2019 Hot Wheels™ Legends Tour: Dallas

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Hot Wheels® comes to Dallas! For this Texas-sized event

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00:00 I think it's just, it's like a sense of pride.

00:01 It's something that's definitely not straight

00:03 from the dealerships.

00:03 It's not just bought off a website.

00:05 It's not an eBay purchase product.

00:07 It's something that you built,

00:08 something that you came up with in your mind

00:09 and you made a reality.

00:11 - I'm Jake, the Gunsnake,

00:22 and I'm out here at the 2019 Dallas Hot Wheels Legend Show.

00:25 As you can see, it's a beautiful day,

00:27 but we're out here to like pick a car

00:29 that could potentially be a Hot Wheels car.

00:31 How cool is that?

00:32 There's a lot of great cars here,

00:33 a lot of good stuff to see.

00:35 I'm excited.

00:35 - What's going on guys?

00:49 My name is Néstor.

00:50 This is my 1984 Hakotora.

00:52 A few years ago, I saw one of these on the internet.

00:55 All of the graphics, all the livery.

00:57 It was built in my backyard with my daughter.

00:59 We both love cars,

01:00 and that's basically the only time

01:03 that we have to spend together.

01:05 Well, Hot Wheels really represent families.

01:08 And like I said, my daughter,

01:09 I get to spend time with her.

01:10 So that's what we do.

01:11 Whenever we're not working on these cars,

01:13 we're working on the smaller version.

01:15 - My name is Bill Harris,

01:17 and the name of the car is Stray Cat.

01:18 It's a 1927 Ford Tall T Coupe.

01:22 I got this car about eight years ago, started building it.

01:26 Really, I've done everything for the past eight years myself

01:29 other than the initial frames.

01:30 It is a true steel body.

01:32 It's a patina, true patina.

01:34 I shot it with a satin clear to protect it.

01:37 The motor is a '67 Corvette 327.

01:40 Radiator, fuel tank, all that is in the back.

01:43 The duct will spray smoke the nitrous out the bill.

01:46 So it's kind of a cool feature on it.

01:48 It's not a car that I tell people to don't touch.

01:50 We let kids sit in it all the time.

01:52 So it's that type of a car.

01:53 (upbeat music)

01:56 (cheering)

02:03 - Very funny.

02:04 - Nice.

02:06 - All right, so thank you guys all for coming out to Dallas.

02:08 There was a lot of really cool cars here today.

02:11 What'd you gravitate towards?

02:12 What'd you think of the city, the people, the event?

02:15 - The cool part about this venue

02:16 is you have a lot of variety.

02:17 You have the more low rider, you have the truck,

02:19 you have the off-road, you have the classic car.

02:20 So it's a good hybrid of everything right here.

02:22 People enjoyed the event hugely.

02:24 It was a great vibe.

02:25 A whole lot of styles in the same place.

02:27 I enjoyed it a lot.

02:28 I can speak for myself.

02:29 Yes, yes I did.

02:31 - I really liked the farm truck.

02:32 That was really, really well done.

02:34 A lot of authentic details.

02:35 Really spoke to this space that we're in here in Dallas.

02:38 - Someone's from out of town

02:39 and you wanted to show them a Texas truck,

02:41 there couldn't be a better choice.

02:42 - Well, and like he said, that thing breathes Texas.

02:44 I think he said it, he's like,

02:45 bald eagles come out when the doors open.

02:47 - There's three that kind of boil to the top.

02:49 We have the Chaparral, the tall T,

02:52 and the S2K drift car.

02:54 I think I gravitate towards the S2000

02:57 'cause it's built by a younger guy.

02:59 He races it himself, kind of built it himself.

03:01 So I think that I like that story.

03:04 - I'm going Chaparral.

03:05 - Yeah, same.

03:06 - Yeah, like two engines, that super '90s race look.

03:09 I need the street legal, man.

03:10 That's like, that's it.

03:11 I would do it.

03:12 I would go for it.

03:13 - All right, I guess we bring it in.

03:14 Do a little fun of Hot Wheels.

03:15 One, three.

03:16 (cheering)

03:17 - Oh no, we don't like D3.

03:18 - One, two, three.

03:19 - Hot Wheels!

03:20 (cheering)

03:21 - Before we start, we wanna thank all of our sponsors

03:24 that make this happen.

03:26 Starting with Mobile One, go enter into the sweepstakes.

03:28 You can win a real live Hot Wheels Camaro.

03:31 Also Walmart, our host today, that make all this happen,

03:34 gives us this amazing space.

03:35 So thank you to Walmart.

03:36 Thank you to Jake, the store manager, for all the support.

03:40 Mechanicswear, I don't know if you got a chance

03:42 to go play in the Pit Stop station.

03:44 So thank you to Mechanicswear.

03:45 Of course, thank you to Dickies back here.

03:48 (cheering)

03:49 Hopefully everyone got a chance to get their work shirt,

03:51 get some of the amazing badges that we have here.

03:54 If you haven't done it, you can still go inside

03:56 and get some.

03:57 I wanna turn it over to one of our judges,

03:59 Victor Rawlings, for a really special announcement.

04:02 - My friend Jasper here is four years old,

04:04 and he was born with Down syndrome,

04:06 and he's had a couple heart surgeries.

04:08 One of his biggest dreams was to come

04:11 to the Legends Hot Wheels Tour.

04:12 We were able to bring him out here, let him see it.

04:15 I, for one, got to spend a little time a few minutes ago,

04:17 and his passion for cars is unreal.

04:20 And we're just excited that he came out.

04:22 He came to Dickies booth and got a shirt.

04:24 And I want everybody to give a big round of applause

04:26 for him and his family.

04:27 Yeah!

04:29 There we go.

04:30 - We spent quite a good amount of minutes

04:33 deliberating the uniqueness, the story behind the build.

04:36 And after a quite good amount of deliberation,

04:38 we decided Jeff Kurtz's S2K Drift Car

04:43 is the winner for today.

04:44 Jeff Kurtz, where you at?

04:45 Come pick your prize.

04:47 Congrats, man.

04:48 - So my name's Jeff Kurtz, and this is my Honda S2000,

04:53 also known as the Drift 2K on social media.

04:55 We wanted to keep the Honda platform on it,

04:57 so it's a Honda V6.

04:58 This thing has almost 70 degrees of steering angle.

05:01 It's got a full set of race harnesses

05:02 for the driver and the passenger,

05:04 when we do take passengers.

05:05 All the factory instrument cluster's gone.

05:07 It's been replaced with a stack dash,

05:09 just for us to look at oil pressure, water temp,

05:11 things of that nature.

05:12 We had to figure out how to make the exhaust,

05:14 how to make a fuel system for it.

05:16 So it was just a lot of fabrication stuff

05:18 and figuring out what we're gonna have to do

05:19 to make everything play happily.

05:21 It's that smile that it brings kids when they see it,

05:24 and see the blower out the hood, see the nitrous bottle.

05:27 It's just, you know, I think that's everybody's dream

05:30 that sets out to build a car,

05:31 is to be able to have your car replicated in some form.

05:34 To actually be able to hold a model of your car

05:37 would just be amazing to me.

05:39 (car engine revving)

05:43 (upbeat music)

05:45 (upbeat music)

05:48 (upbeat music)

05:51 (upbeat music)

05:53 (rock music)

05:56 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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