Pinewood Derby Fun

Yesterday was Jakob's first ever Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. We really had fun putting together his car. We decided to create the car on the computer first using SketchUp.
The official sized pinewood block we started with:

We first considered the classic door stop design. Nah, too plain...

Jakob loves castles so we started looking at castle designs. Jakob definetly wanted a tower.

Getting rid of aerodynamic advantage altogether...

Homing in on a final design, this one at least had a somewhat curved front...

The final golden concept...

The final product on race day

Here's a quick clip we took off of SportsCenter, highlighting the day's races:

Jakob won the award for "Most Royal". While it's not really about who wins and loses the whole thing, Jakob did win his first heat and fared quite well on the other races; especially when you consider our complete disregard to aerodynamic conventions!

The following image was created using the most advanced time lapse imagery to project Jakob's future first car. Shown as it will appear parked in our front drive in 2016 when Jakob is driver's license eligible!