GMC Pinewood Derby

Let get behind this fun project!

We need racers.
We are going to have Powder Puff Race also. Red Hat Tea is great, but I hear that the PP Race gets the competitiveness out on the track.
Initial projection on the cost of the Kit will be around $10.00.
Hopefully , we will have them available in June.
For those that have great plans for a supper slick unit, we will have an Unlimited Class.
Jim Kanomata   (Tue 5/5/2009)

The block of wood that comes in the somewhat shape of a GMC must  use as is supplied.  The Kits that have been supplied to the GMCGL members use these dimensions.  You can sand and reshape the edges but if you make it smaller than the original templet block then you can be put in the Modified racer category.  Some of the GMCGL racers when way overboard in their shaping and finishing of the racers.  The intent here is have fun racing your pinewood racer GMC.
J.R. Wright  (Thu 4/16/2009)

Walt Halley and Bob Swartz brought along a track to the Amana GMCMI Convention, and set it up to see what kind of interest there would be in having a pine box derby at the conventions.  There seemed to be little interest at that time, but perhaps this thread will get it going.  The track is very cumbersome to move around, so someone would have to come up with a track that is a little more portable.
Druber (Sat 4/11/2009)

The GMC Great Lakers have been having a pinewood derby for at least three years.  We all race our own pinewood GMC coaches.  Some are very basic in finish and some are really well done.  I was looking  for the pictures from the last meet but they escape me at this time.  
We have our own club track with timers and finish line judges and we sell the kits to our member to build there own racers.  Our meet this year will be at the Birthday rally in May. JR Wright (Sat 4/11/2009)

The Pine-Wood Derby was one of those "look forward to" events in cubs.  Our troop got serious about it holding the regional finals on our tracks and sponsored the event.  Our adults came up with an "unlimited" exibition class where I went nuts with a car looking like the Flintstones log with a 1/2 sec model rocket SRB connected to a battery powered igniter circuit complete with stager and LED status indicator.  You just had to be there the first time it ran-- filled up the hall with smoke, set off detectors and bout had the fire department called!  Did exibition runs for years after my sons moved on-- it was a draw of our Pack event.  Jim Bounds (Sat 4/11/2009)

GMC Great Lakers
WE ARE DOING IT IN OHIO ALREADY!  Bob Swartz took the lead and built a 4 lane GMC track.  He and some others have machined GMC pinewood derby kits that they sell for cost - you take it and customize it to look like your GMC or whatever.  I built a sophisticated computer timing tracker that measures the winners and their elapsed times down to 1/100th of a second using infrared detectors.  It has been used at a couple rallys east of the Mississippi so far.  From the pictures and stories, it was a hoot!  I think he has some pictures of some of the events on line.  Get with Bob for more details!  Maybe he would like to make you guys west of the Mississippi tracks and computer controlled timers too! Mike Kilroy (Sat 4/11/2009)

Individual clubs compete for International Trophies.

Fastest

Best Paint

Best Scale

Wildest