Derby Talk

Well folks after a bit of time away, I'm back! Hope to be posting some photos of efforts while I was gone and some new projects.

CIOdude

Mostly store them. The kids enjoy displaying them short term and I might build something for the wall for 10 or so, but I can’t bring myself to take them apart or recycle them. I want to preserve them so they can show them to their kids, hopefully when they enter the Pinewood Derby or the AWANA Gran...

Nice idea Rukkian. I like that for transportation maybe. But I'm looking to keep/store the entire collection (42+ racers now and growing at a rate of 5+ cars per year).

Great looking case Darin! I could make something like that to show off the latest round or so of racers, but I don't have enough wall space to show 40 or 50 cars.

Well this is the actual kit I was looking at: http://shop.betacrafts.com/Pick-up-Truc ... 002-16.htm

Underneath a table in my home office are nine Girl Scout cookie boxes. In those nine boxes sits about 42 derby cars. That represents my original PWD racer my dad helped me make as a boy from the 70s, and then a bunch of cars from 2007 up until today. All five of my children (1 boy/4 girls) have been...

Yes that would be helpful!

Not a bad idea whoda. I might try some additional trials with that idea. Thanks!

Has anyone run a good BlastCar race? I talked the leaders in my sons troop into doing a Patrol Challenge with each group of boys making their own BlastCar. The idea was we’d run it with the 8 patrols in our troop and then see if we could extrapolate it into a fundraiser. It was a blast (no pun inten...

Has anyone ever used a Pickup Truck kit from Beta Craft?

Thanks Darin!

That was really cool! Thanks for sharing.

This year I had my three youngest girls racing against each other in T&T. My oldest girl raced in the noncompetitive race as a leader (She is a Cubbies Helper). The three girls won all the design awards, sweeping first second and third place. I was in Canada on the day of the race and my son tri...

What's the cost of the material?

Hmmmmmmm...