The World’s Most Modified Truck

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TWO BROTHERS have given a 2000 Kenworth W900 L truck the ultimate custom rig – making it one of the world’s most modified trucks. Raul and Roland Mendez, from San Antonio, Texas are the ingenious minds behind the award-winning 750 horsepower, Kenworth, one of the most modified trucks in the world, known as Project TOC. The truck took almost a year and a half to complete and the brothers estimate they have customised over 90% of the truck, spending up to $180,000 in the process.

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00:00The majority of the stuff on this truck is probably 90% custom, from the front to the

00:05back.

00:06A lot of the stuff on that truck is f***ing crazy s***.

00:13We built this rig to show everybody in the U.S. that we're the ones to beat and show

00:17what we can do.

00:18In San Antonio, Texas, the Mendez family of Texas Chrome have created what can only be

00:24described as the most customized truck in the world.

00:28If I was to describe this truck in three words, it would be simply badass.

00:32This is the Kenworth TOC.

00:37This truck took almost a year and a half to build.

00:39We have probably about 150,000, 180,000 in it.

00:43This truck here has got about 750 horsepower.

00:46Perhaps the most impressive part of this customized truck is its completely unique and incredibly

00:53intricate paint job.

00:55The paint job on it took weeks and weeks of weeks of just hard work.

01:01The filigree design that was done on it, done by hand.

01:03And then of course, we did the matching design on the wheels and also the stacks.

01:08What we're looking at here is eight different colors of paint.

01:11This paint job is crazy.

01:12I think here at Texas Chrome, we've probably painted over 800 trucks in the last 10 years.

01:18And by far, to me, this is the baddest paint job I've ever seen.

01:21And it's not only the paint job that's totally unique.

01:24The rest of the truck is also customized from the ground up.

01:28We have a custom grill.

01:29This is an aluminum wheel.

01:31And the process to do this is sand and polish your aluminum wheel to perfection.

01:37Afterwards, we got it engraved.

01:39And the last process is dipping it in chrome.

01:41No detail has been spared as the inside also contains tons of unique features.

01:47Okay, guys, on the interior, it's an original dash.

01:50We wanted to keep it nice and clean.

01:52And then we added some switches that we sell.

01:54They go stick shift here that was actually engraved.

01:57I mean, we have a total of 38 speakers and woofers combined.

02:01It just rocks the house.

02:03Even the motor has a story to tell.

02:06The motor was completely taken apart, rebuilt, painted piece by piece to give us this look

02:13that you see here to mimic what we have on the truck.

02:15The actual turbo got dipped in chrome, stainless steel pieces, air charge cooler hoses.

02:21The truck was finished off with custom logos, custom lights, and the ultimate custom grill.

02:28This is a custom truck.

02:29One light, chopper style.

02:31We matched the five lights up on the back of the sleeper to our front bumper.

02:35And we finished it off with a nice emblem here.

02:38Project TLC.

02:39The baddest truck ever built.

02:41Unsurprisingly, this truck has been gathering prestige, getting stacks of awards.

02:51We showed it at the Dallas Truck Show a few years ago and popped in there, pulled it into the convention center.

02:56The first response is like, I see our fellow competitors.

03:00They're looking at the truck and they walk towards it and they turn back.

03:04Like, they don't even want to look at it, man.

03:06They're just in their pants seeing the truck.

03:08This truck's taken pretty much off the top awards at the Dallas Truck Show.

03:12Of course it took best of show.

03:14It also took best engine, best interior, and best paint.

03:17The truck gets noticed wherever it goes, much to the pride of the family.

03:22Man, seeing the people's smiles and the way they look at the engraving, they can't believe it.

03:26The way they look at the paint makes me happy, man.

03:28It makes me proud of what our team was able to accomplish with this truck.

03:32And it's far from over for the Mendez family, as their next project promises to be more impressive than ever.

03:39Next big project in the works is going to be Project 289, which is going to be an older antique truck,

03:44which is back in the day they have the needle nose hood.

03:46And I'm going to bring some of the cool modern stuff, which is going to be bagging the front end,

03:50custom paint, loud radio, a little bit of copper plating,

03:53some of the new stuff people haven't seen in the custom truck world.

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