A most excellent article on the entire process (either real or imagined) on the Boy Scouts Pinewood Derby fun on the Speed Sport Life website. A quick excerpt:
THE PEOPLE
Racers are comprised of Cub Scouts. These are good ole fashioned honest young kids working hard for an achievement patch. If you want to compete you’ll need to be a kid between the ages of 5 and 12 years old. So, either invent a time machine and go back to race, or do what I did, have lots of sex and get yourself a son. Then you’ll have to sit around impatiently until the kid is old enough to become a Cub Scout. Once he finally hits that magical age, get yourself a drill press, a Dremel, some sand paper and get to work. I mean, get to work, uh, letting your son build the car.
A fun and excellent read. Johnny well remembers his first car (Of course HEAVILY dad influenced) and the trauma of watching a wheel come off 3/4 of the way down the track.
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