Derby Talk

Here are some pictures of a car carrier I designed and built this year. I wanted the carrier to be able to be disassembled, for storage , with the track. I was able to build 2 carriers out of 1 - 2' X 2' piece of 1/2" AC plywood. I cut the side extensions from some scrap 1/4" plywood I fou...

All of the drawings are made by me. This way I can adjust the cars to fit with the wheel openings. If you have pictures of the front, back and the one side I could possibly make a drawing of a car for you.

The grilles and license plates are drawn decals. The only thing that was painted was the taillights on the Lincoln as the decal ones I had drawn did not fit right, and I did not want to have to remake only one decal. The grille on the Lincoln is mostly chrome so I placed a piece of aluminum foil tap...

For the parent-sibling race I made our other 2 old cars, Noah had the 3rd old car for his car The 2008 car - a 1966 Marlin . My car was the Lincoln, I have had this car a long time (I purchased the original car in 1983) and it was restored in 1990 for our wedding. http://home.comcast.net/~adholzer/P...

and they usually end up hollowing out the car to make the weight limit. We did have to hollow out the bottom to get it to race weight. After building 4 other fender style cars in the past we know about how much we need to remove from the bottom with the amount of wood placed on the top and sides. W...

All of the "chrome" parts are made with aluminum foil tape I picked it up at our local home care center, in the heating department (i think next to the duct tape, as I remember) It has a paper backing so we can cut the shape and peel and stick it to the painted part we want chromed. On som...

This year Noah (for his Bear car) wanted his car to look like the new car we picked up last summer, a 1966 AMC Marlin. We always try to make cars that resemble normal cars (Tiger - SuperBird, Wolf - Crusin Mc Queen http://derbytalk.com/viewtopic.php?p=28500#28500). After that was decided we had to d...

are your tailights, headlights, eyes, and decals are your own decals? All of the decals on these cars were redrawn, one of the troublesome details is that the eyes are 2 separate decals (as inkjet printers cannot print white) there is a white decal that has the eyeball and the white part of the eye...

For the 2007 race we made Cars pinewood derby cars for the whole family, here is the story: Last year (2006) when we left the move Cars, my son, Noah, told me he would like to make the Lightning McQueen car next year for the Cub Scout, Pinewood Derby. I was thinking the whole time that lightning McQ...