Jacob is finishing up his Pinewood derby car for this weekend's big event.  His Boy Scout pack will race their cars and compete for various awards based upon their performance and design. We got sort of a late start, typical of any project we seem to tackle and started the project Friday night

Jacob and I sat down looking for ideas of what he wanted his car to look like. Right away he was leaning toward the more unique designs: surfboard cars with plastic dogs riding on top, a skateboard car, even a banana car with clay monkeys holding on for dear life. Once he spotted a car shaped like a slice of Swiss cheese, he knew that was what he wanted to make.

Tom helped with the power tools, but Jacob has done almost all the rest right down to the excellent sanding and painting job.  My personal favorite part is the clay mouse which rides in one of the Swiss cheese holes.  Check out the cute tail, and as Jacob requested, the pink clay nose.

I'll upload a final photo Saturday evening, and we'll let you all know how race day goes.  We're keeping the wheels off of the car for now since they are covered in messy graphite to help with the speed.