Story of One Boy's Car

Saturday was Jaron's first pine wood derby, what a ride. Let me tell you a little bit about the making of this car. Jaron received the pine wood derby kit for Christmas from his den leader. It sat for a time waiting to get made. Around Valentine's Day Kyle took it up to Portland and had his brother help cut it into a shape. It came back looking like this:

I thought it was very nice looking and very smooth. Kyle wanted to get it even more smoother. (Make it go faster?) Kyle got it wet and then stuck it in the microwave to get the fibers to stand up. So when he sands it- it will be really smooth. He took it out of the microwave and the car was smokin, and kept smokin. We then dunked it water for a while to make sure it wouldn't smoke any more. I thought they should of painted it red with red flames, because it was on FIRE. :0)

Jaron didn't go for that, he wanted it to look like Bumblebee from Transformers. He painted it yellow with two black stripes. He put the number 28 on the car. The 2 because 21 is Kyle's number and he did the car with Jaron. The 8 is Jaron chose for his age right now.

Kyle and Jaron took the car to the race and had it weighed, it was under so they hot glued weights on the back. In the picture below the yellow car is Jaron's during a race.

"Bumble Bee 28"

I was very surprised by how high tech this track was. There was a levy thing that made it so they all left at the same time (out of the starting gate). Then at the end it told you what car made it in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th place. Each time the cars went the whole gym was quite. It was a very serious thing. I think all the boys did a great job on their cars. They all looked so different-especially from the block they started out as.

Here are all the racers with their cars.

And here are the winners of the derby.

There are 3 winner per troop, (2 troops raced together today)

Jaron won 3rd place.

Here he is with his car. Way to go Jaron!

Here is one of the races of Jaron's car, his car came in first.

I love how he reacts at the end of the video.