Davis Brothers Designs "Lessons Learned" at MATS 2024

[Applause] we're here at the 2024 Mid America truck show standing in front of a a person that is familiar to a lot of folks uh may not need an introduction but for the people that just don't know you just yet uh what's your name and uh what do you guys do hi I'm Brian Davis with Davis brothers and uh we're truck builders out of Owensville Indiana and we also run a trucking Fleet and we grain Farm as well very versatile uh so tell us about the truck that we're in front of in in front of and why it's here at the mid- americ truck show well it's kind of a long story it's a 2024 389 Peter Built that uh we ended up in the uh truck buildoff with we really had no intentions of being in the buildoff this year uh we were going to put a truck together to put on a Mac new Mac step deck and maybe just hit a few shows as a display this year and anyway through some different talks they they roped us into the I shouldn't say rope but uh got us in this yeah well the race is on uh let's take a look at uh what you guys have done let's start uh let's turn right around and start from the start from the inside of the the hood here and work ourselves back well we uh one of the notes you might want to see in the Hood the Hood's been skinned on the inside to be uh slick on the sides kind of covers up your wishbones in there and slicks that all out just gives you a nice look when the Hood's up sold the uh I don't know if that's a cavalar type material we sewn up around our Springs to keep them from rubbing inside of our hood and of course painted all the ribbets and fenders insides and we put a 12 gauge 379 style Hood cap on the truck very nice actually when we started building the truck I said we're not going to do much of anything to our engine guys I'm like you know we're going to drive the truck we're going to use the truck so we'll just clean it up a little bit and uh so we we went a little bit further than what we intended with the engine on it okay what have you done well of course pulled the engine and painted the Viper red to match the uh the truck and uh of course added several chrome parts Painted our valve cover up and the valve cover the cummin looks like wood which mates the uh the dash in the truck and uh we moved several things off our firewall and pulled our stripes across the firewall uh as well so we we moved some things around there to just clean that up and then straightened up all of our wiring it's usually messy down there in that driver side bottom corner of the dash or the firewall rather so everything has been totally untangled and wrapped and you know looks pretty well as neat as we could get it uh who uh visor lights and stocks you have there well the visor is um again 12 gauge and then we went with the school bus windshields with the Chrome Locker rings and the truck actually has school bus glass and all the way around it the windshield Shields the side windows and the sleeper windows are all School Bus glass interesting now was that uh hard to do in terms of well it Wasing that yeah it wasn't the funnest in the world uh it was pretty challenging honestly the sleeper Windows weren't too bad once we redone the frames for them and made them uh where we could put get that in there like that to match the windshield the side windows that glass is about a 30 seconds thicker than the factory glass which doesn't sound like much but the way that it comes up the tracks in there the width is extremely critical to make that window come up and down uh smooth as it should like a factory window okay let's check out the front and back of these breathers whose lights are those these are the new legendary lights that for States put out and the the the lights are all Glass Lens every every light on the truck is is a Glass Lens light and uh we thought that was kind of important you know just kind of get that you know little bit of an odor authentic clean look mhm and they they throw you know the patterns that come off those glass lenses seem to be quite a bit better than the plastic we in the shop we tested both and and there was definitely a difference between the the plastic and the glass lenses so was that a scientific test or was it just hook them up and see what kind of pattern they show yeah basically you just hold them down close to the floor to concrete shut the lights off and see the air cleaners we of course made them strapless and we chop our to own tops down in the shop you know UNT the tops and cut them down and then TIG them back together so we can go whatever height that you would like mhm these are fairly low but uh I done a little bit of math to figure out how much air space we had in there and we should have plenty okay very nice let's talk about the step box yeah so the step box there is a has been pleaded the stainless in has been pleated the the step the step plates we make inhouse and had chromed and um so we want the pleated look because the the rear fenders that you will see in a bit are uh there is pleated as well and so we had the stainless pleated MH and then you send the stainless down and hold belt punched them after they were pleated to give you that nice and it's a subtle pleat it's not a real deep pleat it just as you can see on the air tank there it gives you a real nice effect shining on there gives you some nice patterns as it shines up on the air tank all right let's move on back toward the back of the truck so the uh fuel tanks we didn't the fuel tanks have been smoo all the welds have been smoothed off the fuel tanks to give it the nice clean round look the fuel caps um we made new fuel caps for it had them Chrome so those fuel caps we have our emblem in there but we can make them