CHRIS: Everyone likes pick ups, this is America!
And we make the ultimate pick up. The Compensator? Yes I've heard of that.
STEPHEN: The bigger the truck, the smaller his package?
CHRIS: I don't think we have many of those,
most of our customers have a purpose for this truck.
COMM: The sky's the limit at Extreme Super Truck,
where one man and his crew build giant trucks as tall as 10 feet high for rappers, kings
and hunters alike. But the ultimate in customisation comes at a price.
CHRIS: These trucks go from $89,000 to approximately a quarter of a million dollars.
And everyone likes big! We got a Big Mac, we got a Whopper, might have a super truck.
COMM: For 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.
CHRIS: The 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. These
are commercial trucks when we buy them and we turn them into, lack of better words, luxury pick ups. This is
how everything starts - we've got a cab, a couple of doors and class seats and rubber floors
and from here we start doing our magic.
COMM: Eager to see what magic Chris has performed
on his behalf is customer Stephen who can't wait to see his new truck for the first time.
STEPHEN: Its big, its black, the rest I really
don't know yet, I had about a 10% input and the rest is up to him, I'm ready to see it.
Oh my god! Look at that! This is nothing what I looked at and its frigging amazing!
CHRIS: When you lift that lid up there you
got tons of secret storage.
STEPHEN: Oh yeah!
CHRIS: Bad boy horn, full air ride seats,
custom centre console, you've got an off opponent stereo system, its going to sound like you're
in a concert hall and by the way I don't know if you've ever go to blow up your beach toys,
or you got a flat, or a quad's down on air you always got 10 gallons of air on your truck
with an exhilarator.
STEPHEN: Thats nice.
CHRIS: The really cool thing about this right now,
there's one in the world, it's yours.
COMM: All of Chris' builds are unique but
as well as size they all have power, speed and smoothness of ride in common.
CHRIS: We're going to look at a red 4x4
4-door pick up. It's an extreme and it's 22 and a half feet long, its just over 15,000lbs.
It's 100 inches wide again and I'd say its about 9ft 6 in height, so that's going to be a Cummings
ISB 350 horse power, 950ft pounds of torque. The transmissions is going to be a digital
6 speed push button analisom, which is a 3200 series RDS which it handles 1,695ft pounds of torque.
Through a Kelderman system, we've got no springs in our trucks we are full air ride suspensions
front and rear. All these trucks pull 25,000lbs, they get 13 miles to the a gallon
and they'll do 100 miles and hour in a heart beat.
COMM: As huge as it is, this isn't even the
biggest truck that Chris makes.
CHRIS: The biggest truck is a 6-door 4x4
pick up truck. It's 27 feet long, it's 100 inches wide, 9 to 10 feet tall depending on the tyre package.
COMM: The huge pick up trucks certainly stand
out alongside vehicles of more standard proportions.
MAN: This is a dream come true.
If you've got the time and the money, it's something I would like to do.
COMM: And Chris is justifiably proud of his bespoke creations.
CHRIS: They 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 it's such
a quality product.