2019 Hot Wheels™ Legends Tour: Phoenix

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Hot Wheels® comes to Phoenix! For this event in the sunny Southwest

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00:00 I'm looking for what I would want to buy on the shelf.

00:03 That eye catcher, that head turner.

00:05 You know, when you're flicking through all the cards

00:07 of Hot Wheels, what's that one that's gonna make you go,

00:09 oh man, that's the one.

00:11 (upbeat music)

00:14 Hey everybody, I'm Nick Calderone,

00:24 host of Right This Minute.

00:25 We're in Phoenix at the Hot Wheels Legends store.

00:28 We're looking for something that's unique,

00:30 hopefully handcrafted, you know, garage built.

00:32 That head turner, you can walk the aisles

00:35 and you can say, yeah, that's a cool car,

00:36 that's a cool car, that's a Hot Wheels car.

00:39 And that's what we're looking for.

00:40 (upbeat music)

00:43 - Hi, my name's Harry Gerke.

00:54 It's a 1973 Volkswagen Bug.

00:57 It's got a full tube chassis on it.

00:59 It's got a Chevy 2.4 liter EcoTec in it.

01:02 It's very reliable, so we could drive this thing anywhere

01:05 and it's got tons of power.

01:06 I mean, this thing would probably go

01:07 over 100 miles an hour easy.

01:09 King shocks all the way around,

01:11 14 inches of wheel travel on it.

01:13 I've got a Android tablet that runs some of the car in there.

01:16 It hooks up to the motor through a Bluetooth

01:18 and it tracks just for our GPS

01:20 and everything else like that for off road.

01:22 A lot of thumbs up, a lot of pictures,

01:23 a lot of people want to ride.

01:25 (upbeat music)

01:27 - My name's Mitch Elsberry.

01:28 This is a 2017 Radio Flyer.

01:31 Well, it's got a 2007 LS3 Corvette motor in it.

01:35 It's got a 700R automatic transmission

01:38 and it's got a Ford Lincoln rear end in it

01:40 with the factory Lincoln airbags.

01:42 Driving on the freeway, people go to pass me

01:44 and they'll slow down.

01:45 They got their phones hanging out the windows,

01:47 holding up traffic, thumbs up everywhere I go.

01:49 The kids love it and that's what I built it for,

01:52 for the kids.

01:53 (upbeat music)

01:55 - My name's Tony Armey

01:59 and the car I brought is a 1968 Ford Mustang.

02:01 Took me about 14 years to do from start to finish.

02:04 We used a 2006 Ferrari F430 4.3 liter

02:07 and then strapped a couple of turbos to it as well

02:09 from Nelson Racing.

02:10 The whole car itself is controlled from an iPad.

02:13 Everything's controlled from Bluetooth.

02:14 There's no switches, there's no knobs or anything.

02:16 So everything's either from my phone

02:18 or the iPad that's in the central console.

02:19 A lot of components on the car were 3D printed,

02:21 skinned in carbon.

02:22 So we tried to really bring all the technology up to date,

02:26 try to make kind of a modern super car

02:27 out of a vintage Mustang.

02:29 (upbeat music)

02:31 - Come on, come on, come on.

02:38 - Yes, go ahead.

02:40 - We're gonna wait to get dinner.

02:41 - Thanks guys for coming out and judging this thing.

02:43 This has been a challenge.

02:46 There's a lot of really cool cars here.

02:48 So let's talk a little bit about what we like.

02:50 - You know, my favorite car here

02:52 has definitely been the blue car from Carter.

02:55 One of the kind of unique builds that we've seen.

02:58 - I mean, he did so much work himself.

03:00 It's just amazing to see the level of effort

03:03 that went into that build.

03:04 - There's some cars with some good history,

03:06 but there's some good family ties too

03:08 to some of these builds.

03:09 So it makes it really hard.

03:11 - Hard not to talk about the family build

03:13 without mentioning that GMC bus.

03:15 It's huge, big wheels, stands out, looks cool.

03:19 That thing was awesome.

03:20 - Well, let's talk a little bit about our finalists, right?

03:22 The Cantra prototype we talked about,

03:24 the VW square back gasser, that 49 GMC bus.

03:29 Those really, I think, stood out amongst all the cars here.

03:32 (upbeat music)

03:35 - How's it going, everybody?

03:42 Thanks for coming out to our Hot Wheels Legends Tour

03:45 here in our Phoenix, Arizona stop.

03:47 So good to have everyone here.

03:48 Such an amazing turnout of cars.

03:50 First of all, I wanted to give a big shout out

03:53 to the Walmart here.

03:54 And I wanna give a shout out to our partners as well,

03:57 Mobile One, Dickies, Mechanics, and Xbox.

04:01 - We're gonna do the winner here,

04:02 and I know that's why you're all here.

04:04 After a lot of chat, we finally came up with the winner today

04:08 at the Phoenix Legends Tour to be Ron Howe.

04:11 Ron is the guy that built

04:14 the two cool Volkswagen square back.

04:17 - This is my 1971 Volkswagen square back, type three.

04:22 It is a twin engine gasser style.

04:24 I built this with me and my sons

04:26 to try to have a better father and son bond.

04:29 I wanted the carburetor sticking out through the hood

04:32 because it adds to the gasser profile and the gasser look.

04:34 I think the red makes it pop.

04:36 The stance, the tires, you know, it's got fat tires.

04:38 Once the other one was the interior,

04:40 I wanted to make sure that the interior was custom made,

04:43 but it was also nicely done and finished.

04:45 Everything on the engines is all mechanical.

04:48 It has points, it has a condenser in it,

04:51 it has old school coils.

04:52 There's no electronic ignition on it anywhere.

04:55 It is carburetors, it's not fuel injected.

04:57 For me, it's a big honor to be, you know,

04:59 chosen by Hot Wheels for what I built.

05:01 You know, I think it might turn out to be a neat little car.

05:04 (car engine revving)

05:07 - Really happy with the car we picked here in Phoenix.

05:09 You still have an opportunity to get selected.

05:12 Sign up for the Hot Wheels Legends Tour.

05:15 We hope to see you at the next stop.

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