with any one's emblem or or basically any design around the outside and we made the fuel caps to where on the standard Peter belt you've got three or four positions that they have to be in and these fuel caps you can clock them any way that you want to clock them so that the you know you're tabed so the truck logo is straight down on both sides that's cool but you could you could clock them straight back or however you want to clock them cool so we done that um on the fuel tanks and then our our light bars front and rear re as you can see they're double-sided all the way up through there nice and so that covers all your wiring keeps you know everything looking super clean no no uh Loom to mess with or any of that plus we put lights on the back so it gives it a great underglow under the cab and like I say the fronts and Rears we plated the bottom of the sleeper uh so that it's nice and clean and so the bottom of the sleeper the bottom of the cab is all painted just like the outside of the truck ni and we lined up our rivet lines on the the panel on the bottom of the sleeper to keep just like the outside of the truck we kept the same rivet lines running across very nice and forwards on that um custom shock box shock box is Iowa custom bag covers Iowa Customs uh the paint on the truck it I thought about the colors for a long time and and what we were going to do there and how I wanted it to look and there's seven colors it's a seven color paint job and of course the the stripes run through the door jams all the way to the inside and around the back of the jams actually so we spent quite a lot of time on the on the paint making sure where our Stripes ran through every bit of it and what's impressive is even running the stripes over that would be a a cap yeah so we we came up with these uh abil cap to cover these uh rivet collars okay so on a 70 in Peter belt you know you always see the rivet collar collars up the back of these and so like right here we we striped right across the one actually our painter striped that off the truck and he's pretty good job of making that line up but absolutely so those caps are buet and they're machined to fit those collars perfectly so we just put a drop of adhesive in the bottom and snap them on and it just really cleans up those those collars and and uh allows you if you have a stripe hit some or whatever to carry that right on through it's really a touch we come up with the CBN ten Mount that your coax doesn't show um so your coax is all encased in there and it just you know is a mount for your CV antenna to come out of gives it a nice clean look yeah definitely on this the 70 in the way we done our lights we had to scoot that back an inch so our antenna wouldn't hit our light so that model there is a little bit deeper plus it's the back of it is that's it's a 5° angle on the back of that sleeper so that had to lay back 5° to make the antenna stick straight up you know instead of having your antenna leaning in it sticks straight up very nice so I mean I I used the term scientific earlier just jokingly but you guys put a lot of thought into some of the things and how it actually works and going down the road and how it's going to be uh oriented uh as as a truck is in motion yeah we pretty well I mean any trucks that we build that are show trucks even it's a buildoff truck or not we fully intend to use the trucks and and and fact you know we brought this truck over pulling a trailer and loaded mhm and uh we'll go right on with the work every everything you see on the truck is paint there is not a zero vinyl anywhere any and everything is paint very nice um as far as lettering or striping goes um just something we thought was important you know and the um if you can get a shot of the belly pan in the truck is a all the uh all of the mounting for that belly pan is hidden and it it hides the eye panel mounting and the drop panel in front of the the tandems hides all the mounting for them as well so it's all pretty seamless we made suspension stops for the uh fenders that uh you know a lot of times guys just add a uh you know you'll add a piece of pipe or whatever they send you on the bottom of your factory Peter Built suspension Mount MH and we didn't think that was real clean so we uh machined those out and made them the right Heights mhm you know for for your fenders and they worked out pretty well we we really kind of had a guess the first attempt at it and it worked out great well that's cool so now like that goes into your repertoire because I was going to ask some of the changes that you guys make it's because you've gone through it on another build and you're like automatically well let's do this for this or yeah yeah absolutely yeah we I built several of them and and that helps in the in the uh time that it takes to build one and kind of what to do and directions to go and that type of thing the fifth wheel we took the had a slider on it from the factory and um so I bought a set of weld on legs which they're really hard to find Holland still they no longer sell weld on legs so I found a parts house that still had a few sets in stock and I bought them so it's it makes it a little easier to make a fifth wheel setup like that to where you're it's super clean under your under your fifth wheel and we painted the bottom of our aluminum fifth wheel and everything just to you know have a nice clean look and make it easy to clean up ni we capped the back of the frame in on it um to meet up you know so our deck plate seems pretty seamless and there's no bolts back there no no no longer any bolts or anything back there to again just for clean lines mhm absolutely now that we're back here at the trailer let's talk about the trailer