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“Reboot Buggy” Wins Detroit Stop of Hot Wheels Legends Tour
Drawing visual inspiration from horseless carriages of the late 19th Century and performance inspiration from a 6.3-liter Chevrolet V-8 is quite the combo, but that’s the sort of creativity that caught the eyes of the judges on the Hot Wheels Legends Tour.
“Reboot Buggy” is the brainchild of Michigan-based artist Joey Ruiter. The hand-built steel-tube chassis is reminiscent of something from a video game that’s only partially loaded, but that’s part of the charm. It’s exactly the sort of thing that would look epic as a 1:64-scale toy car.
Regardless of how you feel about the styling, the performance on tap here is undeniable. Reboot Buggy uses a mid-mounted, 6.3-liter Chevy V-8 mated to a Turbo 400 transmission to power the rear wheels. Those wheels, by the way, are shod in 40-inch Yokohama M/T tires, and the build reportedly has 28 inches of suspension travel.
Detroit was the fourth U.S. stop on the Hot Wheels Legends Tour, with previous stops including Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. The next stop will be June 28 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with events in Texas, California, Nevada, and Kansas to follow.
Reboot Buggy will join the winners from the other stops at the end of the year, where one winner will be selected to represent the United States region and go head-to-head with winners from the European, Middle Eastern, and Latin American regions. Last year’s winner, La Liebre, hailed from Chile.
If that won then the rest of the cars must have been terrible or no one else showed up.
1969 firebird convertible got stolen from Medford lakes New Jersey looking for another one anybody got any
This might look pretty good on it:
https://www.hagerty.com/marketplace/classified/1972-Honda-N-600/1e04ea4f-9165-4490-8e2b-274000b093b1
Anything would look better on it
Usually hot wheel cars have a cool futuristic vibe, not an ugly wannabe rat rod trash looking thing!! UGH!!
I went there and didn’t even give that thing a second look. Yes there was some boring cars there that really didn’t have a chance, but there definitely was at least half a dozen solid contenders.
I didn’t see the other car’s but anything else would be better
Keep it moving folks. Nothing to see here.
It’s a 6.3 and a TH400 on a mid engined square tube chassis. There’s zero imagiation to it. It’s just a driveable chassis. The only thing I’m seeing here is the wheels’ resemblance to Hot Wheels’s most basic, ho-hum, yawn 5SP wheels. I’m sure he has a lot of time and money in this thing, but to bring an old saying out of retirement that was around decades before I was ever even born… “There’s much ado about nothing”.
Spot on
how embarrassing
Not sure how this wins an award. If I put a wooden plank and attached some wheels to it, it would not be that far off this thing.
I’m confused 🤔,
He chose a 50 plus year old Transmission ,
To mate into a 2025 model vehicle
Didn’t this thing sell at auction recently???
Looks like a customized scissor lift. One more reason to stop collecting Hot Wheels.
Just… No.
Engine stand with wheels. Zzzz