The first line of Hot Wheels Cars, known as The Original Sweet 16 was manufactured in 1967. He began producing the cars with assistance from fellow engineer Jack Ryan. Hot Wheels were originally conceived by Handler to be more like " hot rod" cars (i.e., customized/modified or even caricaturized or fantasy cars, often with big rear tires, Superchargers, flame paint-jobs, outlandish proportions, hood blowers, etc.), as compared to Matchbox cars which were generally small-scale models of production cars. Handler discovered his son Kenneth playing with Matchbox cars and decided to create a line to compete with Matchbox. The original Hot Wheels were made by Elliot Handler. Although Hot Wheels were originally intended to be for children and young adults, they have become popular with adult collectors, for whom limited edition models are now made available. Many automobile manufacturers have since licensed Hot Wheels to make scale models of their cars, allowing the use of original design blueprints and detailing. It was the primary competitor of Matchbox until Mattel bought its owner Tyco Toys in 1997. Hot Wheels is an American brand of scale model cars invented by Elliot Handler and introduced by his company Mattel on May 18, 1968. For other purposes, see Hot Wheels (disambiguation). Using that math, you get a pretty good idea of just how fast this little rocketship would be.This article is about the toy line. The Quarter Mortar, meanwhile, is around 30 lbs. Such a car covers 330-feet in four seconds and the eighth in seven seconds. The closest thing we could use to compare to this car would be a legitimate Junior Dragster, where a higher-end motor will typically make around 35 horsepower in a car that averages about 350 lbs., for roughly 10 lbs. The single-cylinder “Widowmaker” motor has a complete billet crankcase, sealed clutch housings, and a WT-990 carburetor, and peaks at roughly 9.7 horsepower at 16,000 rpm’s. The remote-controlled ‘digger gets its motivation from a 38cc internal combustion motor built by O’Neill Brothers known as the “Widowmaker” that produces an estimated 10 horsepower, and is controlled by a Futaba 4PLS 4-channel radio system.Īs Konarik shared with us, 10 horsepower is pretty substantial for a car of this kind, and while the motor has never been fired, he and O’Neill Brothers are confident the car will run in the low two-second range over a 132-foot course at beastly 60 miomewhere in the range of 100 to 105 miles per hour. This pint-sized “Quarter Mortar” dragster was built by John Foster and belongs to ( and is currently being sold by) Texas native Steven Konarik, who has quite an affection for miniature-sized race cars, as you may remember him as the owner and pilot of the Arctic Cat-powered mini dragster that we featured here on Dragzine back in September. We’ve found yet another insanely awesome quarter-scale car, which is neck and neck on the cool-o-meter with the scaled-down jet dragster we found earlier in the week, and while it’s not quite on par with a Top Fuel dragster in the weight-to-horsepower department, it’s certainly impressive for what it is. Talk about impressive weight-to-horsepower ratios!
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