Mint 400
This item is included in the following series/curriculum: MegaSpeed
- Grade Level: Junior High (7-9)-Adult
- Subjects: Design, Technology, Sports
- Produced By: Exploration Production Inc.
- Year: 2016
- Country: Canada
- Language: English
- Running Time: 46m
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The Mint 400 is a bone jarring, kidney bruising off-road romp in the Nevada desert featuring North America's top all-wheeled racers. The Mint is a flat out race over some of the toughest terrain known to man.
Rob MacCachren is considered a legend in off-road racing and he'll be in tough up against some of the young bucks of the sport. MacCachren isn't ready to concede anything to the future stars of the sport, but even racing icons have to deal with mechanical breakdowns. And when your truck breaks down in the middle of the desert, it comes down to how fast you get it moving again.
This episode stays with the dirt theme as we head to California where they try to get a grip and go drag racing on sand.
Car auctioneer and serious collector Craig Jackson invites into his home for a private tour of his extensive vehicle collection. When Jackson isn't running his world famous Barrett-Jackson car auctions, he's out driving one of rare exotic cars. He invites us to tag along.
In the UK we meet an eccentric inventor who's come up with a jet go-Kart, and racing up a snowy ski mountain in a jeep.