I’ve got the 2008 Pinewood Derby results

And I finished…….3RD!!! 3rd out of 26 racers!!!!

IT WAS AWESOME! Last year, I was 13th out of 17 cars, so this year we did much better.

I’m pretty darn happy with the work that my Dad and I did on this years car. On Wednesday of this last week, our car was REALLY slow. The wheels and axles seemed to be the problem. So my Dad got out the wheels from another kit, cleaned them up lightly, polished the axles, and graphited the heck out of them, spun them and hoped for the best.

Friday night at the shakedown, we finished first probably 15 times out of the 20 test runs we did!! We were RED HOT!!!

Against my wishes, my Dad put some glue on the axles (I didn’t want to mess with it at all!) to hold them in place, but it was fine. Saturday we put some more graphite on the wheels, and hoped for the best.

I won the first seven races I was in!!! Then I started to slow down, I guess all of my graphite was wearing off. I next placed second, and then at the final round I was third and thus third overall.

Here’s some pictures.

The SILVER AVENGER!

SILVER AVENGER ACTION SHOT!

THE PROUD WINNER!!

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