As a boy scout, I participated in the "Carve-Wood Mini-car Downhill Race"......... I won an award for making a car on wheels with no breaking system, that actually refused to go downhill on a slope
This is a classic memory, lemme go off, this is just too good. Although it was the Cub Scouts for me, Im guessing 6 –8 year olds.
This race was held in the local small town Methodist Church, and we were all given what was as best I can remember a block of wood, and plastic wheels joined by a piece of flimsy rod. The idea was to sculpt the block into a car shape, paint and finish it as best you could, and compete in a wooden track downhill race. To this day, I remember that local old men ready for death by my best assumption at the time (pry actually 40-50 years old) built this terrific wooden race track that was just a large sloped track with lanes. Start them at the top, let gravity take the fastest car to the finish line.
Being a huge procrastinator which I have never out grown, I ran out of time and focus, so basically installed the wheels on the block of wood and gave it a bad paint job. Like Kweassa, it left black slid marks down the planks, and they had to remove it so the other kids could race next, lol.
Thing is, and at 8 or whatever, I STILL remember the biggest dork of all time in our class and troop that couldn’t tie his shoes, who’s Dad just happened to be a accomplished craftsmen with a great garage fulla tools, showed up with a car that looked like a mini-production model of a some futuristic bullet car, with a paint scheme that would make Earl Scheib blush.
It didn’t win, got second, but thanks for the flashback. I couldn’t possibly remember the details or if I did wouldn’t understand, but Im sure there was some old man with his kid and a bottle of primitive WD40 just RIVETED to the outcome.
We pry beat him up afterwards anyway.
