At our new church they have a Pinewood Derby race every
year. The men who lead Boys Brigade gave
me a block of wood and told me to choose a shape. I went with the #1 style. A man from our church cut out my wood and
then I was ready to begin. Once it was
cut out and I got it back, my Dad and I began sanding. After sanding was finished, we brought it
home to finish the work. The next day,
Dad and I spray painted my car shiny orange.
The day after that, we put the black tiger stripes and a big “T” on the
front. After painting we started working
on the wheels. We sanded and polished
the axles. On Wednesday, Dad and I put the
wheels on my car in his office. It was
now ready for testing. All the boys
raced from our church and I won every race except one. We now thought it was ready for Race
Day!
Race day was this past Saturday.
The races took place at Bethlehem Church in
Randolph, New Jersey.
We woke up at 7 in
the morning to get to the race on time.
Once we got there, we had to weigh it.
My car was too heavy so we had to drill it.
We weighed it again and it was still too
heavy so we drilled more.
We weighed it
again and finally it was right.
It was
now ready for the race track.
My car was
in four races and I won first place in all of them.
I was so excited!
The only problem was that at the end, I
didn’t even get into the finals.
Even
though I won all my races, my speed wasn’t fast enough.
Oh well, I had a great time with my Dad and
all my friends.
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Caleb and Dad ready for Race Day! |
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Caleb, Dad and his Cheerleaders! |
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Standing in line to register the cars |
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Weighing the car |
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Oops, too heavy - drilling the car |
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Watching the races |
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Caleb and Jayden |
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Caleb and the other boys from his group at LFC |
That was a neat story about Tiger and your day with dad. I remember your dad making racers with your Grampa Gary, too. I'm glad you and dad had a great day together--that was the important thing. --and there's always next year!!
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