Shop Profile:

Car Craft Truck Works & Elizabeth Truck Center

Notable builds/trucks: Mayhem, Hillwick 66, The Beast, Punisher

Location: Elizabethtown, N.J., and Staten Island, N.Y.

Phone Number: (908) 355-8800

Car Craft Truck Works began as a heavy truck collision shop in 1976 in a 6,000 sq. ft. facility in Brooklyn. Today, the Car Craft crew operates in a 60,000 sq. ft. facility – and that only accounts for one of its locations.

Up the road, in Elizabethtown, N.J., sister company Elizabeth Truck Center works on a two-acre (soon to be six-acre) facility in the heart of the central Jersey trucking hub.

Elizbaeth Truck Center opened in 1997 after brothers Anthony and Steven Pesce joined their father, Steve Sr., as the company’s co-owners.

Pesce says shortly after, the shops got into the rising popularity of custom parts and installations. They started selling chrome accessories in the early 2000s, which “automatically seemed to push us into custom fabrications and custom everything else,” Anthony Pesce says.

Both shops essentially do the same work, repairing heavy truck after severe hits and collisions, installing custom touches and building custom trucks.

“First and foremost, we specialize in the heavy truck collision repair work,” Pesce says. “Not far behind that – anything that’s super custom. That’s what we like to say we’re real talented at, anything that needs a phenomenal fit and finish.”

Custom fabrication

Complete custom builds

Hillwick '66