A scout racing career in pics

[davet]

Many of you have gone out of your way to help us over the years. I thought you might like to see what you helped us accomplish. Here is a progression of our cars as we learned from you guys.

This tank was our first car and took us to Districts. "Best of Show" winner.

Built a missile shaped car our second year that slammed side to side down the track and didn't even make top 3 in our den. "Best of Show" winner.

--We found this site and the next year took 1st at Districts with track record and 7th at NorthernStar Council on all stock kit parts and oil. "Most Patriotic" award winner.

--The next year, track record at Districts and 4th at Council with an aircraft carrier car. "Best Car that's Not a Car" award winner.

--This, our final year, track record at Districts and 1st at Council. "Best Detail" award winner.

 

[Vitamin K]

Awesome progression!

 

[microbrush]

Thanks for sharing. I think my favorite it the tank! Well, seeing your LED car in action this year was pretty exciting. It was funny that on the open track; which was the track next door to yours and going on at the same time, that there was also an LED car. Over all all of your cars are very exceptional looking!

 

[GravityX]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[gdurban]

Love the tank!!!!

 

[Kinser Racing]

Very nice Dave!

 

[jatofau1]

Cool cars!!! Very creative. Thanks for sharing.

 

[gWebber]

Killer cars /images/boards/smilies/smile.gif

 

[TWarwick07]

That tank puts mine to shame. Although I did build it in one night.

Just wondering how many hours you have in on each of the cars?

 

[davet]

Thanks guys.

The other LED car at the race was the coolest car I had seen. I never would've tried LED's facing straight up and blinking in a rapid, random fashion.

The hours we have into the cars is tough to figure out because there are hours building the car, fixing what we broke, starting over, staring at it alone at the kitchen table when everyone is asleep, picking colors at the store, spray paint practice on cardboard for my boy, looking at hundreds of Google Images until my boy finds just the right covering, etc. I can say that we take the entire 2 months to build each car and have been gluing axles in just prior to leaving for a race.

It's hard for me to pick a favorite because there were so many different experiences during each build.

When the tank took Best of Show my boy, Tiger at the time, was asked to say some things about the car over the speakers with the Pack Leader. He said he chose that design because he wanted to be a soldier when he gets older. Everyone clapped and cheered for his answer. It gave me shivers that I remember today.

The missile was fun because my wife insisted on my boy wearing full goggles, giant earmuffs and winter gloves while I helped him turn it on our bench grinder. I should've taken a pic of him. He was the epitome of workplace safety.

The American flag car was very fast with stock parts so I, personally, am most proud of the work we did on that one.

I told a dad in the Pack that my boy wanted to build an aircraft carrier car with planes on top but he still wanted to have the fastest car. The dad said he was glad because he thought we couldn't do it and he would have a better chance against us that year.

My boy chose the lightning bolt car this year. It was his backup design choice last year if he didn't like how the aircraft carrier turned out. I'm most proud of his work on this one. He routered the pockets and hollowed it out himself. We had to epoxy a few repair pieces in after the router got away from him. My fault for not setting him up with a good fence. He called me at work one day and said he wrecked the car while working on it and we needed to start over. I got home and dreaded starting over so I told it looked fine but he was insistent that we start over. He wasn't happy with it. He was also very encouraging to his den mates during all races which was good to watch.