well the trailer is a 2024 Mac uh Low Pro step deck and uh we had it built we haul a lot of farm equipment and it's it's basically built specialized for hauling Planters uh we haul a lot of Planters and so this is a trailers that we use and we worked with mac and they built us this trailer and uh they sent a lot of the uh components for the trailer out had them buffed and then buil put the trailer together so like down the center here we got this center strip that's where you would normally have a couple of nailers M pretty much everything we huls on tires and on the outsides of our trailer or we're hauling the duels and extra tires for tractors and combines and things and they lay they lay right across there so it's not a problem for us to have that running down the center of our trailer right nice M added the lights in the step here for us TR we changed all the lights on the truck trailer over to Glass to match we paneled the bottom of the trailer off we had the trailer built they built it for us with all tubes in the floor instead of C bracing so that it strengthened the trailer and we didn't have to have any knee braces that way uh we didn't have any of that to work around as we was building the trailer to customize the the bottoms of it to so we put a light every crossmember down through the trailer so I think there's 30 30 lights shining down on each side of the trailer gives it a nice even underglow of course we added quite a lot of of uh stereo to the truck and trailer both and we put the axle covers on made those axle front covers and they'll fit pretty well any Mac front end that I've looked at as far as the the uh bracing on the front of the the Mac axles and we Capp the behind the rear axle there to Carri that onto the back now when you guys are working on this did you have this uh trailer elevated or yes we ra we we blocked it up in the shop 16 in higher than it's sitting now all right cuz I was going to say that' be a challenge not a challenge but oh it was definitely a challenge yeah to to get things underneath it we had to uh in so in between the frame rails of the trailer they built it for us where there is just basically a wall between the the the rails mhm every 60 I think it's 60 and 3/4 in so that give us basically a space that was excuse me about 40 44 in wide and about 60 in long and okay and uh about 16 in tall okay because we we put four subboxes in each one in each opening and they built it for us like that and they just fit right in there like a glove so you can't see them CU they're hidden up between the frame rails of the trailer oh um I had heard somebody someone say look for the death tank on this truck and I believe that might be on the other side yeah so we've done the DEA you know hid the de tanks before M uh and we done it with a bolting to the to the uh frame bracket but now we done it with straps this time mhm so again just details and this tank here striped it all the stripes follow it right across we made this this bellet mount to mount that to where um you know just a it's a nice detail without putting a firewall cover on it absolutely because of the fact that uh they're kind of a pain in the butt when you go to run your trucks and if you have them covered and you need to work on your air conditioning system or that kind of thing it's uh it's kind of a hassle so we decided to go the non firewall cover route which is nothing wrong with Fireball covers I like the look of them it's but it can be hard to deal with once you get running the truck that makes sense because again it's got to be functional um so I'm going to go back to look at this tank here and then I'll ask you to to shut the hood so we can get a look at the truck as a whole yeah so the tank so the tank you we we moved the the tank the the dep tank it has to go down and back to get a to get your tank over it m but uh at that point usually the neck sticks through the tank M so we chopped the the uh brackets for the death tank down even further and got all we could get and smashed it back against the frame as far as we could get so that we could um try to get that neck in there and then we machined a build a cap to go on there that just kind of ends up being flush with the tank and uh we put that that little slot in there you stick a quarter in there and a quarter fits perfectly and it turns and comes right out of there awesome so so it just just kind to clean that up where you don't have that blue cap sticking out we didn't want to draw any attention to where that cap was at because you're really trying to make it go away right you know right and I when I walked around the truck to begin with never noticed it and even you can almost say that that cap is for anything yes and and someone will think yeah well this could be for anything yes so it works pretty well it it was they're they're kind of hard to get in there and for the guys that have done that job know what I mean they it's everything's got to be lined up just perfect for that tank to slide in there and then get up in the fuel tank Mountains and the Saddles so it's uh that can be a little trying M to say the least yeah let's have a look at the truck with the hood down all right very nice thank you so we had all of the uh course we're running the factory Peterbilt Fender guards or steps or whatever you want to call them Fender mounts there's Everyone likes to use a different term but we took those off and had them chromed and we had our J&J Hooks chromed and and went several parts of the truck chromed just makes it a hell of a lot easier if you're especially if you're doing much showing MH to keep those Services looking good and and uh even if you're not showing you know just wipe them off and they they