Name: Texas Metal's Loud and Lifted
Uploaded: 2025-05-01T02:47:34.000Z
Description: While Bill Carlton is still the reigning champion in Texas' custom truck world, some up-and-coming shops on the Northside of Houston are trying to make their name with a new generation of jaw-dropping monster machines.

While Bill Carlton is still the reigning champion in Texas' custom truck world, some up-and-coming shops on the Northside of Houston are trying to make their name with a new generation of jaw-dropping monster machines.

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1 Way Diesel Performance builds a 1979 Little Red Express from a Cummins diesel on out, including compound turbos. Down the block from Ekstensive, the father-son team at Wide Open Garage builds a Samurai lake crosser from the ground up.

Diesel Little Red Express

The father-son team at Wide Open Garage has their hands full converting a rusted shell of a Suzuki Samurai into a rock-crawling mega-truck. A customer arrives at Mod Mafia with a big problem: their Jeep Gladiator with a Hellcat engine isn't safe to drive.

Samurai and the Gladiator

Mod Mafia transforms a fire-damaged M1038 Humvee ambulance into an extreme camping overlander. The Wide Open Garage team builds a bulletproof race car for the appropriately billed Death Car Race, in which drivers are blindfolded.

Humvee Overlander

1 Way Diesel Performance gets their fair share of extraordinary build requests. So no one is surprised when a little request about a '47 Ford truck becomes their next ground-up build. Mod Mafia jumps into uncharted territory with a Viper ACRX race car.

'47 Ford Turbo

1 Way Diesel Performance is about to find out what happens if you put a Cummins diesel engine into a 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo. A customer wants Wide Open Garage to turn an old, rusted Chevy truck into a lifted, all-terrain truck on huge 74-inch tires.

Fishing, Hunting Chevy Truck

Putting a twin-turbo Cummins into a 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo is a monster build unlike any other for 1 Way Diesel Performance. YouTube's "Unspeakable" star Nathan Graham asks Mod Mafia to help him out of a jam with his all-terrain, amphibious SHERP.

Cummins Diesel in a Lambo

The 1991 Land Rover Defender is known for ruggedness and simplicity. Mod Mafia does a reboot of a tired, old Defender with modern performance, power and custom luxury. Wide Open Garage takes an old-school Bronco monster truck into overdrive.

Defender and Bronco

Social media star Liver King not only wants Mod Mafia to beef up his prized 2001 H1 Hummer's performance, he wants to customize it for his primal lifestyle. The team at Wide Open Garage is asked to build a custom off-road truck completely from scratch.

Hummer H1 King

Wide Open Garage's mega-truck build gets even bigger as they take an old-school '82 C10 square body and create a one-of-one show truck/monster truck. 1 Way Diesel Performance lives up to their name by giving an '88 Silverado more than 1,200 horsepower.

Big '88 Silverado, '82 C10

1 Way Diesel Performance is thrown a mega-curveball with a classic '48 Dodge Power Wagon. In a race pitting garage vs. garage, a 2,700hp diesel truck hits the line against a turbocharged first-generation Camaro.

Texas Metal's Loud and Lifted

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