The Internet is a strange place. I can guarantee you that none of our forefathers would have guessed that we’d see a Hot Wheels car driving around via livestream for a week and a half, but here we are. is the work of diecast endurance on YouTube, and after driving a miniature Ford GT to 13,459 scale miles on a belt sander a few weeks ago, the host has been torturing a miniature Mazda 787B almost ever since.
So, there was actually a car between two minor Le Mans winners: A Toyota Soarer That Lasted Three Days On penal equipment. But that didn’t stop the Mazda prototype, which has clocked in at 284 hours at the time of publishing. can you believe it?!
The ticker on the left side of the screen says Hot Wheels has covered 30,615 scale miles. For reference, the Earth’s circumference is 24,901 miles, and the actual Le Mans-winning 787B covered only 3,059.79 miles in 1991. Even when you remove the scale qualifier, the actual measured distance he traveled is a wildly impressive 478 miles and counting.
YouTube livestreams are apparently limited to 12 hours if you want to automatically archive them, and the channel is currently on its 29th separate upload for this car. It’s playing in the background as I write this, accompanied by the constant whirring of the plastic wheels mounted on the belt.
The amount of grit accumulated on the Mazda’s metal body is impressive. Although the car started this experiment with a completely white paint job and blue decals, it has a lot of black spots on its profile – in particular, on the right side. Not to get it confusing, but the entire car is now very seriously spinning around as the rear left wheel slides back and forth on its axis. This wear is reflected not only in the particulates removed, but also in the temperatures, as the two wheels I mentioned are the hottest at 88 degrees and 89 degrees Fahrenheit. (The ambient temperature is 86.6 degrees, while the cockpit is a skosh toastier at 90 degrees flat.)
I don’t know how long this case will continue. I doubt anyone saw it going on for nearly 12 days, let alone a week. It’ll be sad when it finally goes away, but one thing’s for sure: the 787B has set a benchmark, and I’ll be curious to see if anything else can beat it.
God bless, little boy. Or as they say in Japan:
Mazda 787B – Endurance Run – Hour 267 – 277
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