Derby Talk

We are going to start working on this season's PWD car this week end! We have been planning it for a month now so it will be nice to get it started. There will be LOTS of sanding and painting to do, so we start early. It has been five months since the last Derby-- so we are ready!

This is how I handle our PWD addiction: Jan through March: Pack PWD (Jan) and then District PWD (March) March through June: Baseball July & August: Raingutter Regatta! August through November: Soccer September: Start working on the PWD car again!!!! As for our pack, and the PWD workshop.... I ha...

Hey, at least your hobby/obsession is acceptable. I am a "mom"-- thus, a woman, so I get really strange looks when I start talking Pinewood Derby cars at our pack meetings. The dads are all afraid of me and the moms think that I am weird (and, they are right on both counts-- I am weird, an...

The car kit that I bought said "Official BSA Deluxe Car Kit", and the wood block had to be cut out and everything done to it. It was an official car in a box, with the other stuff packaged around it. We did not even use the paints, as we bought automotive paints. And, the "bar weights...

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "kit car"? I bought a packaged kit on eBay, but it came with the official BSA wood block in the box with the wheels and axles, just like you get at the scout store. But, the "kit" also came with paints, decals, wheel alignment tool and weights. ...

I don't know where the "Official Rules" are posted-- sorry I can not help. But, I thought that each pack made up their own rules about the Derby and the Regatta? Is that not the case? Our pack makes up it's own set of rules for these events. For our Regatta there is no rule against attachi...

I don't know what steps can be taken, though-- not really. There are Scouts out there who can build cars that are just as good as the eBay cars, and they can make them look good, too. My family owns and airbrush machine. With "Derby Docs" stencils it is easy to make the decorative flames. ...

Those are awesome! I love them!!! I made a bunch of trophies for a charity pageant a group of mine held about four years ago. I still have about a half dozen two foot long trophy columns, and a bunch of marble bases. The columns are slender tubes, though. I wonder if they would work for something li...

Yes.... sorry! I think that the thread was discussing a father/son team who worked hard to build an awesome car and then were accused of cheating. This ties in with the thread about the eBay cars. Just goes to show how if you do a really good job of building your car some people will automatically t...

GP: No, I didn't think that you were picking on me. I chose to spend the money on the HOK paints because I wanted my son's car to look good. His favorite part of the car is the painting, so I wanted him to have the best tools. Fortunately we had the money to buy the top paints. But, if we hadn't had...

Pack 26's are the coolest! LOL! I bet there is just a tad bit of difference, though, between Connecticut and Texas!

Congratulations on your son's big win! Sounds like ya'll had an awesome day!

I agree that just because a car looks good it is not necessarily an eBay car. I think that my son's car this year looked great. He worked really hard on the paint job. I bought an airbrush machine-- pretty much just for the PWD (though, I may try to airbrush his baseball helmet). My son's car had pr...

BTW.... where is PAck 549 located at? I was just wondering if we are neighbors? What council/district are ya'll in?

BathTub: We are in PAck 26 out of Commerce, and in the NeTSeO trails council. We have a great pack, and it is very active. We do a lot of stuff. Unfortunately, PWD isn't one of those activities that the folks in the pack get in to. Last year, we had four of our boys go to the District race. This yea...