M is THE man!!!! He DOMINATED the five ward combined Young Men's No Rules Pinewood Derby. (Okay there were 2 rules: you couldn’t touch your car once it was on the track and the standard church wide restrictions on flames/explosives inside any church building.)
Finessing the last minute details
The competition
but M’s vehicle just rocketed down that track leaving the others to eat its dust!!! He was testing it in the hall at home before he even had wheels on it and nearly knocked a hole in the wall. In the video, the car in the center lane had metal rods sticking out of the front that were meant to snag the other racers and have them push it across the finish line first, but Marc's car just blasted over it and jumped into the middle lane in front of it!
You’ll have to call and chat with him about the design details, but basically he attached a soda bottle to the wheels, devised a valve that he could fill the bottle with air pressure using a bicycle pump, and a trigger mechanism to release the pressure when the starting gate dropped. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!
M got a huge celebratory cone of Red Hot Cinnamon ice cream, and he deserved it!
2 comments:
That there is what you call a decisive victory!!
Hahahahaha! That is so awesome. Y'all are the best!
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