Pinewood Derby for Big Boys!

The Elders Quorum in our ward wanted to relive their childhood and have some friendly competition, so they held a pinewood derby. Either a regulation car or a no-rules car was allowed. Lonny opted for no-rules and remembered a car he built in a science class in middle school where there was a string wound up around the rear axle and attached to a mouse trap that would snap, causing the string to turn the axle in a quick-like manner and consequently go faster and farther. So turns out- it doesn't work very well on derby cars.


Lonny had to put extra weight on the back of the car to get it to sort of do something, hence the large pieces of metal haphazardly hot-glued to the bottom and top of the car. I thought I would explain in case you thought he had a really hard time figuring out what a spoiler was supposed to look like.

Don't worry- your eyes do not deceive you- that sure is a skull-and-crossbones that my adult husband is drawing on his car. Here's the finished product.

Even though this car doesn't have the appearance of German engineering, it ended up winning quite a prize. One of the most coveted, sought after titles went to my guy Lonny and his sweet mousetrap car.... "Worst of the Worst". At least that's what I would title it if I could. It's true, out of the 4 modified "no-rules" cars, Lonny's car was the only one to never win a race (in fact, I'm not sure it ever made it to the end of the racetrack). But his proud ladies were there to cheer for him to the bitter end. We love him and are so proud of .... um.. well he... his good sportsmanship!