Scott Keys of Bradenburg, Kentucky is a knuckle buster by trade, which made it a little bit easier for him to build his first full blown custom, the 1994 Chevy C-1500 truck you see pictured here. While photographing this immaculate sled I had the opportunity to talk to Scott's Uncle Tony, who will be a feature in the next issue of ESM, and apparently Scott comes from a family of custom auto aficionados. Knowing that tidbit of information, everything really made sense. Of course it wasn't easy to coerce Scott into chopping up a perfectly good work truck, but after some influential encouragement from his family, Scott began his journey into customville!

Scott and his dad jumped right in and modified the truck so that it would be noticed right away. One way is to air bag the truck... check! To go even further would be to body drop the truck... make that two checks! The pavement eating stance was achieved by notching the rear frame rails six inches, adding a custom four link, tubular control arms and two inch dropped spindles up front, Air Ride suspension with 2600lb bags on all four corners, and a 3.5" body drop. Cha-ching!

Moving right along Scott liked the stance, but felt it would look even better with a kewl set of DUBs to give the truck the "full effect." Scott sifted through a few magazines until he decided to order a set of 20" Boyd Coddington Stingray wheels with 255/35/20 Kumho rubber providing the traction.

Under the hood, Scott kept things pretty much stock, for the most part, other than custom made painted to match fenders, smoothed firewall, a power chip, and an Edelbrock intake.

The next item on the agenda was a few body modifications. Scott likes the wild customs just as much as the next guy, but for his truck he decided to not get too crazy. Scott kept things simple by removing all of the trim, shaving the fuel door, filling the stake pocket holes, and then flipping the tailgate handle to the inside of the bed. The taillights were shaved and the stock bumper was ditched for a molded-in roll pan. A line of fire LED light was placed between the tailgate and the top of the roll pan to ward off those who follow too closely. On the nose section of Scott's sled, the stock hood was replaced with a cowl induction hood along with a chrome smoothie front bumper. The stock grille was cut out and a custom made billet version was inserted in its place. In the pickup bed, the entire stock floor was raised including the fender wells. Scott can fuel his sled by removing the custom made iron cross in the bed near the driver's side portion of the cab. Trick indeed!

Once the cutting, grinding, and chopping stage of the bodywork was complete, Scott sanded and smoothed the rest of the body to perfection to prep it for the paint booth. Upon completion of the aforementioned tedious details, Andy Hudson was summoned by the powers that be and was asked to load up his paint gun and spray the truck in PPG Indigo Blue. Check!

The body was clean and looking very sweet, but what truly makes this immaculate sled "sweet" is the inside of the cockpit. Even the late great Walter Payton would relinquish his title of "sweetness" if he could see the inside of Scott's truck! For starters, the factory dash was smoothed and painted by Andy Hudson to match the exterior skin. I unique center console was crafted in the shape of a conjoined set of the letter "U" also painted to match the exterior skin by Andy. The "U" between the sheets... er... we mean seats, has a pair of drink holders, while the other "U" contains a set of Snap-On wrenches which are the controls for the air suspension. Now, that is some serious trick-ness!

The rest of the interior was crafted by the talented Billy Scott, Jr. of Scotts Interior. Billy covered the custom bucket seats in white leather. The lower door panels were also covered in white leather with white suede covering the upper door panels. The headliner consists of white suede which has a 3-D Superman styled "S" emblazoned in the center which stands for who else... Scott! The Banjo styled billet steering wheel also sports a white leather wrap with a billet center that matches up with the billet laid around the console area in the dash. The floorboard received the custom treatment with tan tweed replacing the stock carpet along with custom tweed floor mats. The custom seat brackets were covered with diamond plate panels to finish off the floorboard's beautification process.

Finishing off the immaculate sled's interior, an audio system was worked into the details. A Panasonic head unit spins the latest tunes while a Kenwood amp powers a variety of Alpine speakers including a single 12" Type-S sub. The sub is housed in a custom enclosure that Scotts Interior also covered in white leather.

Scott's truck is probably one of the cleanest trucks we saw on the show circuit in 2005, not to mention just absolutely immaculate on the inside. Scott's truck proves the point that sometimes a clean outside mixed with a very sweet inside will cause an immaculate sled to gain sudden attention!

Shout Out: "I want to give a shout out to Uncle tony, Andy hudson, Scotts Interior, Southend Street Machine, the family, and my wanna be wife... thanks!" -Scott