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You are in luck! This is a pinewood derby design idea guide. Whether you are building a pinewood derby car for a Cub Scouts race, Awana Grand Prix, Royal Rangers, WIRL or any other pine wood derby organization, you need to start your car design with an idea. Car design is one of the more fun parts of pinewood derby. You can design a creative, funny type of car or a super slick racer. I suggest letting your (or your child’s) imagination work before narrowing down to something you can actually build. The steps below will guide you to through the Pinewood derby design phase. Before
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Derby Car Design Idea Themes My son usually gave me simple design ideas like, “I want a bubble on top”. Another year he wanted grooves on the sides to “channel the airflow”. Still another year he wanted a "tapered look so it was aerodynamic". Once again, it is important to try to incorporate the child's ideas into the car design so they feel good about it. And yes, one car had a bubble, another had air channels behind the wheels and the third was aerodynamic. Oh, don’t worry too much about making a car design that is not aerodynamic. Pinewood Derby cars are not going fast enough, nor long enough for aerodynamics to affect speed in any way. It is far more important to get the wheels, axles, weight placement and other speed improvements correct (See Winning Pinewood Derby Secrets). Your
child may want a design theme like a military theme, animal theme,
cartoon theme, race car theme, or “something totally cool
and different.” The table below lists about 100 pinewood derby
car design ideas that will help you select a design theme for your
pine wood derby car. Something should jump out at you from this
design list. If not, then email
me your car design and I'll add it to this list. Better yet,
email me a picture of
your car and I'll add it to our picture
gallery.
At this point you need to scale the design back to something you feel can be done in the time you have available. One alternative to save time is to purchase a pre-cut pine car that has lots of wood on it. Most of the cutting has already been done, like the stock car from pinewood pro, but you can still modify it to your custom design. Finalizing
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