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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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Videographer / director: Tyler Mann
Producer: Frazer Randalls, Ruby Coote
Editor: Pete Ansell

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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.
00:09We built this rig to show everybody in the U.S. we're the ones to beat and show what
00:18we can do.
00:19In San Antonio, Texas, the Mendez family of Texas Chrome have created what can only
00:24be described 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 to 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.
01:12This paint job is crazy.
01:13Here 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.
01:29We have a custom grill.
01:30This is an aluminum wheel.
01:32And the process to do this is sand and polish your aluminum wheel to perfection.
01:38Afterwards, we got it engraved.
01:40And the last process is dipping it in chrome.
01:42No detail has been spared as the inside also contains tons of unique features.
01:48Okay, guys, on the interior, it's an original dash.
01:51We wanted to keep it nice and clean.
01:52And then we added some switches that we sell.
01:55They go stick shift here that was actually engraved.
01:58I mean, we have a total of 38 stickers and woofers combined.
02:02It just rocks the house.
02:04Even the motor has a story to tell.
02:07The motor was completely taken apart, rebuilt, painted piece by piece to give us this look
02:14that you see here to mimic what we have on the truck.
02:16The actual turbo got dipped in chrome, stainless steel pieces, air charge cooler hoses.
02:22The truck was finished off with custom logos, custom lights, and the ultimate custom grill.
02:28This is a custom truck.
02:30One light, chopper style.
02:32We matched the five lights up on the back of the sleeper to our front bumper.
02:36And we finished it off with a nice emblem here.
02:39Project TLC.
02:40The baddest truck ever built.
02:42Unsurprisingly, this truck has been gathering prestige, getting stacks of awards.
02:50We 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.
03:18The 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, and I'm going to bring some of the cool modern stuff,
03:49which is going to be bagging the front end, custom paint, loud radio, a little bit of copper plating,
03:54some of the new stuff people haven't seen in the custom truck world.
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