Pinewood derby car, I cut this for a co-worker

[DavidCousins]

Here's a link to some pictures of wood I cut last night. A young fellow at work is doing the father and son soapbox derby thing with the scouts. Both he and his son are building one. I suggested that he design his derby on the CAD machine and I'd cut it out for him. He did, and I did. He likes the Starwars Intergalactic cruisers, and this what he came up with. Here are pictures of the cutting.
http://flickr.com/photos/davidcousins/s ... 393397892/

[TReischl]

Neat work, David, looks like it was fun too!

[dasch]

Very COOL!
Be sure to post pictures of the completed car (and associated trophies!).
Nice approach to the traditional soapbox car (Up here we call them Cub Cars - for the Cub Scouts)

[DavidCousins]

I gave the lumber to it's new owner with a request for a photo of the finished product. I didn't think of the trophy photo. I'm going to need that too.

[DavidCousins]

dasch
Your are correct, I was calling it by the wrong name. It's called the Pinewood derby and Cub Car derby. I did a flickr.com search and discovered that soapbox refers to the go-cart sized hill racers. It's been a long time since I was a kid and then I had two girls, so I didn't get to build for them either.
Dave

[dasch]

No matter the name, Dave.
Great job, and cool approach!

[CRFultz]

Nice work Dave, looks like there's plenty of room to put bottle rockets in the tailpipes