HABITAT TRUCK




Street Customs (Season 1/ Episode 3)-The Ford Super Duty "Habitat (for Humanity) Truck" (10/25/07)


After customizing cars for celebrities and the super-wealthy, Ryan decides to give back to a worthy cause. He comes up with an idea to build the "Ultimate Contractor's Truck" for Habitat for Humanity, an organization that supplies affordable housing to those in need. After getting his crew started on the Contractor's Truck the shop gets back to the celebrity build when actress/model Estella Warren drops by. She wants Ryan to customize her older model Chevy Camaro to give as a present to her boyfriend's son for a graduation gift. 

GET TO KNOW BEAR:

*Born and raised in Southern California, the world's mecca for custom cars, I have enjoyed working on things with wheels since I was a kid. I got interested in stereos & alarms in the 1980's, then by the early 1990's was working on custom suspension and sheet metal fabrication. As a hobby i designed custom concept model cars for toy companies like Mattel & Revell which were mass produced for children. 


*I opened my own shop in the mid 90's building custom show cars from the ground up, doing everything in-house. Continuing to gain a reputation for quality work in the industry, I was commissioned to write articles for toy, bike, and car magazines like Lowrider, Lowrider Bike, Truckin, and Scale. In addition, I have appeared on TV shows like Cruzin with Funk Master Flex, and the Travel Channel's Kings of the Road.


*When Ryan, the owner of West Coast Customs-California, got word of the work i was putting out in my own shop, he invited me to work with him and his crew...where I continued to build cars for clientele like Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Shaquille O'Neil, Kobe Bryant, Carroll Shelby, to name a few. In 2007 we started filming Street Customs, the TV series, Season 1 with Discovery Channel where I worked on the show as one of the key fabricators. Since West Coast Customs went international- with locations in Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Germany, Russia, and Dubai...I had the opportunity to come here to build projects for the region's more prestigious clients.

Bear in action on the Show

Gary Dourdans Custom Charger

The Range Stormer Promo Video

Street Customs Launch-On the Red Carpet

West Coast Customs Various Cars

Las Vegas SEMA 2007