always look good MH I like that there's two colors of pinstripe right here on the very edge of the fender yeah so uh Darren Bean out of Mao Kentucky does all of our hand lettering and striping and uh he does a really good job he's some of the folks I'm sure know Darren he's been around the truck show scene for many years and he's pretty amazing he puts a center line down and starts in starts in you know and there's not many of those guys left that can do that with that kind of quality and he in fact striped all the way down the deck plate and that stripe down the middle of the trailer is also striped all the way he crawled down that whole trailer and striped that thing so wow and it didn't take him that long he it's pretty amazing you know no templates or you is down through their freehanding it very cool it's quite a talent that's getting lost absolutely can we move it into the inside yes all right so as a camera goes in here tell us what we're looking at so this is our uh idea of an old bar I just kind of had this idea that I wanted to build one that just kind of looked like an old bar and as it started coming together I was like yeah it definitely looks like the inside of a 1970s uh I don't know maybe a camper or something uhuh but uh so I first came around the ideas of the old Fender Tweed guitar amps M on the doors as basically a speaker cover are just to make it look like when you're inside you know that uh the band's got some some old Fender amps sitting there and uh so we bought all the stuff to basically restore an old Fender Tweed amp and Kevin made those uh made those authentic looking amps the right thickness and the right you know height and width that we needed to fit the door panel so we made those just you know inh house we that's cool made those to to fit and they light up and the speakers you know lights the girl up but the speakers are inside of them and the switch on the the switch on there the volume knob you turn it on and it actually turns a lot of your interior lights on inside the truck so it's actually functioning and the the lights on the amps for like an old tube amp you know always had the the jewels on them and we got those on there and they light up and and so we started out with that and then we moved on to the dash and uh I wanted to build a dash that kind of represented an old juk box and so I came up with that bit of a you know that type of design to put on the truck and uh Darren air brushed it up to look like wood and we put a matte clear coat over that the dash is totally aluminum from you know the full Dash is totally aluminum and uh handbuilt aluminum so we made that to you know have that look and with the new trucks with the electronic Dash you have the you know steering wheel controls in the steering wheel MH that well they really don't have a good answer for yet I don't know maybe we'll see one here at the show that somebody's come out with aftermarket steering wheel but we went ahead and moved our steering wheel controls into our Dash they're right above all the switches okay and so that allowed us to put an aftermarket steering wheel on and we wrapped it in the same leather as the rest of the truck of course and the doors we slick the doors out and put like 05 379 openers and our doors and door Toops on and then we moved all of our window controls and everything up into the overhead so your your door locks your your mirror controls um and your windows that is that's all right there in the overhead so basically you're going to be reaching for the wrong direction to actually let the window down and vice versa what's that you be reaching in the wrong direction the let the window down and you have to tell yourself the controls are up yeah you have to tell yourself the controls are on the overhead and not on the doors so that is yeah that's something you got to get used to but when I drove the truck over to Louisville I I uh didn't have much trouble remembering that they were up there work works great cool tell us about these seats so the seats are uh the whole in side of the truck is like a distressed leather and I wasn't real sure of how you you know how leather came came whenever we started this build never bought a lot of genuine leather so you buy it by the hide and we ended up buying 12 cow hides to do this full interior and four hair on hide which comes off of small cows mhm and we bought four hair on hide and 12 full hides and that was something I learned didn't realize you know and so I'd always I'd had this idea several years ago to make these seats that uh basically are floating mhm to where when you open the door and you look in the truck you just look right underneath the seats cuz they were you know the judges always digging under your seats and things so um we developed this this mounting system to mount those seats where it's just slick right across the floor and so a lot of people look in there and are like what what they don't they can't they have to stick their hand under there to prove that there's not a base but the seat belts and everything are still on them they're still fully functioning in fact they bolt in where your factory seat would bolt in right but uh you know the floor continuous over that okay and the floor we we wasn't sure what we was going to do with the floor on this truck and one morning early I got out of bed and I I had this thought and I called Kevin I said man I think I got the floor now we wanted to do wood to get you know the leather and the wood and all the old look of of an old bar right and uh I said man we need to if we could put wood in there and have Neon Lights running through the floor but encased in the floor where you can walk on it and use it and and he said how