Hot Wheels Legends Tour Lands in Michigan with Wicked Mustangs!
Once again, Hot Wheels inspires builders to put their best work to be made into a 1:64 diecast with this year’s national tour.
Keeping to tradition, Hot Wheels is hosting another Legends Tour across the nation. It started in March, and will go on until October. Each stop hosts a vast collection of customized cars, the likes of which look as though they belong on a Hot Wheels diecast car. Which, in case you’re new to the game, is the whole point of Hot Wheels’ shows — the winner is immortalized as a Hot Wheels toy. The chance of a custom car being made into a 1:64 scale version of the real deal draws thousands of hopeful contestants. The winners of each show will be presented at this year’s SEMA auto show, where the attendees will decide who is most worthy.
Ford Performance covered the Hot Wheels Legends stop in the Walmart parking lot of Dearborn, Michigan. This year the tour is sponsored by Walmart, so all shows took place in their lots after business hours. In a matter of a few hours, the parking spots were filled with customized cars. Several Fords rolled through, with amazing and unique builds. There were trucks built for crippling speeds, Crown Victoria’s made to look like something straight out of Mad Max, and a plethora of other decked out cars. But course, The Mustang Source is only interested in the Mustangs that came to the party—in the city where it all began for them, no less.
Many more “modern” Mustangs came to play. For instance, the one pictures above was modified with both body, engine, and paint modifications. The one below also portrays the personality the driver envisioned for the car. From blacked out headlights, custom wheels and lug nuts and plenty of decals, to us it most definitely fits the criteria to be a Hot Wheels toy.
In true Hot Wheels fashion, some participant entries were in showroom condition. Mustangs from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s made an elegant appearance. Though, there were also other cars from those decades that had some truly inspiring additions (or, sometimes, subtractions). Most of the Mustangs from the 1960s were in stellar, showroom condition.
Ford Performance made an excellent point about this tour’s significance; the appeal, aesthetic, and ultimate goal does wonders for inspiring the up and coming custom builders of the country. They look at the manifestations of people’s imaginations and creative visions, and feel inspired to bring their concepts—no matter how wild or “weird”— to life. The Hot Wheels Legends tour is an important and innovative way to plant inventive seeds into young minds. Every year, the designs get more wild and intricate, so clearly the formula is successful. For more information on the tour, click here.
Photos: Artisan Rich Media
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