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Short Bus Short – TTF Special Delivery
By DK | November 15, 2009 |
What you see here, is in my opinion the greatest piece of work ever done by a chilehead. Back in 2008, Hudd custom built these little gems for 20 of his friends and distributed them at the 2008 Weekend of Fire at Jungle Jim’s in Fairfield Ohio. All 20 of these custom Hot Wheels Dairy Delivery vans were hand painted and decaled one by one. I’m unsure of the actual time spent on each one, but I’m sure it was several hours each.
These were done back in 2008, so why do a post now you might ask? Well, a few days ago, Hudd sent me an email with a couple of pictures attached. The settings on his camera had gotten out of whack and he was shooting some test pics with it and he snapped off a couple of shots of his own custom TTF Dairy.
Hey DK,
Not sure if anyone else took their Taste the Fear Dairy Delivery out of the package or not, so I took a couple up close pics of mine. Just playing around with the camera this morning.
see ya hudd
I know for a fact that I haven’t opened mine. And I don’t plan too! It’s just too awesome to open. 
And although I know these little jewels have been discussed here on TTF, most likely in the NFZ or the WOF posts, I don’t think there’s actually any pictures of them. Maybe in a gallery of the WOF show pics? I’ll have to look back and see. But Hudd’s pics I’m pretty sure are the only one’s taken of one out of the package. Besides, not only are the pics awesome and post worthy by themselves, but this awesome project that Hudd put together for the chilehead community to share not only his love of hot sauce, but also his passion for collecting Hot Wheels, deserves whole lot more. So a post is the least I can do.
So enough from me. Check out the pics below of this awesome work of art from Hudd. I’ve also included a few pics of my #9 to show the packaging as well as the other details not seen in Hudd’s pictures. Details like the numbering on the package and the bottom of the van, as well as the package itself.
Hudd, THANK YOU again for such an awesome gift. You Rock bro. :grinn:
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Topics: Friends, Hot Sauce Collectibles, Short Bus Shorts | 17 Comments »
#1 Baby…These collector cars are way cool. We love the one that HUD gave us.
Thanks for the post DK! I like the borders you put around my pics. I ended up having around 75-80 hours in the project over 4 weeks time.
I started by drilling out the rivets that hold them together and took them all apart. I put the bodies into paint stripper and after several hours in the stripper, I cleaned them off and primed and repainted the bodies. After the bodies were good and dry the decals went on. I had a guy I’ve gotten in touch with through my Hot Wheels collecting make the TTF decals for me. I emailed him what I was looking for and this is what he come up with. Putting the decals on was the most time consuming. The ones on the sides had to be pressed into the body panels and all the air pushed out so they would have no air bubbles under them. You can look close and see the recessed panels and gas cap on most of them. Once they dried I sprayed the bodies with a few coats of clear to get a good shine. Once the clear was dry I reassembled them and used epoxy in place of the rivets that I had drilled out. I got on the computer and printed out the header cards, packaged the things up and there you go!
Mine is out of the package only because I have it in a display case with about 25 other Dairy Deliveries I have customized. I enjoyed making these for everyone and I’m trying to replenish my stock of Dairy Deliveries for a future custom project. They are pretty hard to find because so many of us Hot Wheelers use them for customs.
Hope everyone that got one enjoys displaying theirs half as much as I enjoyed making them for everyone.
I have one of these – that are great!!!!
Ours is unopened also..I wouldn’t want to take it out of the package. It sits right in the front of the hot sauce cabinet.
Oh shit I play with mine all the time. I set up a cool hot wheels track. Crap hey Hud will you repaint mine. I think mine was #1. Yep it was #1.
JUst kidding. still in package love it.
I LOVE MY TRUCK!! Hudd is the KING of Hot Wheels customization. Do I see a “Redline” version for the future? Just kiddin Hudd.
I need to spend some time with my son this winter building a few Hot Wheels customs. We’ve built about a dozen so far. It’s fun, cheap, and is great for “bonding” time.
How about a custom CFPC Surf Crate?
I have #13 and I keep it right up on the shelf over my desk, I took it out of the package…ooops!
It is very special!!!
Yep, thanks once again Hudd for a very cool collectible. I am so glad to have received one of these.
You may have something in the mail in the next week or so Hudd.
Shit because I don’t buy hot sauce anymore nobody sends me anything. Boohoo
Very nice Dairy. Turned out great, Hudd.
Thanks alot Dan. Welcome to TTF. Look around and enjoy yourself, there’s a bunch of really nice people that hang around here.
Welcome to TTF Happy Death!
DK, I saw a post from Happy Death on a Hot Wheels/diecast site, CLICK HERE a couple weeks ago that he makes hot sauce. I told him to come check us out and to check out my Dairy I done for everyone.