1300 Cars On Our Superbike!

A photographic journey through the making of the 1300 Hot Wheels xBhp Hayabusa

- Karan Singh Bansatta

They say you never really grow up. Only the desires change as the older ones are suppressed to give way to new ones. However, there are a few things, like chocolates and Hot Wheels cars, that manage to stay with us throughout our lives. For us, living our life like a movie or a video game has been the motivating force since our childhood. So when it came to using 3000 cars creatively, how could we not bring a helmet into the picture. And a cool backpack. And last but not the least – one of the world’s fastest bikes, the mighty Hayabusa, or as most of India knows it as – the Dhoom bike.

And something else. A door. A door, because it signifies progress and positivity. New opportunities. And what’s better than a door covered with 1000 Hot Wheels cars? Enough drama. Let’s get straight to business on how we did this. It all started when we wanted to do up our xBhp HQ wall in a different way. We had enough photos from our road trips in 55 countries to go to the moon and back, and then some. We wanted something different. Something that pops out.

Hot Wheels was a natural choice. They are colourful. They are durable (drop one from the top floor of Burj Khalifa and one may still find them intact, but the same cannot be said about the windshield of a Lamborghini… or a Rolls-Royce perhaps). They are light. They are relatively inexpensive. And they look fantastic to a point that some of them seem to have been designed by aliens… or extremely creative people smoking the best kinda weed there is. They are like building blocks. You can literally cover anything with Hot Wheels if you have enough of them. So we got 3000 of them at the xBhp HQ i.e. enough of them.