My son and I had zero background about the Pinewood Derby Car when we got his car kit from our Pack. Over the past 2 months, we did lots of homework via Google YouTube and also bought several tools & accessories for the project. Eventually, we built our first Derby car and surprisingly brought a trophy back home.





Now I like to share our lessons/tips learned from this project. I am

not trying to focus on some technical depth about how to make your car faster or more realistic but more to summarize the whole project with a series of steps. It probably does not help or spark those Derby gurus but hopefully gives some hands to the first-time maker and beginners.





One question before I start - does your son have his own toolbox? If not, it is probably a good time to get one

for him. I bought a CAT Portable Toolbox for my son. It turned out to be a good decision;

especially on the contest day he had everything in one

box for adjusting and tuning.