The BEST episodes of Texas Metal
Every episode of Texas Metal ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Texas Metal!
Specializing in one-of-a-kind custom builds, Bill Carlton and the crew of Houston's Ekstensive Metal Works deal with rowdy customers, challenging projects and tight timelines while working on everything from muscle cars to monster trucks.
#1 - Across the Block
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/1/2022
The Mecum Auction comes to town, and Bill runs four vehicles across the block with shocking results. The team starts their next monster build, a custom all-tube buggy. Building an indestructible cage requires all their fabrication skills and then some!
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#2 - F-350 Raptor Build
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/2023
Bill loves a good challenge, especially when it's a build he and his team have never done before; while they transform a one-ton 2022 F-350 into a Baja-style Raptor, they rebuild a 1964 Rolls riddled with structural damage from the ground up.
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#3 - Rolls On In and Tanker Away
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/2023
As Bill says, you never know what new build is going to roll into the shop. This time, it's a beloved 1964 Rolls-Royce with a rusty secret. Meanwhile, the team finishes the final fabrication as they prepare to ship out one of their biggest builds ever, the '53 tanker truck.
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#4 - Coupe de Tanker
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/1/2023
A new customer challenges Bill with his fully customized '37 Ford Coupe, which he wants restored to its factory look; as one of their biggest builds yet, the '53 tanker proves again and again that the bigger the truck, the bigger the build.
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#5 - Missouri Tanker
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/25/2023
Ekstensive Metalworks knows how to go really big, but what happens when they need to go extra small? An antique 1953 tanker tests Bill and the guys as one of their biggest builds to date, while a family golf cart gets radically remade into a wheelie poppin', high-speed electric demon.
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#6 - Jeep Willys and the Hellcat
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/2023
Some builds are just worth the wait. A 1960s Jeep Willys rolled in as a pristine classic truck, but with a longer, wider cab, custom everything and a 6.2 Hellcat, Bill and the team finish strong by transforming it into something bigger, meaner and louder than anything on the road.
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#8 - C10 to End All C10s
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/22/2022
Bill refuses to hold anything back on the '68 C10, as it finishes in a Texas-sized flourish looking unlike anything they've ever customized before. The '60s Willys Jeep overcomes a major hurdle, as the team must fabricate a wider front end by hand.
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#9 - Ram Tougher and Louder
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/15/2022
Bill takes the '68 C10 into uncharted territory with over-the-top fabrication and an epoxy river bed that tests their skills like nothing before. A 2018 Ram dually can't handle heavy loads, so the team comes up with a unique setup to get it back to work
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#10 - Hometown Homerun Van
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/8/2022
When the hometown Houston Astros ask for a custom van that brings the party, the Ekstensive team swings for the fences on their 2022 Ram ProMaster van. Bill gives an unfinished '68 C10 one of their most innovative suspension and chassis designs to date.
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#11 - 440 'Cuda Overhaul
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/2023
When the outside doesn't match the inside on one of Bill's favorite muscle cars, a 1972 'Cuda, the team hatches an innovative plan for a modern, handmade redux; Bill and the team tear down a 1952 GMC wrecker to build it into a tow and show truck.
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#12 - MGCena
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/25/2022
Actor John Cena is amazed by the transformation of his British classic '69 MGC into a custom-built masterpiece with all-American trimmings. Also, the team has to get creative building a chassis and bed for a '60s Jeep Willys entirely from scratch.
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#13 - H1 Hummer-Dinger
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/2022
An Ekstensive favorite, a 2001 Hummer H1, needs some serious reinforcements. Bill changes things up on his completely custom, all-tube buggy by borrowing technology from monster trucks. Bill puts his daughter to work customizing her 2020 Challenger.
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#14 - Bigger, Badder Wrecker
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/2022
Never satisfied to keep a truck stock, Bill and the team work their magic to customize a brand-new 2022 International wrecker. Now that the pristine 1960s Willys Jeep has been quartered, they use imaginative fabrication techniques to make it whole again.
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#15 - Root Beer Cadillac
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/16/2022
Bill has never really liked the body of the 1974 Cadillac Eldorado. But when a client wants hers radically redesigned, Ekstensive blends old and new to make it cooler than the rest. The guys make short work of a big problem on a 2021 Silverado 4500 HD.
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#16 - From the Ground Up
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/2022
Twenty years back, Bill started Ekstensive Metalworks by specializing in lifting, lowering and everything in between. Fast forward to today, and he's still being put to the test with a 1928 Ford Rat Rod, a 1942 Ford pickup and a 1975 C10.
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#17 - Mom-Ster Truck
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2022
After pro wrestler and actor John Cena makes a surprise appearance at the shop, Bill and the guys begin to customize John's small '69 MGC to be a perfect fit. A new customer wants a handmade lifted suspension on his '20 Denali 2500 as a gift for his wife.
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#18 - Jeep Splits and Foreign Whips
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2022
Bill and the gang split a nearly perfect 1960 Willys Jeep into four pieces to make it longer, wider and meaner. Drop shipped from halfway around the world, a 1998 AMG G-Wagon gets overhauled into a hand-built masterpiece.
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#19 - A Texas-Sized Surprise
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/2/2021
The guys hit the home stretch on the '46 Ford "Blue Thunder." Ekstensive powers up Bill's all-tube buggy with a 1,500 hp Cummins diesel engine, and actor John Cena drops off a '69 MGC, wanting nothing less than to change the game with his British classic.
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#20 - 450 Reasons to Go Bigger
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/26/2021
When Ekstensive needs a new shop truck, Bill and the guys go sky-high with a lifted '21 F-450 King Ranch capable of hauling over 20,000 pounds. With most of the '46 Ford Coupe body beyond repair, the team has no choice but to build from the ground up.
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#21 - '52 Wrecker Complete
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/14/2024
Like a lot of kids growing up, one of Bill Carlton's favorite cars was the Pontiac GTO, so he's more than excited to put his spin on a 1968 GTO. Meanwhile, one of Ekstensive's biggest builds, the '52 tow truck, finishes super strong.
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#22 - '49 Ford Rust to Royalty
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/17/2024
A while back, a customer asked Bill to rebuild a rusty '49 Ford truck as a gift for her dad. The team has given it their all to finish a one-of-one, hand-built masterpiece with a Coyote engine -- and one of the best presents a dad could ever imagine.
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#24 - Coffee and Diesel Truck
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/3/2024
If you're going to get a build at Ekstensive, you can't expect to get your coffee from just any old coffee shop. Bill and his team of fabricators hand make a custom coffee shop on wheels, designed to match the classic look of a diesel 1931 Ford truck.
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#25 - '31 Ford Rebuilt Tough
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/27/2024
Bill Carlton must find the balance between handmade metal work and the designs of two Ford trucks; the team makes a 1931 Ford bigger and badder, while overcoming a crucial design challenge on one of their biggest ground-up builds, a 1949 Ford.
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