- When I think of Hot Wheels I think of like--
racing them and smashing them.
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- We're only looking for a car
that someone built themselves.
A car that someone actually got hands-on, down and dirty,
got some grease under their fingernails,
so that's really important to us.
After a lot of deliberation, and so many cars
that we wanted to pick, we finally land on a winner,
and I just want to congratulate Dylan Brinkworth.
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Come on up buddy, hey!
Congratulations, man.
Why doesn't your dad come on up as well?
They're a '73 240Z.
So awesome, such a cool build, I mean,
that car really stood out to us,
it captured everything that we're looking for,
congratulations!
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- Him and I are both Hot Wheels fans, right?
Thought it'd be pretty exciting
to be part of that kind of thing?
Didn't have really any inclination
that we'd actually win it,
cause we thought there's a lot of crazy cool cars out there.
By close to the end when they announced our name,
I was completely shocked,
I didn't even know how to even react, what about you?
- Same as you, pretty much,
but I almost cried, I don't know why.
Like, at every other show that we go to and win,
is not as like, exciting.
This is cool 'cause it's like, every kid's dream.
- It's a 1973 Datsun 240Z,
I acquired it from a friend from high school.
He had it when he was 16, and then it got parked,
and it pretty much just died there.
I tried to get it from him as many times I could,
but he would just-- refused to sorta,
let it go and then eventually one day he says,
"You know what? If you want it, come pick it up."
So I came down, it had a tree growing
right through the middle of it,
so we had to cut the tree down in order
to get the car out of there, trailered it up
and then I said to my son, "Is this something that
you wanna have a project together with," right?
So he looked at me, he's like "Dad, that looks pretty bad."
- I thought it would be like, a really long project.
- [Bill] Slowly but surely, it started becoming a car,
we got it running, we got most of the holes fixed.
- It was really fun because it's like, half the stuff
that I like, and half the stuff that Dad likes into one car.
- [Bill] We did bodywork and then the paint,
and then the fender-flares, and it just grew from there.
- I like everything, but my favorite parts are
the fender-flares and then,
all the different things that me and Dad did.
- [Bill] So he did some sketches first and I was like,
"Wow that actually looks kinda cool."
So I put boards into it with some foam
and body filler and Plexiglas,
all first to make the originals, and then we made molds,
and then we laid up our fiberglass castings from there,
and that's how they become now.
And now we actually manufacture 'em ourselves
and supply them to other people all over the world.
It's an L28 bore and stroke, cammed, custom intake
by a good friend of mine, Mack in MDA,
and the exhaust are incredibly loud,
so, it attracts a lot of attention to
the law enforcement most of the time, too.
From building the car from nothing to this,
and getting the recognition for it,
it means a whole lot.
Like, we're not into the whole trophies
and that kind of stuff, but when we get in the car
and we start the car, and we drive down the road,
It's just a great feeling, a great accomplishment
to know that we've done that all ourselves.
So, I mean, to me, that's-- it's him and I.
It's what we've done together, to make what we have today.
- And also, not just about all the trophies,
but about having a good time.
- A lot of people do builds because
they like what someone else has done, they're like,
"Oh wow, love those wheels,
and I love that color and whatever."
And my standpoint is, I'm only gonna build
the way I want it to be built.
That's why I built it-- this,
the way it is because it's--
that's the way I want it, it's wild, it's crazy,
and it's very much like Hot Wheels.
The way I've always remembered them
is being really colorful and just kinda fun, right?
If this was small, I'd play with it for sure,
and I'm sure you would, right?
- When I think of Hot Wheels, I think of cool little cars.
Little toys that kids could play with,
and also if they like cars and that's
what they could start with.
They could see a real cool car and they could be like,
"Dad, I wanna build that when I'm older."
And they could be like that.
- Hot Wheels to me, it's been something since,
obviously when I was a little kid, just the same as him,
was collecting them, and smashing them up most of
the time when I was younger, and now is different,
we buy one each, one I have in the packet,
I put it on the wall and one he has that he opens up
and pretty much does what he wants with it.
We got a pretty big collection, we could definitely
fill a room wall to wall in packages.
- My pile is sorta like, it's smaller 'cause
it doesn't have all the boxes, his are boring,
they're still stuck in the box.
Mine I can play with, I can wheel them off the bed,
and then his are just stuck on the wall.
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- To me, it would be an honor
to have it as a Hot Wheels, for sure.
- I think it'd be really cool to have our car
as a little Hot Wheels, and I think that'd be
the one car that I wouldn't roll off the bed.
- With all the work that we put into it,
and to see it in a model form, amazing.
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