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.
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