IamFroglash88
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"The Blood" on the left and "Super Vader" on the right
The Vader is a little quicker at this point in time. We have 2 wks before the race to fine tune things. We haven't applied any graphite to The Blood yet.Just by quick glance the TCU car has a slight front-end problem that may cause excess friction. Hate to say it but the vader may run a little quicker.
Nice cars. I love them, but I agree with NORML. They should have a competition for the adults and one for the kids, not one for the adults that they pretend is done by the kids. The kids of people who have no woodworking or building skills (my kids) are at a severe disadvantage. Or maybe they just need two classes: cars actually made by kids and cars made by adults for their kids. Same thing with science fair projects.
All that being said, your car looks amazing. Your kid is lucky to have a cool dad who has those skills to pass on to them.
However,like the ol' science project at elementary school, it's nearly impossible to keep the parent from overwhelming the kid. Had a bro-in-law on the local school board who voted not to do a science project at the lower grade level because, in his experience, it boiled down to which parent outdid the other.
Comedian Brian Regan has a nice bit about the science fair from when he was a kid and how the parents did all of the work for the kids whose projects won. There was the kid who did the model of the universe every year ("The big yellow one is the Sun!!"), Brian's "Cup of dirt," and then the one whose parents backed the project up to the school on a flatbed truck. Pretty funny stuff if you ever get a chance to hear it.