Derby Talk

The wheels came with the kit, which was made by Indy Products. Track was aluminum, every car had one run in each lane. This car was the only one that I noticed take a big skip at the transition, and at first I thought maybe there was something on the track that caused the car to skip and come down h...

This year was the over the top year for hand carving. My daughter had a matchbox car based on a Ford GT variant she wanted to make. Started with two blocks, cut one up into fender strips, and glued them in place with dowels. Used the Dremmel with a large wood rasp bit to route out the wheel clearanc...

Here's what the wheel looked like when we got the car back after the race. Before the race it was 100% flat and true on edge, although I did not actually check spin balance with any special tools like some do.

I am tossing this out to you experts - I worked pretty hard building a Ford GT car, starting from the plans in one of the threads here. It was slightly weighted to the rear, with maximum wheelbase, and carved from a solid block (unlike original the balsa skateboard design). It was tuned to run strai...