The names behind the cars
Who actually builds them
The owner gets the photograph. The shop does the work. These are the builders whose names come up again and again across the log, and the lane each one lives in.
| Shop | Base | Lane |
|---|---|---|
West Coast Customs | Burbank, CA | The famous one. Bieber's chrome Fisker, Shaq's Superman Escalade and Jeep, Chris Brown's El Toro, Travis Scott's Urus. Television first, wide range, big names. |
Mansory | Brand, Germany | Carbon widebody kits for Lamborghini, Rolls-Royce and Bentley. Supplies the parts other shops fit: Travis Scott's Urus, Shaq's Phantom, McGregor's Dawn. |
Car Effex | Sewell, NJ | Michael Layton, running since 2002. Owns the anime graphics lane through Lil Uzi Vert, plus Eagles players Fletcher Cox, DeSean Jackson and Carson Wentz. |
Dreamworks Motorsports | Roxboro, NC | The athletes' shop. OBJ's Cullinan, LaMelo Ball's Cybertruck and Hummers, Zion Williamson's Raptor, John Wall's G-Wagen. Wraps, wheels, audio, sculpture. |
SpeedKore Performance | Grafton, WI | Carbon fiber bodywork on American muscle. Kevin Hart's Hellraiser Charger, and the shop behind several Vin Diesel cars. |
Salvaggio Design | Port Washington, WI | Show winning restomods. Built Kevin Hart's Michael Myers Road Runner to Goodguys Muscle Machine of the Year. |
Timeless Kustoms | Camarillo, CA | Chassis up muscle car builds on Art Morrison frames. Kevin Hart's Darkness Chevelle and Bad News Camaro. |
Detroit Speed | Mooresville, NC | Suspension and chassis engineering that ends up under half the serious restomods here. Built Kevin Hart's Droppa GTO outright. |
Big Slice | Los Angeles, CA | Snoop Dogg's builder. Metallic candy, wire wheels, hydraulics, hand painted trunk murals. The lowrider tradition done properly. |
JC Customz | Bellflower, CA | Painted Chris Brown's Nike inspired camo Aventador, the one that got argued about for a year. |
Brabus | Bottrop, Germany | Mercedes tuning house doing complete vehicles now. Drake's 900 hp Crawler is a factory built ultra limited machine, not an aftermarket job. |
Mercedes MANUFAKTUR | Affalterbach, Germany | The factory's own bespoke arm. Where LeBron got the Maybach badge swapped for his initials, the thing no aftermarket shop can authorize. |
Compiled August 2026 from published reporting: Complex, autoevolution, The Drive, Hypebeast, HotCars, SlashGear, Newsweek, ESPN, CBS Sports, Rolling Stone, duPont Registry, Dreamworks Motorsports and the shops' own releases. Costs are as reported and rarely audited.