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.
00:20000 I said this was a hobby but sure doesn't
00:23don't feel like a hobby.
00:24You put in more hours than you do at work and we love it but it feels like a full time
00:28job.
00:29The members spend hundreds of thousands of pounds and countless hours turning their regular
00:33cars into moving, roaring works of art.
00:37Here you have a 1998 Chevy two-door Tahoe.
00:41We converted the whole front end as you see, fenders.
00:45We added oversized wheels, 28-inch, fully engraved and painted.
00:49We added a nice mural on top of the hood.
00:52Our caddy paint job, pearl paint job and then some pin striping.
01:00Money-wise, it's very hard to pinpoint it, but a rough estimate would probably be $90,000 to $100,000.
01:08I know it sounds like a lot to a lot of people, but also it's a build that has taken maybe four to four plus years.
01:18First started doing it for, you know, the girls. Why lie?
01:22But eventually you do it so long, you overlook that. That's not what you're building.
01:26You fall in love with the builds and, you know, the attention the builds get and everybody's reaction of something different.
01:32When they first see our rides on the street or anywhere we're setting them up,
01:36first thing that comes out of people's mouth is, you know, wow.
01:39Second thing is, why would you do that to a new car?
01:41Our car club is we try to go after 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.
02:00This vehicle is definitely above the top. Unique.
02:07We ran out of ideas on cars, so why not build a golf cart, right?
02:10We put some 14-inch rims on the golf cart, LEDs all the way on the bottom, halo lights.
02:15It's got TVs everywhere. We have an iPad that goes on the dash, Xbox 360 in the back.
02:20And actually this damn golf cart weighs probably as much as a car.
02:24I'm sitting on a good 12 batteries right now.
02:26You spend at least $5,000 just on these batteries.
02:30Despite the incredible amount of time and money involved in being a member of the club,
02:34it's grown exponentially since its inception in 2001.
02:39We started in Montebello, California.
02:41We've expanded to 28 chapters, including Texas, Florida, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Arizona, Nevada, Utah,
02:52and now presently in Japan as well.
02:55Nocturnal as a club, I mean, now it's more like family.
02:58I've missed so many birthday parties, parties, and we've gone everywhere with these guys, with our members, you know,
03:04and sometimes they do more for you than your own family does.
03:09Everybody thinks I'm crazy in my family.
03:11They say I waste too much money on it, but my perks are different, my rewards are different.
03:16I grew up reading the Lowrider magazine here, always aspired to maybe one day come out in the magazine,
03:22but successfully we've won, and I'm a three-time champ when it comes to Lowrider.
03:29They say I'm obsessed with all these vehicles, but I don't call it obsessed.
03:33It's just, you know, what you love doing.
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