6 years in the making.
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:39 pm
I'm a long time lurker. My oldest son participated in 5 Pinewood Derbies during his 5 years as a Scout. I then became heavily involved with Scouts as a Den Leader for my younger son when he joined. During that time I became the Pinewood Derby chair and ran many (luckily) successful races for our Pack.
My sons are now in Boy Scouts now. Since I have 10 cars for my sons and probably a half a dozen more between the parents races and sibling races I finally decided to build a display. I spotted a nice display on this board and sort of modeled my display after it. At least I have 5 less cars to trip over.
It is a simple display, but over 6 years in the making. One year for each car we made. Then I thought, how hard could it be to build a display? After the final race I bought the wood to make a display. It took me over 6 months to start. It's been an on again/off again project done in my "free" time between coaching softball for my daughter, Boy Scout camping, and boating. I think it turned out well. I need to build one more to hold 10 more cars but that's another project for another time.
The cars are in order built, top to bottom. The skateboard and drag car were designed and built solely by my (younger) Webelos.
The first car is the "Money Carlo" which has coins embedded of the year of his birth and of the race year. The second was for speed, but wan't that fast. The third was when Cars (the movie) was popular, and is a 1970 Plymouth Superbird. The fourth, the skateboard was my son's idea and execution. He won a district trophy for design. The final car is modeled after a top fuel drag car, because I had taken my son to an NHRA even and he was impressed!
Kudos to this board and the parents who are involved.
Best of luck to you. The kids grow up fast so enjoy the time you have with them.
It's hard to tell, but it has a glass front door, the pull handle being an extra tire from a Derby car.
My sons are now in Boy Scouts now. Since I have 10 cars for my sons and probably a half a dozen more between the parents races and sibling races I finally decided to build a display. I spotted a nice display on this board and sort of modeled my display after it. At least I have 5 less cars to trip over.
It is a simple display, but over 6 years in the making. One year for each car we made. Then I thought, how hard could it be to build a display? After the final race I bought the wood to make a display. It took me over 6 months to start. It's been an on again/off again project done in my "free" time between coaching softball for my daughter, Boy Scout camping, and boating. I think it turned out well. I need to build one more to hold 10 more cars but that's another project for another time.
The cars are in order built, top to bottom. The skateboard and drag car were designed and built solely by my (younger) Webelos.
The first car is the "Money Carlo" which has coins embedded of the year of his birth and of the race year. The second was for speed, but wan't that fast. The third was when Cars (the movie) was popular, and is a 1970 Plymouth Superbird. The fourth, the skateboard was my son's idea and execution. He won a district trophy for design. The final car is modeled after a top fuel drag car, because I had taken my son to an NHRA even and he was impressed!
Kudos to this board and the parents who are involved.
Best of luck to you. The kids grow up fast so enjoy the time you have with them.
It's hard to tell, but it has a glass front door, the pull handle being an extra tire from a Derby car.