It might just be the most famous pickup truck on the planet. A custom-built creation from Doug and Brad DeBerti, the father and son behind DeBerti Design, this 900 hp 1965 Chevrolet C10 6×6, known as the “C10 Slayer,” has starred in multiple YouTube videos, TV shows, and publications. Now the North Carolina–based DeBerti duo have decided to sell their prized powerhouse.
The C10 Slayer is set to be one of the headliners at next month’s Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Fall auction in Arizona, which will run from October 10 through 13. There, it will go under the hammer with no reserve. Completed in 2021, just in time for that year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) exhibition in Las Vegas (where it was a social media sensation), the truck was designed to best any sports car, combining the outlandish aesthetic of a toy automobile from Hot Wheels with actual supercar performance.
The 1965 Chevrolet “C10 Slayer” custom pickup from DeBerti Design.
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“It’s tough to be selling. My dad and I spent a year working 10 to 15 hours a day building it,” says Brad DeBerti. “The attention to detail, the finish throughout, is just remarkable.” According to the younger DeBerti, the truck is set to appear in Microsoft’s upcoming Forza Horizon 5 video game—which has expected global sales of between 80 and 90 million copies—and will have its likeness replicated as a Hot Wheels collectible next year. “Whoever buys the truck, they’re going to be able to go home, power-up their Xbox or PlayStation, and drive their exact truck in the game. That’s going to be awesome,” says Brad.
The C10 Slayer started life as a rough-and-rusted 1965 Chevy C10 work truck, which DeBerti Design disassembled, keeping only a few body panels from the iconic two-door. They called on Tennessee-based Scott’s Hot Rods to fabricate a full custom, triple-axle chassis to which they mounted the restored cab with wide-body fenders, a race-car-style front spoiler, and a cab spoiler.
The 900 hp, 6.2-liter V-8 comes complete with a Whipple supercharger and an eight-stack fuel-injection system.
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Instead of going with a traditional pickup bed, Doug and Brad kept the space open for onlookers to gaze at the complex, twin-axle driveline—with nine-inch axles—and race-style brakes. The suspension is a full Mittler Bros. hydraulic system that can elevate the truck all the way from nearly ground level to five inches in height at the touch of a button.
Helping to give the vehicle its jaw-dropping look are custom 20-inch, slender-spoked, red-painted Govad alloys—again, six of them—shod with sticky Michelin Pilot Sport tires. Yet arguably the highlight of this matte-black behemoth is the 6.2-liter, GM LSX V-8 small-block crate motor. The mill comes complete with a Whipple supercharger and a distinctive eight-stack fuel-injection system on top. The power plant is mated to a race-spec 4L80E four-speed automatic transmission.
With carbon-fiber interior panels, the cab features a bright-red, billet-machined brake lever and matching shifter.
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Inside the cab, with its heavy-duty steel-tube roll cage, is a pair of OMP Racing bucket seats with race-style harnesses, an OMP Alcantara-covered steering wheel, carbon-fiber interior panels, and digital instruments. For drifting, there’s a bright-red, billet-machined brake lever taking center stage, plus a matching red shifter.
“We restricted the power to right around 900 hp so we could run it on regular pump gas and drive it on the highway all day long,” says Brad. “But if you want to go crazy, it’s easily capable of being uprated to deliver up to 2,000 hp.”
Go to any of the DeBerti YouTube pages and you’ll see the C10 Slayer performing endless smokey burnouts or wild drifting maneuvers at various car shows around the country. The truck’s entire, step-by-step build process was also documented.
The truck is set to appear in Microsoft’s upcoming Forza Horizon 5 video game, and will have its likeness replicated as a Hot Wheels collectible next year.
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How much will it sell for? Barrett-Jackson isn’t putting an estimate on it. However, a similar-style six-wheeler by Danton Arts Kustoms, with a 717 hp, supercharged 6.2-liter Hellcat engine, sold at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction last January for $825,000. In that light, the C10 Slayer could potentially fetch as much as $1 million.
“It’s time to pass it on to someone else,” says Brad. “We have an amazing wide-bodied 1962 Lincoln Continental project we’re building right now. It should be even more outrageous.”
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DeBerti Design’s 1965 Chevrolet “C10 Slayer” custom pickup being offered through Barrett-Jackson.
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