o/t pine car

my kids are biulding there pinewood derby cars just proud of them wanted to show off

 

those are bad*** derby cars there for sure best of show at the derby

 

i used to do that stuff. it was a fun *** time with my grandpa. my last one was a earlyyy style circle track car. no pictures though

 

I did that with my son when he was in Cub Scouts. If you want them to go fast, work on the wheels and axels "nails." Yoy can go to a hobby shop that sells pine cars and get a kit to work over the wheels. And a molybdamen power for lube. All legal for pine cars.

 

not too o/t - they're just minuture ,unpowered hotrods right?

 

Kool !, how old are your kids Kus. ?

 

im doing my girlfriends nephew's car, last year we did a cool lake car with a track nose, i wish i had pictures of it, we even made a little windshield out of plastic and the frame out of coat hanger- he didnt win for speed, but he won for best craftsmanship

its still on display at the family market!

this year he wants to go with maroon and gold and we agreed on whitewalls with matching maroon "steelies" im proud of this kid

 

thanks for the feed back
i i just thought it was cool to see them think big like this last year my 8 year old built a pickup and my 7 year old built a station wagon. so i got in on the fun and built a sedan. to show them we didn't have to build cars that looked like all the others. so this year they wanted fenders and from there they really surprised me. it's all so cool to see how they both go in so very different directions. the truck was glued then cut and the winged car was cut then glued.
heres last years cars

 

That's some outstanding pinewood derby cars you got there! The only cool one looked like the Deora but I ran it with the cab facing the back. I guess great minds think alike when you're young.

 

Man you guys put us to shame. We just did a basic wedge design, our race is this weekend. I cant post any pics as our camera just bit the dust

 

nicely done...takes me back to when i was in scouts trying whittle one of those. mine resembled a dried dog turd more than a car tho...

 

wow now that took some vision

 

That car gave me wood.

 

seal that wood up nice and get out the airbrush, lay on some nice traditional flames.

 

So did mine, but we had some kid in our troop that just slaped the wheels on that rectangular hunk of wood and did nothing to it.

 

Awesome!!......cool thread, brings back memories.

 

Now that is some nice looking paint!

 

Very cool, I still have all of mine here. One real big a couple years. Cant wait until LilT is old enough for this!

 

I still have all of mine, no pics though. My favorite was my first one, a real simple but sweet little race car we painted metalic blue. My Dad helped me build it, he said "Hang on, I know just what this thing needs..." came back with some .30-06 bullets from his reloading stuff. Drilled four holes in the back & had them sticking up like exausts. All the weight was on the back so it didn't do well at the track. Try sending your kid out with some bullets hangin' off his car nowadays and he'd probly get arrested!

Later- John

 

wow. back when i was a kid, none of the kids in my troop had such cool looking pinewoods. i remember my dad put a candy paint job on mine one year though, and did a lot of engineering for performance to win-- he used to take it a lot more seriously that i did

-scott noteboom

 

if you can keep anyone sober long 'nuff

 

Nice job guys! I remember doing that when I was in Scouting. Those cars look way better than mine did.
best of luck to you kids at the races! Let us know how you do!
John

 

You gotta post when this is done - very cool!

 

Here's one we did a few years ago, back when "got milk" was popular....

 

My son's pinewood derby is next month. It is real fun to share this experience with him, just like my dad did with me. He wants to build a '32 roadster - so that's the plan. The cool thing about the Cub Scout Pack he's in - is, they have compe***ion for the Dads. They wanted the boys to do most of their own work, so they let the Dads build their own.
Pretty cool, I thought.

 

I think a lot of the derby cars are more of a compe***ion for the fathers build skills. I remember when I was in cub scouts (60's) my dad never really let me have a real hand in it. I got to put on some decals. As a kid it really took the fun out of it for me because it really wasn't "my" car.

 

My kid did this one last year and then they wouldn't let him run it because we switched the axles and wheels from the cub scout kit they gave us to the one that came with a kit from hobby lobby. that ****ed.

 

Hats off to any man that well take the time to help a kid get started in the hobby.

 

Nice looking cars on here! Can't wait to build these with my kids.

One tip that worked for us when I was in cub scouts: polish the hell out of the nails (axles), it really lowers the turning resistance of the wheels.

 

this brings back some memories. i remember when i had to do it. i drew out the profile and had my brother cut it out on a bandsaw in his wood shop cl***, i sanded it and painted it, it looked like a roadster with a slanted down front nose and a mustang model hood scoop glued on. i was always around cars as a kid and i cant for the life of me figure out what it was i wanted it to look like, or where i got the idea from, but it was cool and i technically won 1st place, but the pack leader or whatever it was called bumped me so their kids could win. really pissed me off and at that point i realized the cub scouts wasnt for me. i think i got stuck with a 3rd place. jerks.