![]() There's no way the rookie can make it through! Not in one piece, that is. Huge crash behind the leaders! - Wait a second, Darrell. Trouble, turn three! - Get through that, McQueen. Hey! - What a ride! Go get 'em, McQueen! Go get 'em! I love you, Lightning! - Dinoco is all mine. Will he be the first rookie to win a Piston Cup and land Dinoco? The legend, the runner-up, and the rookie! Three cars, one champion! No you don't. The rookie sensation came into the season unknown. Lightning McQueen! You know, I don't think anybody expected this. His chance to finally emerge from The King's shadow. He's been chasing that tailfin his entire career. Does The King, Strip Weathers, have one more victory in him before retirement? He's been Dinoco's golden boy for years! Can he win them one last Piston Cup? And, as always, in the second place spot we find Chick Hicks. And the winner of this race will win the season title and the Piston Cup. Three cars are tied for the season points lead, heading into the final race of the season. If this gets more exciting, they're gonna have to tow me outta the booth! Right, Darrell. We're midway through what may be an historic day for racing. I'm Bob Cutlass, here with my good friend, Darrell Cartrip. Get your antenna balls here! Go, Lightnin'! - Whoo! - You got that right, slick. I am lightning! Hey, Lightning! You ready? Oh, yeah. The toy company developed flexible, plastic tracks for racing Hot Wheels, complete with the famous loop that became the symbol of the brand to several generations of kids.Took to long □ Okay. Mattel’s designers enhanced the cars’ appeal with the candy colors of Spectraflame, a painting process that revealed the shiny metal beneath the colors. ![]() Kids coveted the 16 muscle models-custom Barracudas, Camaros, Corvettes, Cougars, Firebirds, and others-that Mattel first offered in 1968. So, Mattel engineers produced 'muscle' cars with thick, plastic mag wheels built for speed and minimal friction axles that featured 'torsion-bar suspension,' which gave the cars shock absorbency and wheel bounce. And Handler wanted his little cars to zoom. What Handler really wanted was not the cars of Detroit, but the radical versions altered by custom-car shops-like vehicles he often saw on California’s highways. Handler insisted that the toy cars look authentic, so the project enlisted Harry Bradley, a top auto designer from Chevrolet, to lead the toy design team. He wanted a line of toy cars to dominate Mattel’s boys’ division just as its Barbie doll had become the strongest brand in its girls’ division. ![]() Rumor has it this was to make the Hot Wheels stand out from competitor Matchbox which made its mark delivering the most realistic cars available at the time.Īccording to the National Toy Hall of Fame, “In the 1960s, Elliot Handler, a co-founder of Mattel, Inc., envisioned a die-cast car to surpass the popular English Matchbox brand. ![]() Introduced on May 18 thof 1968 the Hot Wheels brand of toy cars were originally intended to be representations of heavily modified actual cars. ![]() The fiftieth anniversary of Mattel’s hit toy line, Hot Wheels is upon us. ![]()
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