Built Here.
Family-owned. South Dakota grit. We weld trucks like they're parked in our own driveway.
1776 Kustom Truck Fab started where most shops start: a garage, one welder, and a chip on the shoulder. We'd both spent years in production shops watching corners get cut, builds get rushed, and customers get told that custom meant whatever the catalog could ship.
We weren't buying it. Custom means custom. So we opened our own shop, put our own names on the wall, and built it on one rule: every weld we lay, we'd be willing to put under our own truck.
Today the shop is 10,000 square feet of bays, lifts, welders, a plasma table, a press brake, a paint booth, and a dyno. Our crew has 35+ years of combined fab experience. We build for owners across South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska, and we ship the lower 48 when somebody finds us from further out.
The 1776 in our name isn't flag-waving. It's independence. We do the work the way it should be done, not the way the shortcut says. Built free. That's the rule.
The shop






The crew

The Owner
20+ years of fab experience. Started in chassis work, moved through diesel performance, opened 1776 to build the shop he wanted to work in.

Senior Welder
AWS-certified welder. Specializes in chassis fabrication, roll cages, and one-off custom work that nobody else will take on.

Diesel Lead
Cummins, Duramax, Powerstroke. Builds the tunes, runs the dyno, makes sure every performance build leaves measured.
Equipment
- /Miller Dynasty 280 TIG welder
- /Miller MIG 252 production welders (x2)
- /Plasma cam CNC plasma table - 5x10
- /60-ton press brake
- /Tube notcher and DOM tube bender
- /Two-post and four-post lifts to 14,000 lb capacity
- /Mustang truck-capable alignment rack
- /Mustang AWD chassis dyno
- /English wheel and metal shaping bench
- /In-house powder coat booth and oven
Because independence is a way of working. We won't build what the catalog says. We'll build what your truck needs. Welded by hand, in our shop, in South Dakota.
Got a vision? Bring it to the shop.
Quote turnaround inside one business day. No runaround.
