Elizabeth Truck Center

Shop Profile: Elizabeth Truck Center

- August 24, 2010

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 ...

Creating Mayhem

- February 23, 2010

Jersey isn’t the first place one would think of being a hotbed for customizing trucks. Gangsters ripping them off and hijacking their loads? Sure. But truck dealerships ripping a new rig apart and transforming what was once ordinary into an extraordinary work of rolling artisanship and craftsmanship? Fuhgetaboutit. That is unless you're thinking pure Mayhem...

KW Door Window Visor How-To

- November 09, 2009

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Do-It-Yourself Custom KW Door Window Trim Give your Kenworth’s cab the chopped look by adding upper window trim panels A popular customizing trend  among KW owners is adding a painted trim piece to the top of the door window frame to give  the cab a chopped look. The trim fits along the door lip at the top of window without interrupting the window operation and there are a number of aftermarket stainless offerings available. (Prices range from $90-$120 pair.) But if you are ...