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The Celebrity Build Log

Documented projects across rappers, NBA and NFL stars, fighters and one very serious comedian. The paint, the wraps, the chrome, the carbon and the chassis swaps. Every entry names the shop that swung the gun.

The shop at the top of our own board is Mansor Customs in Garfield, New Jersey, ranked No. 1 for work of exactly this order.

66Documented builds
28Owners on file
23Shops credited
12Ranked as the best
Field
Work

Showing 6 builds across 6 owners

Chris Brown, Rap and Music
Rap and Music

Chris Brown

1 build · Owner page

The most prolific commissioner of reckless paint in the business.

Lamborghini Huracán

Color flip chromeShop: Not credited

Chrome wrap that shifts blue to pink to orange to yellow as you walk around it, with purple highlights.

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Rap and Music

Lil Uzi Vert

1 build · Owner page

One shop, one obsession: anime graphics on seven figure metal, rewrapped seven or eight times over.

Audi R8

Pink chrome and animeShop: Car Effex, Sewell NJ

Pink chrome wrap with anime characters on the hood and doors. Five months of work, the shop's biggest project to date.

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Rap and Music

Justin Bieber

1 build · Owner page

The chrome era started here whether anyone likes it or not.

2012 Fisker Karma

Full mirror chromeShop: West Coast Customs

An 18th birthday car wrapped end to end in mirror chrome. Reported as a road hazard, copied everywhere anyway.

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Rap and Music

Flo Rida

1 build · Owner page

Chrome, then more chrome.

Bugatti Veyron

Gold chromeShop: Not credited

Silver chrome first, then re done in gold chrome with gold plated Forgiato wheels.

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NFL

Cam Newton

1 build · Owner page

Plating, not paint. There is no peeling this one off.

1970 Oldsmobile

24k gold platingShop: Not credited

Actual 24 karat gold plating on the brightwork of a 1970 Olds, a chemical process rather than a finish.

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NBA

LaMelo Ball

1 build · Owner page

Wraps drawn straight off his own sneaker line.

Tesla Cybertruck

Hand cut black chromeShop: Dreamworks Motorsports, Roxboro NC

Multi layer black chrome, hand cut to the Cybertruck's facets, with 3D emblems.

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What the log shows

Five lanes running through celebrity car culture

Anime era

Cartoons on carbon

Goku on a hood, a chopped Cullinan, a Slime coloured Urus. The younger side of the log treats a car the way a rapper treats an album cover, and the paint booth is the studio.

Lowrider

The oldest lane still running

Candy paint, wire wheels, laid frames. It predates every wrap on this list and it still sets the standard for patience, because there is no shortcut to that finish.

Chrome

Mirror finishes and the cost of attention

Chrome reads instantly on camera, which is exactly why it spread. It is also the easiest finish to remove, which is why the log treats it as a costume rather than a rebuild.

Chassis

Awards over wraps

The most serious entries never touched a vinyl roll. Carbon bodies, fabricated chassis, drivetrain swaps. That work takes a year, and it is the work that wins the shows.

Fitment

When the problem is the driver

Some builds start with a measurement rather than a mood board. Seat rails, roof lines and door apertures reworked so a seven footer can actually drive the thing.

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.