Pinewood derby coming up. Any pics/design ideas?

[PocketThunder]

Here is my sons car, the black one was this year, the yellow one was last year.  We got our butt kicked this year.  worse than last year.  I guess i didnt spend enough time polishing the nails.  Next year we'll get better at it.  Those are 68 Charger lug nuts recessed in black car for weight.  One in the back and two underneath in the back.  And one drywall screw (last minute) to weigh in at 4.995 oz.

Paul

[moparstuart]

 

[69_500]

Well the boys car was not very fast at all but he did win first place with the best design. Will resize pics and post later. I am thinking that 99% of the other cars were built entirely by the dads. I helped him start to cut out the design but he painted it, applied decals, and installed wheels. Which is why it was so slow. He would not listen when I told him we needed to polish nails and apply some graphite and hone and balance wheels. Instead he just mounted them and let's just say it is very obvious it was the 8 year old who put the crooked wheels on.

[69_500]

Here is Dakota with his ribbon and car.

[nvrbdn]

its supposed to be about the kids. when my oldest was in the scouts we had dads that took their boys cars to work for their engineers to build. those cars would kick our butts. but what did the kids learn. the dad would be saying dont touch the car while he watched all the other kids rolling theirs around on the floor.

[nvrbdn]

congrats to you being a good dad and letting him do it.

[Fred]

An older thread link showing what a couple of my kids did:

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,22592.0.html

Those cars are really cool!!   10 out of 10 

[hemigeno]

An older thread link showing what a couple of my kids did:

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,22592.0.html

Those cars are really cool!!   10 out of 10 

Thanks!

I did the layout, but had the kids do most of the cutting (I still had to do some of the trickier cuts by the tailpanel), sanding, machining for the wheels/axles, and they did all of the painting, etc.  They were proud of the results even if the "dad-powered" cars ended up winning the actual races.

After all the work I had them do, they didn't ask to do the races the next year - since I told them that with one under their belt, they could do even more of the work the following year 


BTW, cool cars, Paul!  Successful results are measured in kids' smiles, not wins on the track.

Hey Danny - tell Dakota "Congrats" for me - nice looking car even if he didn't paint it his favorite color!

[moparstuart]

    great cars guys


  ians car from like 3 years ago 

[69_500]

Yeah could not find any cans of T7 at any hobby stores. So went with the old reliable Petty Blue.

[Fred]

An older thread link showing what a couple of my kids did:

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,22592.0.html

Those cars are really cool!!   10 out of 10 

After all the work I had them do, they didn't ask to do the races the next year - since I told them that with one under their belt, they could do even more of the work the following year 

Kids................gotta love them!