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That looks suspiciously like a Hot Wheels track....

That didn't take long!

 

A not-so-hot photo of the car's been added. If I receive a better photo I'll post it.

Yep. Definitely a Hot Wheels track. Needs the plastic thing that connects them sticking out of one end.

He might be planning that.

 

I've not seen the track in person yet - he built it last night and they live 200+ miles south of me.

I brought up the red connector and the response was "Oh crap....." so I gather he forgot out that

 

Per my sister it's already in motion.

Putting on a purple C clamp is probably out of the questions :-)

LOL - probably not, but I'll mention it!

 

I don't recall our clamps being purple. A quick search turned up this photo with a yellow one and a red one, as well as this blue one, so they were probably available in a variety of colors.

 

I was up at Fry's this weekend to check out 4K monitors and walked past their small Hot Wheels section. The track connectors are now blue, and have been redesigned with a push-button to make it easier to take the track apart. The new track pieces have a half-circle cutout at the end so when two track pieces are joined they make a circle for access to the button. There's also a small hole next to the cutout that the track connector attaches to.

New photo added

I'll be in the parade this year, riding with my brother-in-law Eric and nephew Zander.

Pics or it won't have happened.

My brother-in-law and his dad arrived yesterday afternoon so my mom and I went into town to have dinner with them (they're staying at the hotel closest to the parade's staging area). My sister arrived late last night, after mom & I had already returned home.

 

Eric had shirts made up for everybody, complete with our names like the one he's wearing in the photo. We'll all be wearing them today!

Pics or it won't have happened.

 

How about video? We're at 4:56

 

https://youtu.be/n6keyhsKv2k?t=296

Thought it was going to be on the trailer...

Eric's plan was for the track to be suspended from the jeep, with cutouts for the wheels. He ran out of time to do that. He plans to have that worked out for next year.

 

The jeep's transmission is in need of work so he didn't want to tow the trailer. He had trouble shifting into gear a few times and even stalled out once, though that was after the parade was over and we where on our way to meet everybody back at the hotel.