Re: Children Building Packard Pinewood Derby cars......

Posted by JWL On 2012/11/13 10:47:37

My son and his son have won Pinewood Derby city championships when they were in the Cub Scouts. They won them with cars they built themselves. The derby racers their father "helped" them with were good, but not the fastest. I built a derby racer when my grandsons were in the cubs and got special permission to race it as a "Grandpa" entry so there would be no confusion as to who built the racer. Basically, it was a square block of wood with wheels. I wanted to see how it would run against the more sophisticated entries.It was surprisingly fast, but not the fastest. These derbies are a lot of fun for young and old.

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