The Hot Wheels™ Legends Tour: El Segundo

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Hot Wheels® comes home! For the El Segundo stop

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00:00 Today what we're looking for is a couple things.

00:02 The car's just gotta grab you,

00:03 and then once it does that, if the story's good,

00:06 we're handing out three different awards,

00:08 and one car is gonna be turned

00:10 into an actual packaged Hot Wheel.

00:12 (upbeat music)

00:14 Hi there, I'm Johnny Lieberman.

00:23 I'm here in El Segundo, California

00:25 at the Hot Wheels Legends Tour.

00:28 The crazy part, somebody made a terrible mistake,

00:30 and I'm one of the judges.

00:32 There are hundreds of cars here.

00:33 They're all super cool.

00:35 Let's go take a look at 'em.

00:37 (upbeat music)

00:39 Are you a Hot Wheels girl?

00:50 - Yes.

00:50 - How many Hot Wheel cars do you have?

00:52 - I don't know.

00:52 - You don't know, wow.

00:54 Paxton knows, he's got over a thousand.

00:55 - Well she's--

00:56 - If you marry him and divorce him,

00:57 you could get half his car.

00:58 (laughing)

01:00 - As a parent, all I do now is play with Hot Wheels,

01:03 so it's kinda great.

01:04 It's cool to actually see someone build something,

01:06 so we're looking for like the garage spirit,

01:09 as Hot Wheels calls it.

01:10 I wanna see something I haven't seen before.

01:12 That's huge for me, and there's a bunch here.

01:15 There's at least three cars that are just like

01:17 vehicles I've never seen anywhere else,

01:19 so that's super cool.

01:20 One time there was a stink bug crawling

01:23 on the sidewalk in front of him,

01:25 and I was like, that looks like my car,

01:27 so he got the name Stinky.

01:28 Obviously a lot of modifications,

01:30 lot of flames, lays on the ground,

01:33 gets a lot of attention, and kids like to play with it.

01:36 - I've always enjoyed the Bosozoku style,

01:38 which was an old Japanese style in like the 70s,

01:42 early 80s, I mean just the wide over flares.

01:44 Everything that they've done is from the Group 5 racers.

01:47 It was just about like the big wheels,

01:49 the big flares, the wild exhaust.

01:51 Me and my wife, we didn't have any previous knowledge

01:54 as to how to do body work, how to do glass work.

01:56 It's been about staying true to the style,

01:59 but still bringing my own influence into it.

02:01 - We kinda had different versions.

02:04 We kinda took a pool among some friends,

02:06 and we came up with the Nash Hole.

02:08 We exposed the wheels and tires,

02:09 put a small block Chevy in it.

02:11 - The floor pan has been cut out

02:12 and replaced with all new sheet metal.

02:14 - I think it's also very cool for my children

02:16 to kinda see dad and friends do cool stuff

02:19 and be able to kinda be a part of events like this,

02:21 basically.

02:22 - It's not just about a car show.

02:24 Every legend stopped, really through the support

02:26 of our great sponsors.

02:28 You can actually win a life-size Hot Wheels Camaro

02:31 through Mobile One.

02:33 This is a real, drivable, 50th anniversary Chevy Camaro.

02:38 All of us judges are wearing Dickies,

02:40 the premier work shirt and work wear company.

02:44 Of course, they had to dress

02:45 the Hot Wheels Legends judges.

02:48 Mechanics, we mentioned, is out here with an event

02:50 so you can go and see how fast you can change wheels.

02:53 The other 17 stops are all made possible

02:57 because of our number one retailer in the world

03:00 for Hot Wheels, and that's Walmart.

03:02 (upbeat music)

03:04 - All right, so what'd you guys think?

03:15 - Well, pretty tough field.

03:16 Paxton, what do you think?

03:17 - I think the beach, the--

03:19 - Yeah, the Mad Max, it has like a V6 turbo engine.

03:23 It took him like three or four years

03:24 to build the entire thing.

03:26 It's really cool 'cause it has to touch spikes

03:28 and a lot of tools hanging from it.

03:30 - It's hard to argue against spikes.

03:32 Let's not forget the 1980 Cressida.

03:35 - Well, the Cressida's pretty bad as a whole.

03:36 - With the splitter, with the pipes.

03:38 - He didn't know how to do any body work,

03:40 so he learned himself on that.

03:41 Built it, she painted it, and you--

03:43 - You can use it when a husband and wife builds up,

03:45 one of them winds up dead, you know, so.

03:48 - Of all of the Legends tours,

03:49 I think that this one probably had the biggest brain.

03:52 I mean, talk about changing the personality of a car.

03:55 - 'Cause every Hot Wheels should have you say,

03:58 "Is that street legal?

03:59 "Can you do that?"

04:00 You know, to me, the Nash symbolizes that.

04:03 - Yeah, that is great.

04:04 - The Nash is a full-size Hot Wheel variety.

04:06 You don't even have to build it.

04:07 - All right, guys, that was a great deliberation.

04:09 Tough as always, well done.

04:12 - How we doing, El Segundo?

04:14 All right.

04:16 So as Chris said, this was a really hard decision

04:18 thanks to all the judges up here

04:19 and thanks again to the design team.

04:21 It was not an easy choice, but when it came down to it,

04:25 we unanimously picked it as the winner.

04:27 So I'm super proud to welcome to the stage

04:29 Greg Salzillo, Dave Ford, for the 1957 Nash Metropolitan.

04:34 (audience cheering)

04:37 - When we figured out the route

04:40 we were gonna go with this build,

04:42 we knew we wanted it to be completely different

04:44 than anything else across the country.

04:46 It took us about six months from the time we bought the car

04:49 to the time we actually started building.

04:51 It's got a small block Chevy 305 in it

04:54 with a turbo 350 transmission.

04:56 Rear end is a GM 12-volt out of a 73 Chevrolet pickup.

05:00 Front end would then be a straight axle

05:02 that we took, cut, and widened about eight inches.

05:06 - The air cleaners, the dice, are made out of 18-gauge steel

05:09 and we formed them and bent them

05:11 and used a hole punch to punch out all the dots.

05:13 The reason we named it Nash Hole

05:15 is because Greg was getting beat up so much

05:18 he rather than cuss at it, he called it

05:21 the Nash Hole, you dang Nash Hole.

05:25 - Anywhere we go, we're getting attention.

05:27 We're putting kids in and out,

05:28 letting them take pictures all day long.

05:30 And we want them to have fun

05:32 and appreciate it just like we do.

05:34 It's something that two friends were in a garage and built.

05:37 And for us to kind of get that bond

05:39 and be able to go up on the stage together

05:40 and be told that something we built in a garage

05:43 are going to the world's largest automotive trade show,

05:46 is a pretty special moment for sure.

05:48 You're going to Vegas, baby.

05:49 (audience cheers)

05:52 - Thank you to the judges, thank you to the sponsors,

05:54 and thank you to the community.

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