Many former Mattel designers have stated the gas powered hot wheel actually tested and ran across the factory floor and it was very noisy, smelly, incredibly fast, but not child friendly.
The Matell employee behind this incredible creation was Less Stormin.
Les chose the body style of the custom T-Bird because of the largest casting construction (alone with the likes of the Custom Continental). Records indicate that Matell had planned to release a gas powered toy car. Les Stormin was a creative designer, but never had the chance to see this creation come to fruition.
Bruce Pascal (an amazing collector and outstanding individual) acquired this car from an anonymous source in California many years ago. Bruce, in a collective transaction had sold the gas powered car to SID Belzberg in 2009. I had befriended Sid as a young collector and later acquired the gas powered car on January 6, 2014. I am forever grateful to my father and best friend Danny Spungen for introducing me to SID and his wife Paulina.
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