Hey everyone, I am a newbie, but have watched this site for quite some time. I guess I was just waiting to have something good to post! I recently was one of the winners of the Hot Wheels 40th Anniversary Design Challenge. I won't go into all the details, but there were 6 companies, Ford, GM, Chrysler, Mitsubishi, Honda, and Lotus that had winning designs. I just thought I'd show you mine. My car is called the Ford Gangster Grin. Some of the influences for the car were the 49 Ford, custom Mercurys, and a little Linclon in there too! The model is 1/5 scale as you can see by the photo with me. It was a blast to do this project, and even better that Ford allowed me to participate and take so much time out of my work days to do it! -Steve
That's pretty cool. Is it made outta clay?? Where in Redford are you? I'm at Middlebelt and Schoolcraft. In the summer months there are a group of HAMB folks that hang out at the cruz night on Schoolcraft at Inkster on Tuesday nights. You'll have to join us one night.
I saw the article on all those entries. They looked pretty cool! Here is my Hot wheels design. Ha Ha Ha
I also saw an article on those, and your's is the only one I liked. It's pretty damn bitchin. Now SOMEONE needs to make a 60 Buick HotWheel and I'll be in heaven.
WOW! impressive. When I look at the 3/4 rear view, I envision a 49' Buick Sedanette as the basis for this..... Although I did bang my head this morning.
that thing is kickass! when will the actual small cars be released? and when it does, i want to send you mine and get it signed by the orginal maker! kickass design!
very cool, i always feel like a big kid when i go into a store and start searching through all the hotwheels looking for that one i just got to have, any idea when yours is coming out?, heres a couple of pics of a hotwheels track-t i have been working on, it started out looking like the yellow one, have more to do like add a duvel windshield. maybe the HAMB should have a hotwheels contest with the top 5 being made into hotwheels.?
I can't remember where I saw the pictures, but I'm pretty sure it already is fullscale. I believe it was at SEMA this year...
There are a couple of lurkers here who do custom hot wheels and they are amazing. "Hingeman" is one of them and the other guys name is Matt, but I don't remember his screen name. I dabble in some customs... but not too much lately and nothing to write home about... just a time waster