you going to do that I said well here's what I'm thinking and uh so he got to working on that process and uh made the floors and put them in and the sleeper floor matches the driver floor and all the lights run straight through you know they line up the sleeper lights line up with the front you know so when you're sitting in the back on the couch all the lines run straight through gives you a really cool effect and it also has a really neat effect with the seats not having bases on them but when you look in the cab you know it gives you a real nice effect as you're looking in there yeah awesome that that sounds amazing we'll go and have a closer look into the sleeper Let's uh have a look at the passenger side okay so the passenger side is of course done one thing I wanted to point out was that throttle base we um come up that throttle base you know normally they're just a black piece of of metal that's bent up and you just paint them or whatever but we built that uh Billet throttle base and chromed it this gives you a nice clean look and mounts right down on your floor as well as the brake pedal base is the same way they sit on top of the floor that way you don't have to cut out around them or any anything like that gives you a real nice clean look as well as the bezel around the gear shift we made it match and ched it now when you guys build trucks do you do like a road map as far as what the ideas will be so that way you can actually we kind of do and I it's usually me with a magic marker drawing on a piece of cardboard in the shop I was thinking it's more sophisticated like a whiteboard and no it's it's not at all I I uh I drew what I thought that Dash should look like on a piece of cardboard in the shop one night and said it's going to be kind of like this in my head and uh I'm pretty amazed when the guys were able to to uh get it basically to come out exactly as I had wanted it to look that's cool may be afraid that the cardboard would disappear somehow somebody's taken out the trash and they threw away all of the designs and everything well you know there's really no measurements or anything on there so you got to redraw it it's not a big uh all right cool it's not the end of the world by any means cool let's uh get up in there and uh take a look at the sleeper all right so Brian uh this looks amazing uh tell us about what we're looking at right here on the right side of you okay so we started this we started out with a with a Peter belt 70-in sleeper and um you know a lot of guys are familiar with what they called the bed and breakfast sleeper uh Peter belt had a 70-in bnk with a right-and front door and uh I thought several years ago I thought you know be kind of cool to take one of those and and uh put a left door in it we didn't start out with a bed and breakfast we we actually took this bunk all the way down to the floor reskinned it put a new top on it and added the the front doors on both sides gives you a nice nice open area and um you know have the idea of of the couch and the with the armrest and and so those doors open up and makes it show nice and gives you a nice open feeling in here made these these uh armrest here and we used the the glass the real glass 1in bevel glass to run run the corners just kind of gives you that funk look you know and abolutely has the uh the bump rail kind of like a bar Edge yeah here and then a wooden top and once we got going on it we uh I said man we need some ashtrays in there if you going to be a bar you know so we got a set of ashtrays that sit down in the in the cup holders and and had to get the you know it's kind of they don't sell many Amber Crystal amber colored ashtrays anymore so took a minute to find those and again we got what looks like a base like a fender base amp cab on the rear doors back here again which is housing 777s on there so um and then the we put the couch in and and got the three seat with the heroin hide inlays in it and uh got this nice grill cover down here that lights up underneath the couch that just kind of blocks that off and then there's four Subs um under the couch and then of course since there was room above our heads to give us a nice place to mount our reading lights and our red lights that we we uh got another four box up here with highs and mids on the ends and then of course the speaker covers on there again as well we uh we around the shop we kind of took votes on what the truck was going to be named or different things and there was kind of a tie between the lessons learned and the the Larry Fleet song where I find God so we we we thought a better place to put that on than on the back wall of the couch um we added the two 24-in televisions one in each Corner Grandpa there so that we could um we could uh watch whatever we want on the television as well so this week I've been uh bringing up the uh March Madness on those telephones and nice but on the telephones a telephone sorry gosh lack of sleep from building this truck absolutely on the televisions but uh then the the John Deere neon signs there's nothing better than Bush light of course anybody that knows us knows from from the shows that we're pretty fond of our Bush light Bush lattes and uh we haul a lot of John Deere equipment of course use John Deere our so uh what better than you know what better to put in the in the truck than that to just kind of give you that uh the cool feel you know yeah with all the leather and the wood and and then again you can see the neon uh lights in the floor and how they line up and it's pretty pretty slick look absolutely so now the camera's looking uh forward obviously toward the uh Dash and we can get a nice squared off view of the dash so tell us a bit more about this well