisbane, Australia.
00:32This is my truck that I've built for burnouts.
00:50It's got a 28 litre Cummins, that's a white 4000, 75 model, it's got twin turbos, all custom made.
00:58My passion for trucks has been since I was a young boy, I was a truck driver most of my life.
01:04I just had enough of it, wanted to get out of it, try something different.
01:09So we started at home, built it up from home, gone from there.
01:14I drew pictures of it when I first started building it and just sort of went from there.
01:20It's pretty much what it looks like on the picture, it's one of a kind.
01:28Started with a set of diffs, put the motor and box in place, streamlined it on my concrete and we started building the truck from there.
01:47Yeah, it's all pretty much all custom.
01:50The build's taken seven years, we go from starting with a cab that was rusted out to putting it all together.
01:58Just every night pretty much, yeah, after I'd finish work I'd just go out there and just start working on that until I had enough and then go back up inside and then get up and do it all over again.
02:08It's a bit of an old school look that we've done.
02:11We've got a lift up bumper, it all tilts out and lifts up so I can get over speed bumps and what not.
02:18That's our custom grill, we've manufactured and all done here in-house.
02:23You see these gauges, they've all got our own custom truck and stainless logo in them.
02:28That's a pretty cool little feature we've got.
02:31It looks pretty good at night too, it'll all light up.
02:34Up here we've got our front brakes, so we'll hold them down to do a burnout and we'll hold them down until we're done.
02:49The hardest part would be to...
02:53I was originally marrying the box and the motor up.
02:56Other than that, yeah, we just worked on it until we got it, until we worked it out.
03:00A bit of a feature would be, I reckon, would be the grill.
03:03I definitely like the front look of it.
03:05It's definitely in your face.
03:07Our custom steering wheel here with a quick release.
03:10I've got the Transformer logo over here because everyone reckons it's a bit of a bumblebee.
03:15The whole building process, probably, I wouldn't have put a price to it, but yeah, probably $50,000.
03:22The engine is a V12 1710 Cummins, 28 litre.
03:27It's rated at 900 horsepower and 4,000 foot-pound of torque.
03:31They can go to like 2,300 horsepower or four turbos.
03:36That's really cracking.
03:38Nah, I don't think I'd ever sell it.
03:40It's just part of the family now.
03:42My friends are a bit jealous of Filthy.
03:45It's all good.
03:46I get to take them for a run around the block and they soon change their mind.
03:49This truck is outstanding.
03:52Like, I really think it's beyond words.
03:55It's the best truck, unless you're out there in Australia, for sure.
03:58Yeah, I'm proud of the truck we built, all the work we've done to it and all the customisation.
04:04One of a kind, kind of a truck.
04:07It's definitely different.
04:09Definitely proud of it.
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