Harry Bradley in The Toys That Built America

[Music] Harry Bradley was a real car designer a lot of his designs were on tour at car shows all over the country as they're developing this car Bradley's working on sketches trying to determine what the look of this thing will be and he's just having a very hard time with it Harry we didn't hire you just a big toy cars look better I'm gonna look like the sexiest car driving down Sunset Strip Elliot's drawn to an emerging 1960s car Trend guys were customizing cars and Hot Rodding cars if you're in Southern California you're going to see hot rods Elliott Handler's idea was to bring the California Custom culture to kids all over the world Elliot realizes that that the look of this hot rodded El Camino is critical to what they're trying to do here they're going to use established car designs but the look they're going to go for is this custom look that is distinct from production cars [Music] Handler approves several of Bradley's new designs including one he considers his Surefire golden ticket [Music] Ruthie you are gonna love it let's see what you've got [Music] what is that I've never even seen a sports car like that it's the new Corvette Stingray Chevy are doing a total redesign next year top to bottom how do you know Harry saw the blueprints Harry Bradley still had friends at General Motors the rumor has it that he got the plans for the 1968 Corvette before the 68 Corvette was at the car dealers and if we get this to Market soon our toy car will beat the real car before it even rolls off the assembly line now whether that's true or not we really don't know but the timing of the release with the 68 Corvette um they're they're pretty close Handler names his new toy Hot Wheels but just as Mattel gets ready for its big launch I'm resigning huh designing toys is fun but I design real cars that's that's just who I am with the 1968 Toy Fair looming Elliott Handler must carry on without the genius behind his designs the day

Channel: Arthur Wilde

Views: 796

Keywords: history channel, harry bradley, hot wheels, counting cars, toys that built america

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Length: 3min 23sec (203 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 25 2022