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 pickups. This is America. And we make the ultimate pickup.
00:13The compensator. Yes, I've heard of that. I think the bigger the truck, the smaller package.
00:19I don't think we have many of those. Most of our customers have a purpose for this truck.
00:24The sky's the limit at Xtreme Super Truck, where one man and his crew build giant trucks as tall as 10 feet high for rappers, kings and hunters alike.
00:35But the ultimate in customization comes at a price.
00:39These trucks go from $89,000 to approximately a quarter million dollars. And everyone likes big. We got a Big Mac. We got a Whopper. Might have a super truck.
00:48For the past 13 years, Chris Walker has torn apart big 4x4s and SUVs and built them back 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 a big truck and I shrink it down.
01:06These are commercial trucks when we buy them and we turn them into, lack of better words, luxury pickups.
01:12This is how everything starts. We got a cab, a couple doors, and cloth seats and rubber floors. And from here, we start doing our magic.
01:24Eager to see what magic Chris has performed on his behalf is customer Steven, who can't wait 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 is 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.
01:48When you lift that lid up there, you've got tons of secret storage. Oh yeah.
01:55Bad boy horn. Full air ride seats, custom center console. You've got an all component stereo system. It's going to sound like you're in a concert hall.
02:03And by the way, I don't know if you ever got to blow up your beach toys or you got a flat or quads down on air.
02:10You always got 10 gallons of air on your truck with an auxiliary air hookup. That's nice.
02:16The really cool thing about this right now, there's one in the world. Cheers.
02:22All of Chris's builds are unique, but as well as size, they all have power, speed, and smoothness of ride in common.
02:29We're going to look at a red 4x4 4-door pickup that's an extreme, and it's 22 and a half 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 6 in height.
02:45So that's going to be a Cummings ISV, 350 horsepower, 950 foot-pounds of torque.
02:52The transmission is going to be a digital 6-speed push-button Allison, which is a 3200 series RDS, which it handles 1,695 foot-pounds of torque.
03:03Through a Kelderman system, we've got no springs in our trucks. We have full air ride suspensions front and rear.
03:10All these trucks pull 25,000 pounds. They get 13 miles at a gallon, and they'll do 100 mile an hour in a heartbeat.
03:20As huge as it is, this isn't even the biggest truck that Chris makes.
03:25The biggest truck is a 6-door 4x4 pickup truck. It's 27 feet long. It's 100 inches wide. 9 to 10 feet tall, depending on the tire package.
03:36The huge pickup trucks certainly stand out, alongside vehicles of more standard proportions.
03:42It's just a dream come true, though. If you've got the time and the money, you know, it's something I would like to do.
03:49And 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 to build it for them and knowing that it's such a quality product.