The Last Pinewood Derby!

And I for one am not sorry to see the last of them. We did go out with a bang though and Cole's car won first place. Danford is quite pleased with himself of course. He has been laboring for the past 6 years to figure out how to build a fast pinewood derby car. Some of them have been pretty fast and others have been disappointing. I really think it is just dumb luck, but he is convinced he has figured out a perfect system and it is all in the wheels and axels. He won't have a chance to test his theory however because this was the last one.

I did not bring my camera so sadly I did not get many pictures, but my friend Heather took some for me. Here is Luke helping with the track. This was a very nice electronic track that we borrowed from a Lake Oswego ward. No one was allowed near it except this guy who was operating it and Luke who brought him the cars and then put them back after each race.

We splurged and bought 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophys this year. Here is Cole getting his trophy.



Here is his car which went through a few casualties before it was finished. The wood split when they were cutting it out and they had to start over. It split again when they put the wheels on but it was too late to start over so it had to just be glued. They spray painted it dark green. Danford likes to put a lot of layers of paint on it. At one point it was still sticky and he decided that to get it to dry faster he would put it in the oven - on broil. You can imagine what a good idea that was. It almost ruined it. After they sanded down the bubling mess of paint, they decided that it looked like a camo pattern and they left it.

Here's to being done with Pinewood Derbys!