Extreme Super Truck: The Kings Of Customised Picks Ups
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, has been building super trucks for over 15 years. It takes between five to 50 weeks to complete one of the trucks that can cost over a quarter million dollars.
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00:00Everyone likes pick-ups. This is America and we make the ultimate pick-up. The Compensator,
00:14yes I've heard of that. I think the bigger the truck, the smaller the package. I don't
00:19think we have many of those. Most of our customers have a purpose for this truck.
00:24The sky's the limit at Xtreme Supertruck, where one man and his crew build giant trucks
00:30as tall as 10 feet high for rappers, kings and hunters alike. But the ultimate in customization
00:37comes at a price.
00:39These trucks go from $89,000 to approximately a quarter million dollars and everyone likes
00:45big. We've got a Big Mac, we've got a Whopper, we might have a super truck.
00:48With the past 13 years, Chris Walker has torn apart big 4x4s and SUVs and built them
00:54back up again from scratch in his shop in Georgia, USA.
00:58The cool thing I do is I don't take a little truck and try to make it big. I actually take
01:03a big truck and I shrink it down. These are commercial trucks when we buy them and we
01:09turn them into, lack of better words, luxury pick-ups. This is how everything starts. We've
01:14got a cab, a couple doors, and cloth seats and rubber floors. And from here, we start
01:23doing our magic.
01:25Eager to see what magic Chris has performed on his behalf is customer Steven, who can't
01:29wait to see his new truck for the first time.
01:32It's big. It's black. The rest I really don't know yet. I had about 10% input and the rest
01:39is up to him. I'm ready to see it.
01:41Oh my God. Look at that. This is nothing what I looked at and it's friggin' amazing.
01:49When you lift that lid up there, you've got tons of secret storage.
01:53Oh yeah.
01:54Bad boy horn. Full air ride seats, custom center console. You've got an all-component
02:01stereo system. It's going to sound like you're in a concert hall. And by the way, I don't
02:05know if you've ever got to blow up your beach toys or you've got a flat or a quad's down
02:09on air. You've always got 10 gallons of air on your truck with an auxiliary air hook up
02:14there.
02:15That's nice.
02:16The really cool thing about this right now, there's one in the world. Cheers.
02:22All of Chris' builds are unique, but as well as size, they all have power, speed, and smoothness
02:27of ride in common.
02:30We're going to look at a red 4x4, 4-door pickup that's an Extreme. And it's 22.5 feet long.
02:37It's just over 15,000 pounds. It's 100 inches wide again. And I'd say it's about 9 foot
02:446 in height.
02:46So that's going to be a Cummings ISB 350 horsepower, 950 foot pounds of torque. The transmission
02:54is going to be a digital 6-speed push-button Allison, which is a 3200 series RDS, which
03:00it handles 1,695 foot pounds of torque.
03:04Through a Kelderman system, we've got no springs in our trucks. We have full air ride suspensions
03:09front and rear.
03:12All these trucks pull 25,000 pounds. They get 13 miles at a gallon. And they'll do 100
03:19mile an hour in a heartbeat.
03:21As huge as it is, this isn't even the biggest truck that Chris makes.
03:26The biggest truck is a 6-door, 4x4 pickup truck. It's 27 feet long. It's 100 inches
03:32wide, 9 to 10 feet tall, depending on the tire package.
03:36The huge pickup trucks certainly stand out, alongside vehicles of more standard proportions.
03:41It's just a dream come true. You've got the time and the money. It's something I would
03:48like to do.
03:52And Chris is justifiably proud of his bespoke creations.
03:55They can only get this truck from one guy in the world. And it feels cool to be able
04:00to build it for them and knowing that it's such a quality product.