Hot Wheels® goes to the Big Apple! For this nearby–New York City event
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00:00 It's not just passion and creativity.
00:02 You want to create something that you see
00:04 that looks different, and when you walk away from,
00:06 it's so pretty you gotta look back at it.
00:08 Something so different and unique that it sets the standard.
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00:14 How you doing?
00:23 I'm Luis Rodriguez,
00:23 and I'm the Hot Wheels Legends Tour winner for 2018.
00:26 As a judge today, I guess I'm looking for creativity,
00:29 authenticity, and garage spirit.
00:31 I want to make sure I see something unique.
00:32 I want to see something different.
00:34 I want to see something that challenges ideas.
00:37 It's not about how big your wallet is.
00:39 It's about creating something with your hands
00:41 and bringing it to life.
00:43 It's going into the garage
00:44 and learning how to do something different
00:46 for the sake of doing something different.
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00:50 Hi, my name is Chris Coe,
00:56 and this is my Deuces Wild Monster mower.
00:59 It was actually my lawn mower and kept breaking down,
01:02 so we put bigger parts in it and made it go faster,
01:05 and just kept getting upgraded and upgraded
01:07 and farther and farther away from a lawn mower.
01:10 The engine is a 1952 OMC Porsche Post Twin.
01:14 It's 2.4 liters.
01:15 It's got an Eaton M90 supercharger.
01:18 To the crank, it makes 457 horsepower.
01:20 Things that make a Hot Wheels car
01:22 is things out of the normal.
01:23 You want the big tires.
01:24 You want the skulls on the front of it,
01:26 the big rotors hanging out of it.
01:27 Stuff you don't see every day.
01:30 My name is Scott Jzacz from Tiverton, Rhode Island,
01:32 and I'm here with Shower Power.
01:33 This car here I started building
01:35 using an original cast iron four-foot bathtub.
01:38 I spent two years building it, about 2,000 hours.
01:41 The engine is a Chevy 283
01:44 that was actually out of one of my old drag cars,
01:46 so I wanted the entire car to look like a piece of jewelry.
01:50 The rear end housing is made from three pieces
01:52 that are O-ringed.
01:54 You put the center in, drop two axle tubes in,
01:56 and that's how that all worked out.
01:58 The feedback that I get, it's awesome.
02:00 To bring this out here and show the car,
02:02 and it's like a rock band being at a concert
02:04 and getting that feedback from the crowd.
02:06 Hi, my name's Calvin Saint,
02:16 and this is my giant shopping cart.
02:17 If you're gonna build a grocery cart, build a Hot Rod.
02:20 I mean, make it cool.
02:21 If it's big or loud or over the top,
02:24 that's what we went with.
02:25 So from the nuts up front to the giant wheels in the back,
02:28 it's a Hot Wheel.
02:29 And as we started, it kind of took on a life of its own,
02:32 and it got more complicated and more expensive and more fun.
02:36 Coming to an event like this, it's just over the top.
02:38 I mean, we do parades with this.
02:39 Spur of the moment, last year, I got the ladder out
02:42 and let kids climb in to get a picture taken
02:44 and just have a good time,
02:45 'cause hey, they're in a giant shopping cart.
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02:50 - Right, so there's obviously a lot of cars
03:02 that we're looking at, a lot of potential here.
03:04 What do you guys think?
03:05 - Ty, let me tell you, there's about over 300 cars here.
03:07 That was a tough one.
03:08 - I think the con-line, the husband and wife team,
03:11 that they did everything at home.
03:14 They spent 14 years, I think.
03:16 - 14 years. - 14 years building it.
03:18 I think he was a crane operator,
03:20 so that's why he knew all the hydraulic lines
03:23 on lifting the cab and everything.
03:25 - And if you look close at the details, it's beautiful.
03:27 I mean, it's structural, it's strong,
03:29 but you could tell it was well thought out.
03:31 - That's the thing, it's different.
03:32 Definitely could be shrunk down into a Hot Wheels.
03:35 - I think the one that's really bodying
03:37 this whole parking lot is Cargo.
03:39 - I agree 100%.
03:40 - Cargo, I mean, Mike's car is definitely
03:43 a sensitive part from everybody else.
03:45 - Like four different cars in one.
03:47 - Yes. - Yes.
03:47 - He actually had the car since 1989,
03:49 and he's got a background in fabrication,
03:51 he has a background in body work.
03:53 He went and he took that metal,
03:54 he took, like you said, four different cars,
03:56 and kind of puzzle pieced them together
03:58 in order to create something that was more than
04:00 some of its parts. - And it's clean.
04:01 You can't tell it's not choppy, it's very clean.
04:03 - Everybody, Hot Wheels on three?
04:04 - Hot Wheels on three.
04:06 - One, two, three, Hot Wheels!
04:08 (laughing)
04:10 - We have one more award to talk about,
04:12 and this is gonna be the winner for the show.
04:13 Tough choice, stiff competition,
04:16 just on a Hot Wheels aesthetic.
04:17 Great story, level of creativity.
04:20 Goes to Michelangelo with the Cargo.
04:23 (audience applauding)
04:24 - It's a 1948 Chevy pickup truck,
04:26 morphed with a '60 Cadillac,
04:28 and a whole lot of love in between.
04:29 I built this car in the last 30 years, on and off.
04:33 Most people thought I was nuts.
04:34 They didn't think I'd make it to the end.
04:36 I persevered, here we are.
04:37 Fabrication on the car is done with all steel,
04:40 and done with mostly material that was found
04:42 around the yard, and basically just took everything back,
04:44 and cut it up, hand-hammered it, welded on, make it work.
04:47 Well, I kept the car on the original Caddy chassis.
04:50 We put it on airbags.
04:51 Drive train is a 350 Chevy, fuel-injected.
04:54 It's on a '79 Camaro subframe,
04:56 and it's got a turbo 350 tranny,
04:58 lots of Chevy, some Cadillac,
05:00 and a lot of hand-hammered, handmade, cheap-ass pieces.
05:03 For me, the car is timeless,
05:05 and from the emotions on the people's faces
05:08 when they just see it, and the smiles that it creates,
05:10 it's priceless, that's what it's all about.
05:13 Seeing this car as a Hot Wheels car
05:14 would be the ultimate culmination
05:16 of every single thing that I've done my whole life.
05:19 This is a true product of everything that I'm about,
05:22 and it's truly my masterpiece.
05:24 Thank you guys so much.
05:25 We hope to see you next year.
05:26 We have another 10 stops or so.
05:28 Detroit is next.
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