Driver with his vehicle...
All lined up on the starting grid...
Wait it's over already?
Over the years one thing that I've noticed about pine wood derby's is, there are two types of dads... those who are their for their boys and those who are there in front of their boys. What I mean is, there are dads who take the race way too seriously and get a little too miffed when their boy plays with the car like he will do, so they hold the car, they take care of the car... it's like it's THEIR midlife crisis car not their SON'S pinewood derby car... you know who you are. I appreciate that James is NOT one of those dads... if Kyle or Ty before him, played with his car at or before the pinewood derby James would let them but remind them to be careful, he'd also let them handle it and place it on the track, you know like it was their race and not his... sorry just a pet peeve of mine.
Anyway we had a great time, although I think it'd be a lot more fun if the ward had it's own track and we could run some dad races, little brother races... heck maybe even a mom mini-van class...
And as far as the effort on building the car... well I'll say this, it's 4 different pieces of wood each individually cut, sanded and then glued together... followed by body putty (you know like the stuff they use at an auto body shop) then, sanding... sanding... sanding... until both father and son are tired of sanding. Then primer and more sanding... then finally the color goes one, I don't know how many coats with "wet" sanding in between. And because Kyle wanted a candy apple finish there was the candy coat that had to go on at "exactly" (according to James) four hours after the last coat of silver. When it was done it looked like a shiny red car... Why'd you put so much time into the silver if you were going to paint it red James? -crickets- and a dirty look from him is all I'm getting in response to that question...
