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Autozam kei car monster truck is Hot Wheels Legends Tour finalist

Autozam kei car monster truck is Hot Wheels Legends Tour finalist


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Hot Wheels has launched the 2022 edition of the Legends Tour, an annual road trip organized to find the next custom-built car that the firm will add to its catalog of scale models. The convoy stopped in Houston, Texas, and selected a kei-car-based monster truck as a finalist.

Built by Craig Meanx, and nicknamed "Texas Toot," the winner in Houston started life as a 1992 Autozam Scrum. Don't worry if that doesn't ring a bell: Autozam was a Mazda sub-brand that closed in 1998 and the Scrum, a tiny truck built to comply with Japan's kei car regulations, was never officially sold in the United States. Meanx went to significant lengths to ensure the Scrum can no longer be classified as a kei car.