again you know they come out this concept of of making that look like an old juk box and then we also of course needed to incorporate the the Peterbilt electronic screen so um made that all fit and mount just like it does in a factory truck and that was uh of course not just the easiest thing in the world to do but U Kevin worked on that got it in there and a a place near us that does uh basically builds custom hoods for pulling tractors and different things mhm are the ones that handcrafted the the shell of the dash so built a jig off the factory Dash and then uh started building it and uh man it it turned out great we we were really happy with it and you know gives the truck a cool look totally transformed this whole area the whole dash area from the from the top to the bottom it is no longer a Peter Built Dash no so the the we were able to use the left kick panel uh because the dash was built close enough to the dimensions and then the rest of the under dash was had to be handmade as well and of course the top of the gear shift the corn cob on top of the gear shift I'm seeing sure a lot of people seen it through local bars you know that's your bush Light Beer tap top and the overhead of course uh covered the overhead with the distressed leather and put our CB and stereo and everything surface mounted in there and moved our seat or mic plug in down to the lower part of the dash as well is that the oh I see it there yeah the headliners in the truck were are or a brown suede kind of like a I wanted something like they used like in the 80s and Chevrolet pickups or something and that's kind of what that is now we had to make our own headliner into the sleeper because um you know you got to pretty well build your own because typically almost every sleeper has closets in the front corners of the sleeper so that was a bit of a challenge to figure out how to build that in and make that look right um you know with no closets there or anything and and but it came together and we got it curved and he Kevin steamed the the backboard and got it to make that curve just right so we were pretty happy with the with how it looked once we got it all in we didn't want to leave any voids so we basically um upholstered the ho inside and then added everything so we had no voids or anything in our interior work absolutely so one one of the questions I'm going to jump to how long did it take well the truck the truck was built in November of 23 mhm and um we didn't receive the truck until somewhere in the neighborhood of the 10th of December and we got started on it basically around the 15th of December M and uh we received the trailer uh we picked it up at M trailer the 9th of January mhm and um so we didn't get started on it till like the 11th or so so basically from from that point till about uh 15 minutes before we left Sunday to come to Matts so we worked uh a lot of our guys only had the Super Bowl Sunday off since uh the first of the year after we come into the New Year got through the holidays there we decided that we were going to have to go seven days a week so that's basically what it took to get it here that is cool that is very amazing it's it's it's amazing you guys done an excellent job there's no part of this truck that has not been addressed in terms of how the the fit and finishes and I can see the back of the the seat bases yes like you're saying yeah you get you get to look at them there we built the built the stainless pieces there to basically we wanted those to be stainless so they give you a reflective quality cuz it it really helps the illusion when you look in here and look under there cuz they're reflecting the lights they're reflecting the floor they're reflecting a bit of the seat you know and gives you a a nice illusion of how in the world are those seats mounted you know yeah for sure we've been asked a lot exactly how it's done but we don't want to tell everything we know yeah absolutely tra secrets so um last question what other how many different processes did you guys learn how to do when when building this truck well you know I I don't know that we necessarily learned any new processes we definitely learned how to execute some better okay um I guess maybe there was a there there might have been a couple but um we you know we the only thing we don't do in house is Stitch we don't have a sewing machine okay but um you know we made a the majority of the uh the backing you know the patterns and the backing for the upholstery we made all those and then our upholstery guy would Stitch It Up send it over we would glue it down to the panels put the the uh retaining trees in them and and mount them ourselves so most of pretty well everything was D the you know our pulser guy he would cut it to shape and Stitch it okay and then we would glue it down if there need to be any Injustice trim the edges and and that type of thing but you know outside of that pretty much everything is done at our place uh we have a a neighbor some neighbors of Smith brothers that are wonderful wonderful machinist and so we come up with a lot of these little ideas you know like the trim work on the on the Juke Box there you know we didn't think about that thought well you know we need some trim work on there so you call them they come down yeah yeah I got your idea and they machine it out and they're back in an hour and here's your part you know so that's a that's a great thing and they enjoy working on the trucks with us and and helping with ideas and helping with Machining work and so there was a lot of machined Parts on this truck you know whether it be the pedals or that trim work or the CB mount or the fuel caps or the uh rivet covers or the throttle base M you know um and I'm