Super-sized pick up truck designer Chris Walker makes giant cars up to ten feet high. The sky's the limit when it comes to customizing a giant ride at Extreme Super Truck in Augusta, Georgia, USA. Owner Chris Walker, 53, has been building super trucks for 13 years. It takes between five to 50 weeks to complete one of the trucks that can cost up to a quarter million dollars.
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00:01 Everyone likes pickups. This is America and we make the ultimate pickup. The compensator.
00:14 Yes, I've heard of that. I think the bigger the truck, the smaller the package. I don't
00:19 think we have many of those. Most of our customers have a purpose for this truck.
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00:24 The sky's the limit at Extreme Super Truck, where one man and his crew build giant trucks
00:30 as tall as 10 feet high for rappers, kings and hunters alike. But the ultimate in customization
00:37 comes at a price. These trucks go from $89,000 to approximately a quarter million dollars.
00:44 And everyone likes big. We got a Big Mac. We got a Whopper. Might have a super truck.
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00:49 For 13 years, Chris Walker's torn apart big four by fours and SUVs and built them back
00:54 up again from scratch in his shop in Georgia, USA. The cool thing I do is I don't take a
01:01 little truck and try to make it big. I actually take a big truck and I shrink it down. These
01:06 are commercial trucks when we buy them and we turn them into, lack of better words, luxury
01:12 trucks. This is how everything starts. We got a cab, a couple doors and cloth seats
01:19 and rubber floors. And from here we start doing our magic. Eager to see what magic Chris
01:26 has performed on his behalf is customer Steven, who can't wait to see his new truck for the
01:31 first time. It's big. It's black. The rest, I really don't know yet. I had about 10 percent
01:37 input and the rest is up to him. I'm ready to see it. Oh, my God. Look at that. This
01:45 is nothing what I looked at. And it's frigging amazing. When you lift that lid up there,
01:50 you've got tons of secret storage. Oh, yeah. Bad boy horn. Full air ride seats. Custom
01:58 center console. You've got an all component stereo system. It's going to sound like you're
02:02 in a concert hall. And by the way, I don't know if you ever got to blow up your beach
02:06 toys or you got a flat or a quads down on air. You always got 10 gallons of air on your
02:11 truck with an auxiliary air hookup. That's nice. The really cool thing about this right
02:18 now is one in the world. Cheers. All of Chris's builds are unique, but as well as size, they
02:25 all have power, speed and smoothness of ride in common. We're going to look at a red four
02:31 by four four door pickup. That's an extreme and it's twenty two and a half feet long.
02:37 It's just over fifteen thousand pounds. It's one hundred inches wide again. And I'd say
02:43 it's about nine foot six in height. So that's going to be a Cummings ISB three hundred and
02:49 fifty horsepower, nine hundred and fifty foot pounds of torque. The transmission is going
02:54 to be a digital six speed push button Allison, which is a thirty two hundred series RDS,
03:00 which it handles sixteen hundred and ninety five foot pounds of torque. Through a Kelderman
03:04 system, we've got no springs in our trucks. We have full air ride suspensions front and
03:10 rear. All these trucks pull twenty five thousand pounds. They get 13 miles of the gallon and
03:18 they'll do a hundred mile an hour in a heartbeat. As huge as it is, this isn't even the biggest
03:23 truck that Chris makes. The biggest truck is a six door four by four pickup truck. It's
03:29 twenty seven feet long. It's one hundred inches wide, nine to ten feet tall, depending on
03:34 the tire package. The huge pickup trucks certainly stand out alongside vehicles of more standard
03:40 proportions. It's a dream come true. You've got the time and the money, you know, it's
03:47 something I would like to do. And Chris is justifiably proud of his bespoke creations.
03:55 They can only get this truck from one guy in the world and it feels cool to be able
03:59 to build it for them and knowing that it's such a quality product.
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