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THE BRIEF
The client calls this truck "The Gentleman," and the name fits. It came to us from Houston, Texas around 2017 and has been a long-term build ever since — raw and unashamed to expose it all, from the underside of the chassis to the inside of the bed. This C10 is about as close to a scratch-built truck as a production body gets — roughly 95% hand built. The bed, the chassis, and the engine bay are 100% hand fabricated in house, along with an enormous amount of custom metal shaping across the body. The billet work is all one-off: grille, headlight bezels, tail lights, brass bed strips, valve covers, and more, each cut and finished on our machines. Power is a supercharged LSA built by Don Hardy Race Cars, paired with a Bowler Performance 4L80E. It's a long-term build, but it's going to be worth the wait. Details take time, and this gentleman is willing to wait.
§ 02 — Note from the shop
"Raw and unashamed to expose it all. Details take time — and this gentleman is willing to wait."
§ 03 — Build journal
The updates.
A living log of every meaningful moment on this build — new photos, short notes, and the milestones worth marking.
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Aug 11, 2026
BUILD STORY"The Gentleman" — raw and unashamed to expose it all
This truck belongs to a client in Houston, Texas, and it landed in our shop around 2017. He named it "The Gentleman." It's a long-term build, and it's gonna be worth the wait — every panel, every bracket, and the entire underside are built to be looked at. Bare metal in the sun, brass strips down the bed floor, hand-formed inner fenders and belly panels, and the one-off billet tail lights lit up at the show. Details take time. And this gentleman is willing to wait.
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Aug 10, 2026
METAL SHAPINGAll of it made here — bed, hood, chopped top, engine bay
Every piece of this truck came out of our shop: the 100% scratch-built bed and bed floor, the aluminum hood, the wedge chopped top, the inner fenders, and the engine bay. The bed floor is hand-formed steel with brass strips laid in, and the tailgate, roll pan, and bed sides were all built here rather than bought. The wedge chop tightens the cab down front to rear and changes the whole stance of the truck.
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Aug 1, 2026
PAINT & BODYBodywork wrapped — off to the paint shop
Final mockup shots before the truck headed to the paint shop. Hand-shaped body panels, the fully hand-fabricated bed with brass bed strips, and the one-off billet grille and headlight bezels all in place.
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Chapter by chapter.
Every build is documented as it moves through the shop. Here's how this one came together.
C022Hand-shaped body
Tons of custom metal shaping done in house — panels reworked, gaps tightened, and shapes reworked by hand until the whole truck reads as one continuous surface.
C023Hand-fabricated bed & chassis
The bed, chassis, and engine bay are 100% fabricated in house. Nothing bolted on from a catalog — every rail, floor, and inner structure was built for this truck.
C024One-off billet
Grille, headlight bezels, tail lights, brass bed strips, valve covers, and a long list of smaller details — all machined one-off for this build.
C025Supercharged LSA
A supercharged LSA built by Don Hardy Race Cars, backed by a Bowler Performance 4L80E transmission. The truck is in the paint shop now.
§ 05 — Gallery
Frame by frame.
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