Pinewood Derby time! N/C

Well, besides calving, wrestling, 4-H, and basketball we do cubscouts here at the Funk household.  We had our local pinewood derby the other night.  Thought it would be nice to share pictures of the cars ect.  Win or loose, I think its the boys working with there mom and or dad and having fun with friends!

Pinewood derby ruined my childhood.Dad PLAYED BY THE RULES and said you build your own,got to the Derby and no way did those kids build there own!I was devastated.those fancy paint jobs,lettering aero dynamic pieces of equipment and my chunk of wood,white,no sponsorship,painted numbers that looked like my 100 yr old grandpa painted on.terrible!!!! however went on to get my eagle scout at 14.the winners didnt acheive that.keep on scouting!!!Rusty

the angus111 said:

Pinewood derby ruined my childhood.Dad PLAYED BY THE RULES and said you build your own,got to the Derby and no way did those kids build there own!I was devastated.those fancy paint jobs,lettering aero dynamic pieces of equipment and my chunk of wood,white,no sponsorship,painted numbers that looked like my 100 yr old grandpa painted on.terrible!!!! however went on to get my eagle scout at 14.the winners didnt acheive that.keep on scouting!!!Rusty

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Ah hell ya!!!! Derby cars were the best part of cubscouts. I made mine own, I shaved it down to about an inch thick at the back and about half inch in the front and curved like a 'Vette. I put washers on the bottom for added weight and that sucker FLEW!!!! It had to be a certain weight to compete, so I added quite a few washers  ;D oh and a little planter graphite never hurt the wheels, but I didnt say that  ;D

herefordfootball said:

Ah hell ya!!!! Derby cars were the best part of cubscouts. I made mine own, I shaved it down to about an inch thick at the back and about half inch in the front and curved like a 'Vette. I put washers on the bottom for added weight and that sucker FLEW!!!! It had to be a certain weight to compete, so I added quite a few washers  ;D oh and a little planter graphite never hurt the wheels, but I didnt say that  ;D

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sounds like what i did with my car.

was the middle of your car hollowed out?

lmao, no we didnt hollow it out, but it got 2nd place overall so that was pretty sweet  ;D

sounds like the show calf industry.

knabe said:

sounds like the show calf industry.

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Gidget, looks like the kids had a blast and thats whats important!!! Thanks for sharing the pictures, they are really cool

I agree

Knabe if you only knew!!! keep building boys its the racing we loved! For us herein Nw iowa the thrill was winning at the pack and going to Sioux Falls to get into scoutarama races.Both my boys went won pack etc and we had a ball! CArs looked just like yours and thats what you get when the kids do the work! We had one family who owned a body shop cars looked just like reproductions but no speed!! But those boys still drag race so the interest was different than what we had in mind.Fun Fun Fun!!!P.S. should have seen DAds face when he had to carve that camaro lookalike up to make weight!! Priceless 

P.S. should have seen DAds face when he had to carve that camaro lookalike up to make weight!! Priceless   
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Hahaha!!! We had a few people that had to do that at my race when I was a younger. The kid was like whatever, but I'm pretty sure the dad was on the brink of tears lol you know who did the work there.  (lol)  :

Funny to see this topic this morning.  I was talking to a friend of mine this week about the Pinewood Derby and he said people sell finished cars on eBay and sure enough I took a look and there is a car listed at $225 and lots of cars for over $100  :-\