Introducing: Team Fire Ant!

10/24 - The car is complete!  Last year's car was the Black Widow, this year's car is the Fire Ant!  You may have to be a Texan to appreciate why fire ants are scarier than black widows (For one thing, they are aggressive - they will come after you!),  but the scout has hit the nail on the head with the naming.  Keep reading or skip ahead to see pictures & video; more video will be posted here after the race.  Let's recap the project:  The scout is ten this year, so this is his last race.  After last year's disappointing 4th place, he decided not to test fickle fate; rather than try for fastest again, this year we'd make the undisputed coolest car.  So, we made the obvious decision.  We built a fully-functioning Transformer-like object that in no way infringes on Hasbro's Trademark.  Ours is cooler than a regular-old Transformer, anyway.  Ours has fully-functioning headlights & an LED jetpack.  Really, it was the only option we had.  After all, we wanted to make the coolest car & what's cooler than a transforming pinewood derby car?  Yep, nothing.  If you haven't read the official log of the project, read it now.  Go ahead, we'll wait for you.

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Race Day!

10/25 - At long last, what you have been waiting for.  This year there were 6 cars in the race; the Fire Ant was number 6.  Our goal was to make the coolest car, but I must say - the competition was stiff!  Each of the cars were amazing, each of them were cooler than the cars we made when I was a young scout.  

To come in under weight, we had to remove all the removable parts - fortunately this got us down to 4.9oz.  Below are pictures of the cars, the 'Team Fire Ant' truck is something I whipped-up last night to give him something cool in which to store the car.  Our scout didn't win first place, but he did win an award for 'Most Creative' and he received kudos from his peers.  A good night :)

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