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Pine Wood Derby Today


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It's for kids, and our pack is kinda small, but today was a very cool day.

 

 

Our first pinewood derby. :thumbsup: (Jake is a 6 yr old Tiger Cub)

 

 

 

 

Can you tell which car is his?

 

Hint, it kinda looks like this:

 

:D

 

 

 

Since he's the ONLY Tiger Cub in the pack,

win, lose, or draw today,

his car was going to go to the regionals (since Tigers, Wolves & Bear Cubs each send their fastest car).

 

But he didn't have to sneak in on a technicality.

 

Even though he's the youngest kid in the pack,

his car won every race it was in, and set the MPH & ET records for the day. jamminz.gif

 

I don't know if the video's will post, but here are a few of the races:

 

Final race of the three fastest cars:

 

 

 

 

Proud papa here. :clapping:

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here's my pine wood derby story.. or the one i remember most. my brother and i always made damn near the same car but this year we went our own ways. his was sleek and mine was like a box lol. i figured hell i might win but didnt hold my breath. so i went on and thought well i may not win but i can still get another award. i went for the "most colorful award" and made it all hippie tye dye rainbow type deal. cool. well we went and we both did pretty good actually. we were pleased. so they were handing out awards and up came the colorful one. i knew i had it.......wrong. it went to a kid with a solid white with red stripe going down it! turns out it was a son of a "higher up" dad that didnt win. nice. all the work i ACTUALLY put into mine and they just give it to a kid to make him feel better!!??!!! bulls**t. my dad was going to go say something since he was pretty fired up but i said no, let it go. if that kid really needs to win that bad let him have it. it was just pathetic the whole scene there. we never went back to the Scouts after that

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I started in Scouts in elementary school.

I am proud to say that I obtained my Eagle in 1999.

 

I still remember how there was a big scandal in Cub Scouts because several of the boys used a sander/grinder on the car wheels to make them thinner, so that there was less friction and the cars would go faster.

 

I never won a pinewood derby, because I always spent more time making my car look cool than worry about if the car was faster than everyone else's. When I heard about the boys altering their wheels, I thought it was pretty stupid, because it made the cars look dumb.

 

:rotf:

 

I can say, try to get your son to stick with it and get his Eagle.

And if he gets his Eagle, make sure he lists it on his resume, because it really helps with getting jobs, and you never know if the interviewer is a former Scout or a current leader.

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I still remember how there was a big scandal in Cub Scouts because several of the boys used a sander/grinder on the car wheels to make them thinner, so that there was less friction and the cars would go faster.

 

 

You chuck them in a lathe and turn them down. The process is now banned in most councils.

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