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Pinewood Derby competitor carved into a Storrowed U-Haul

Note the attention to detail - and the racing flames.

Austin Fossey is a Boston-area native who now lives in Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, NY. He has two sons in Cub Scout Pack 171, which has two annual Pinewood Derbies, one for parents to get out their competitive aggression, and one actually for the kids.

This year, Fossey went back to his roots and converted the starting block of wood, wheels and nails into something that any Bostonian would be proud to send hurtling down a derby track.

"I made the decals myself on MS Word because that's how I am spending my pandemic I guess," he says. He reports his kids made a monster truck and a speedy race car.

He adds that his work won't go unappreciated, because Pittsford has "a ton of MA transplants who just all seemed to drift here down I-90 to get married to people in upstate."

Also see:
The storrowed-truck Halloween costume.

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That isn't aerodynamic enough to win, but it's very clever.

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As Boy Scouts, we ran the Pinewood Derbies for most of the Dot and Mattapan packs.

This, while magnificent, would not pass muster on the track.

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And the simple wedge shaped cars usually win :)

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My cars were cool (a Plymouth Prowler at one point) but not the perfectly-weighted wedges that always won.

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It's probably too tall for the derby and would bang into the arrival gate.

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that it's well-built and will function perfectly according to design. :-)

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It has no business on a pinewood derby track, but it was just following its GPS.

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