if you know me well you know that i’m an eagle scout. i grew up with scouting which was a tremendous way to spend time with my family and learn some pretty cool stuff. pine wood derbies and rain gutter regattas were always a highlight to the scouting year and i was asked to go and shoot one tonight. actually i needed a last minute photo page subject and snagged this assignment up. in any case, it brought back some old memories from my childhood and was just an all around good time to shoot.
there was another similar event to this that we did one year. i don’t remember what it was called, but you basically built a car out of a cardboard box, put it on and had a foot race. well my dad took this to the extreme and built an all out indy car (out of cardboard) complete with sponsor stickers, racing stripes and a red paint job. showing up to see my pathetic competition holding up old soggy boxes with a number painted on the side i wasn’t sure i was going to win, but i did know that i was the coolest kid there.
back to the pine wood derby though. some things never change and one of those things is dads getting really involved in ‘helping’ with their son’s cars. one was a replica of the general lee car from dukes of hazzard. quite a feat for an eight year old.
while shooting i couldn’t seem to get away from the checkered flags they had there. hell, what say’s racing like a checkered flag?
