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 said this is a hobby but it sure don'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. The members spend hundreds of thousands of
00:31pounds and countless hours turning their regular cars into moving, roaring works of art.
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 pin striping. Money wise it's very hard to pinpoint it but
01:04a 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 the girls, why lie?
01:22But eventually you do it so long, you overlook that, that's not what you're building and
01:25you fall in love with the builds and the attention the builds get and everybody's reaction of
01:30something different. When they first see our rides on the street or anywhere we're setting
01:35them up, first thing that comes out of people's mouth is wow. Second thing is why would you
01:40do that to a new car? Our car club is we try to go after the newest stuff and pretty much
01:45mess it up. The car is great, it's fantastic. It seems
01:50like there's no part of this car that's not customized. The paint is extraordinary, definitely
01:59has show quality. This vehicle is definitely above the top, unique.
02:05We ran out of ideas on cars so why not build a golf cart right? We put some 14 inch rims
02:12on the golf cart, LED's all the way on the bottom, halo lights, it's got TVs everywhere.
02:16We have an iPad that goes on the dash, Xbox 360 in the back and actually this damn golf
02:22cart weighs probably as much as a car. I'm sitting on a good 12 batteries right now.
02:27You spend at least $5,000 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, Florida,
02:46St. 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 and we've gone everywhere with these guys, with our members. Sometimes they do
03:05more 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 my perks
03:15are different, my rewards are different. I grew up reading Lowrider magazine here, always
03:20aspired to maybe one day come out in the magazine, but successfully we've won and I'm a three
03:27time champ when it comes to Lowrider.
03:30Say I'm obsessed with all these vehicles, but I don't call it obsessed, it's just what
03:35you love doing.
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