| Typ311Dave |
Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:23 pm |
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I know we have some Scouts in here, show us your Pine Wood Derby cars!
This past weekend was the Pine Wood Derby for Pack 928 (San Diego - Imperial Council). This is my son's first year as a Cub Scout and his first Pine Wood Derby.
I'd like to say that we worked on his car for a whole month, but we actually didn't start working on it until the morning of the Derby which was yesterday morning. So with the block of wood I cut a shape and we sanded it down, resawed grooves for the axle (was not 90 degrees), he painted it Gulf Blue L390, same as my 62 Notch, put the axles (nails) and wheels on, giving 16th of an inch clearance to the wood, and away we went to the Derby.
Rule is nothing more than 5.00 ounces, and we weighed in at 4.30. Since I didn't have any weights, one of the pack dads, hooked us up with weights which we taped on the car, and after getting it right, weighed in at a perfect 5.00 ounces! Little graphite here and there and we were ready.
My son won his first 3 races, then was tied for second and forced in a race-off, and got third overall in his Den. My son was estatic, and I was really happy for him and to share these memories with him. Not bad for first time and a Saturday morning project at that. So now my son and I have a prototype for next year to improve on. The first pic is of my son at the weigh in (right next to our Den leader), the overall winner for the whole pack was the red wedge with the side pipes on the first row, he will be going to Qualcomm stadium to compete.
Our number 9 car:
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| Ecoh72 |
Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:35 pm |
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oh man, ill have to dig mine out of a box and take photos..
being an Eagle Scout means I havent touched them in a while... |
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| VintageVulture |
Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:17 pm |
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| Sheesh- This is what got me into VWs! I wanted to build a Porsche powered VW Bug so I bought a VW Trends mag and that was it... I have to take pics of the car soon to post, it was quite a functional ride! Opening hood w/ Porsche spare, open ragtop w/ porsche dash and all seats, 911 mirrors, wipers, four cyl Turbo motor sticking out the back as well as flames and more... I used a plastic 911 model and two blocks of wood to gain enough height for the ragtop and interior. It must have taken over a hundred hours but got me a first place trophy in the design category... It was the slowest Porsche ever built! I wish I had some pics!!!!!!!! |
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| EZ Gruv |
Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:57 am |
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This thread pretty much has it covered:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=203942&highlight=pinewood |
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