(upbeat music) -[Carson] He builds cars, Yeah.

(upbeat music) -[Scott] For me, an auto technician, we don't have enough people in our industry the same way with the old car hobby.

Hopefully we influence them to maybe one day be a technician or maybe one day have the drive to restore an old car.

(upbeat music) -[Jessalyn] He kind of refers to himself lovingly as like a big burly bear.

But he's like the softest guy ever.

I mean, he's like the nicest guy I've ever met.

- Sure.

And get me when I cuss too.

I've always been into cars.

So as we grew up, it was me and some friends that run around at the car club meetings and hung out together while our dad's had the meetings or at other places while they were working on cars.

Since day one, I just knew I was gonna work on cars.

(engine idling) Being in the car club, that was just the normal, this is my career, this is my life.

(upbeat music) -[Narrator] Working in a mechanic shop may be a career to some, it's a passion for Scott and he hopes to pass his love of cars down to the younger generation.

-[Scott] We don't really have enough people coming up through the ranks with-the younger people like we did years ago.

And that all starts with the Hot Wheels.

(engine starting) -[Narrator] The conversation between Scott and a friend inspired an idea for children to love and learn about cars.

(upbeat music) -[Scott] It's a little book library that's been repurposed to hold Hot Wheels and it's the same idea when you're tired of your book, you would go trade it at the book library.

Well, it's the same thing.

When the kids are tired of their Hot Wheels, they can come trade it in the little Hot Wheels library and get a different car.

(upbeat music) (panting out of breath) (upbeat music) It's, it's cool.

Every kid smiles when they get one.

I mean, you'd buy somebody a cup of coffee or a drink at the bar.

Why wouldn't you get a kid a Hot Wheels and make their day?

You rarely do you ever give out a Hot Wheels and the kid doesn't just smile from ear to ear.

And the parents too.

(upbeat music) -[Jessalyn] Oh gosh, every time we see 'em, it's here.

Boys, you want some hot wheels?

You want some hot wheels.

So now it's like, what is it?

What year is it?

What make is it?

And it's, it's kind of fun.

(upbeat music) -[Interviewer] Where did all these cars come from?

- Mm mm.

-[Interviewer] How'd you... --From Scott and Scott.

-[Interviewer] Who's Scott?

The Hot Wheels guy.

(upbeat music) -[Scott] Primarily when we started, we were just doing just a little library, but we wound up with so many new Hot Wheels setting around that we had to do something with them.

So we just started handing them out to people.

(upbeat music) We give well over 500 away last year, new in the package.

And that's not counting what gets exchanged to the library.

(upbeat music) -[Jessalyn] Scott is notorious for just leaving Hot Wheels and random cracks and crevices all over town.

So it's kind of like an Easter egg hunt all the time with Hot Wheels.

(upbeat music) -He does hide them Everywhere.

-[Scott] When I walk uptown for something, sometimes we'll just kind of hide cars on the window, ledges around or on the edge of the steps on the courthouse.

What what we do is if there's car seats in the back of a car and we throw hot wheels in them car seats and the vehicle leaves.

And when they go to pick up the kids at daycare or grandma and grandpa's or school and all of a sudden they find a Hot Wheels (upbeat music) -[Narrator] A toy as simple as Hot Wheels can spark the imagination and love passed down by generations.

(kids laughing) - So every Father's Day there's a huge rod run just right around the square here in Ord.

And it's always like a huge thing is bring your dad, come look at the cars and it's really fun with the Hot Wheels now my kids are starting to figure out what cars are and what this make and model is.

So they'll be like, we have that hot wheel, the Hot Wheels library, and then the car show.

(kids squealing) -[Scott] At the end of the day, what did you do to make your community better?

That's it.

If it's a Hot Wheels for a kid, then it's a Hot Wheels for a kid.

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