- I've heard several comments, you know,
about the tracker itself
and they come up all the time.
There's no way that's real.
All that's fake.
You know, you just got all this plastic
stuff on top of the stock four cylinder engine
and so when I crank it up I say
I don't think it still sounds stock, do it?
But it is all real, 100%.
You just gotta see it to believe it.
(engine revs) (soft techno music)
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- Thanks everyone for coming.
I was just all about bringing the community together.
Bringing those car fans.
Bringing all those toy fans.
All those fans that would gather for the brand
for the past 50 years.
- Okay, the wood car.
Unbelievable craftsmanship.
Everything about it was amazing.
- [Second Judge] Great, yeah.
- But when it's a Hot Wheels that big
it wouldn't be a in your face type of car.
- It wouldn't stand out.
- [Judge] I like the ice cream truck.
- [Judge] I think that definitely would
be a Hotwheels.
- [Second Judge] Absolutely.
- [Judge] The problem is we're kind of
after horse power here.
- [Second Judge] The Hummer.
I think that thing's killer but
we've got three rat rods already with dual, you know, so.
The Geo Tracker.
- [Judge] That's definitely in the ball park
because we've never done one to start with.
- [Third Judge] The Tracker issues would probably be
decoration part of it and from a toy perspective
would now be docked--
- These guys could tone it down a little bit.
- We could tone it down a little bit.
- Maybe even take a couple
of the Nitrous bottles off.
- Yeah. (laughing)
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- There's some horse power in here
and that was the theme this year.
So we narrowed it down to one car.
It's hard to believe.
And it is the Chevy Geo Tracker.
(crowd cheers)
- There's nothing else to describe it.
That's a dream come true.
When they said Geo Tracker Delton Hubbard
all in the same sentence and Hot Wheels
that was it.
Dream come true.
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My name is Delton Hubbard
and today we're at the Hot Wheels show
in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I'm a retired US Army
and I just build cars on the side as a hobby.
It's just a passion.
I wouldn't really call it a shop.
It's just a backyard garage,
something we love to do.
It's just driven by the love and the passion
of cars and build 'em.
So it's definitely family participation 100%.
Well obviously I had hot wheels when I was younger
and kind of didn't know what I had, you know.
You're playing with them and since 1995
its been an obsession of collecting
and collecting and collecting and it's grown outta control.
So we had to move it to the next level
would build a life size Hot Wheels.
What I did for the Geo Tracker kind of evolved
from just years of Hot Wheels
so me and my son, as he got bigger,
the Hot Wheels crave got bigger.
So we started looking at 'em
and looking at 'em and said
what if I build a bigger car
to look like a Hot Wheel?
So my son he says, "Gotta have an engine Daddy,
"you know, you've gotta have pipes on it
"it's gotta look fast.
It's gotta sound fast or it won't be a Hot Wheels."
That being said,
when we first started this project it was
intensively meant to be a Hot Wheels themed vehicle.
As you can see from the Ghost and that Treasure Hunt symbol.
That was done purposely to be a Hot Wheels.
So how else to do it was to go bigger,
badder, over the top.
So the name evolved Never Enough
'cause no matter what we did,
it was never enough.
The engine has a small block Chevrolet 350.
It is a real blown, blower engine.
The Eagle crank rods.
It's just, what I like to say,
a big horse power engine
in a little toy car.
I think there's maybe 11 Nitrous bottles on it total.
It's a theme behind it of being
never enough of never enough Nitrous bottles.
Each bottle serves a purpose,
like on the engine and on the back.
So it's just never enough.
My brother and my son said
"Do not put a wind up key on it".
I said it's a toy!
I said 'm putting it on.
I said "now it looks more like a toy.
It's gotta giant wind up key on the back.
So when I started to go in the shows,
people they'd come around,
they'd go oh my God, I love the wind up key.
That's what made it.
The key is what made it!
And I would just look at my brother
and my son and say now you gonna listen
to the things I say?
I came definitely in the spirit of fun.
It was a fan of participation 100%.
But I gotta be honest,
the entire time I had my fingers crossed.
I had my toes crossed,
and I'm walking around looking at competition,
I'm like oh there's some stiff competition out here.
There's a lot of Hot Wheels in this parking lot.
And I was worried.
And I was sweating, I got picked.
And when I got picked it was literally a dream come true.
It's going down in history now
because this is something to say
I built this in my backyard, with my son,
and now it's there.
I mean it's gonna be a potential Hot Wheels.
It's going to Vegas.
So that being said, the other guys
that's gonna be competing against this,
just pack a lunch and come because I'm bringing it.
I'm bringing everything I got with it.
It's gonna be more polished than its ever been polished.
It's gonna be more shined than its ever been shined.
This shirt right here, it's gonna be ironed crisp.
I'm bringing my A game.
So anybody that's got to step up beside this Tracker,
you better bring it.
'Cause like I said. Hot Wheels, I'm all in, 100%.
If I have to push it there,
I'm gonna drop the mic when I get there.
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