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1:1 Scale

y day, Brendon Vetuskey gets to see toy cars come to life through the design and manufacturing process at his job as a designer for Hot Wheels. When he’s not on the job, Brendon is applying those same principles on objects of a much larger scale, 1 to 1. We met Brendon about five years ago at a local car show in Torrance, California, when he and his wife, Coco, showed up in his newly completed ’67 Firebird. That car made enough of an impression on your author at the time, that it ended

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