OT, crazy hot wheel track

James May, of the BBC's Top Gear, built a Scaletrix track the same size as the original Brooklands race circuit back in August 2009.

 

The magic of talented video editing! Probably had no more track than was seen in any one of those shots (launchers too). Still cool though.

 

Wow, I've still got boxes of hot wheels track in the shop. Looks like I have a rainy day project!!!!

 

Thats fun to watch!

 

Launchers? Geez, in my day we had to push the cars.

Cool video, no matter how it was shot. Someone put some effort into it, that's for sure.

 

im with big a on this one.that is ALOT of work invovled in that.so no matter how he did it its still cool as hell watching it.

 

Thanks for the post! That video brought back some memories of good times.

I STILL have nightmares about sprinting to my room as fast as I could to avoid my wooden s**** wielding momma. I always learned my lesson though.

 

Geez cool, but how much does that stuff cost? Can't imagine it is too cheap. Looks maybe $5k in parts. Maybe he is super good with the Craigslist finds.

Bonus points for the Evil Knievil spa leap though. That was creative.

 

here an update ::
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/blog...ot-Wheels-track-in-human-hi?urn=nascar-wp4642

 

OMG, as a kid with different hotwheel track that just blows me away.. all kept saying, holly ****, holly ****... look at it go... and smiling the whole time

what would it cost to build a track that big

 

Hhahahha, ..you say that like its a bad thing?

 

Awesome...and what's ironic is that my son just drug out all his Hot Wheel track stuff today when I got home from work....we're building a setup right as I saw this....haha

 

I wonder if you could do that with a sizzler car? Then you wouldn't need any launchers!

 

Sweeeet!!!!!

 

"Hmmm" watch closely, me thinks a bit of computer enhancement has taken place here, just saying.

 

they need one of these
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Excellent! Both the track and the video are really impressive.