I'm forgetting many more machined Parts but uh a lot of oneoff custom machine parts I mean the base for that corn cob there for that beer tap you know was remachined and made to fit the the diameter of the of the uh corn and to have the right threads in it to thread it and thread the gear shift and you know so Parts like that are are what we have to uh an advantage that on that you know we think it up and and tell them what we're more wanting machined and they machine it and we get it back and send it to our chromer and you got nice Parts yeah that's that's great we did not talk about the sound system we saw speakers outside and we see speakers in here what's some of the the info on the so um you know we've done a lot of stereo systems and and are kind of known for the big stereo systems on the trucks and uh we on this particular build was in contact with JL Audio and and now have a deal with JL Audio for the next 18 months as a u brand ambassador for them and they've got several shows they want us to take this truck to so but yeah it uh we're running uh 2 4 2 4 6 8 16 um 18 20 22 24 26 26 7.7 in the cab of the truck and um which is a jail marine sound um and we're running eight JL um 12 12 w7s inside and then on the trailer we have uh 28 8.8 jl's down under those panels under the trailer and then down below and in between the rails we're running 16 13 w7s and we're running those on two 12ks and we're running uh 8K on the uh 8 12 w7s in here and then of course multiples of um 800x fours to run all the uh high and mids so it's U it's a very very large system we're running 32 batteries on this truck je and um we have all on board you all on board Chargers smart Chargers that are all hooked in we've got an onboard generator on our up in the Box in the trailer that so when we're to show at night a lot of the guys you know we bring in a charger or whatever and a small generator and hook them to the truck to charge the batteries overnight or whatever MH so we were always doing that and it's really frankly kind of a pain in the butts right when you're want to go home so I had the idea of just kind of incorporating that to the truck and my brother said man that's a great idea you know so we get done at the end of the evening now we fire that thing off and you know uh go to bed and next morning we come in and we're charged up and we're ready to show for the next day that's cool so and we've got like I said we've got some events for them going into early 25 so till about June of 25 and then once that those obligations are over then we'll put the truck on the road so that's basically why we built the truck the way we did and we didn't shave or cut anything that made the truck non doot mhm um that was something that uh I wanted to do for myself and and uh basically and for the buildoff you know I just but I want to be able to use it so that's why we pulled a trailer and loaded it you know we wanted everybody to know that our truck was uh you know and there was a lot of little Riff Raff going around on the social medias about how these buildoff trucks were all going to be trailer queens that everybody hauled around and and uh not something that was completely unusable and they're like what what why do we even want to look at that and you know I I get their point and I think you know there there is a few of them here um and not picking them they're great trucks that's just not I'm a truck guy I like trucks you know if I if I want to look at Hot Rods I go to hot rod show right so you know I mean and that's just my opinion that doesn't doesn't take away from anything anyone else is doing MH so but that's why our truck's built the way it is MHM very cool now uh can I ask a a burning question that some others may have um it may be uh an answer that some guys avoid but somebody somewhere is going to want to know a price range on this build um you know I don't I don't really honestly at this point I don't really have a price range on it because of the fact that we built build a truck in house and do so much of the work ourselves of a raw cost versus someone that's paying shop rate to get it done that is true um you know uh I can tell you that uh you know the you talking truck and trailer sure why not you know the truck's uh 240,000 new and the trailer's 100 so there's a 340,000 and I think it's pretty safe to say that uh we've got another 175 in it at at our cost MH but um you know it's a lot it's a lot you know and and uh I think that's that's why we got to show them for a year and and see if we can get something back out of them yeah absolutely that's a great thing you know you can recoup and look good and still have a great looking uh vehicle that represents the company while you while you're doing that yeah we're you know we're uh we're thankful to be in the place we're in and and uh have the the free that we've got and we work hard at it and we try to keep our trucks looking as best as we can you know they're not always all perfect all the time but that's uh we got to work you know absolutely well um Brian thanks for taking some time here on a Wednesday afternoon to to really go through this truck from front to back and I hope the viewers enjoy being able to see this real nice up close look at what you've done well we sure appreciate you coming over and giving us the opportunity and I hope as well people enjoy it as well I know we've enjoyed building it and uh we're we're pretty thankful and proud of our end result and you know we'll see what the folks think over the next few days absolutely all [Applause] [Music] [Applause] right

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Length: 44min 56sec (2696 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 21 2024