Pinewood Derby

Just last Wednesday was the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. Oliver and Brenden and I had been working on cars for nearly a month so it was eagerly anticipated.

Both Oliver and Brenden decided they wanted their cars to look like old stock cars. After some searching on the interweb, they found some pitcures they liked and we drew the plans on the wood blocks. Here are the boys soon after cutting out the cars from the blocks -


Next it was time to sand. Turns out little boys aren't all that interested in doing a whole lot of manual labor. Nonetheless, lots of prompting and persuading, and some great help from Grandpa Wiley got the cars to the point of being ready for paint. Here is Brenden's car after painting -


Please notice a) the wheel wells-the boys really wanted the cars to have wheel wells, so we bought an extra kit and cut it in fourths and glued those to the sides of their cars, so we could have the extra width needed b) Grandpa Wiley had the great idea of using shiny black paint to make windows.

Next up - stickers. Each boy had definite ideas for colors and look - this is what they came up with:


Oliver's has the white stripes, while Brenden's has red.

Final step - wheels -


what's that?? no, of course you can't just leave the wheels black. cmon man.







and finally -


- scott