Features:

  • Racer series bodies are cad-drawn and pre-shaped body gives you a head-start on your project and saves hours of work.
  • Includes official, race-legal wheels and axles - to carry you to victory.
  • Smooth the pre-shaped body before you paint with included 120-grit and 220-grit sandpaper sheets (one each).
  • Customize your look after you paint with the provided peel-and-stick decal sheet.
  • Get maximum speed - and keep your car at a race-legal weight - with included stick-on weights.
Nice kit and stylish non wedge that kept up with the tricked out wedges.

I bought for son's second year race. The design is pretty good and rear bottom area has enough space to hide and place weight to avoid messing with topside looks. That said, the weight included is nowhere near enough. Revell actually never gives enough weight. I skipped kit with paints because the brushes usually stink anyway. Used black gloss spray paint. He was able to sand most areas and put on stickers himself. I glued quarters and nickels on top of the weights to hit 5 oz. however, up until final 4 he smoked everyone he raced. I didn't even do the tweaking many dads do. Buy some graphite tube. He earned his trophy.

Assembled and painted, it only weighs about 3. ...

Assembled and painted, it only weighs about 3.3 ounces. I bought it for my daughter's school event. It came in 2nd overall and may have won had the car running next to had not interfered. I added enough weight to get it to 5.8 ounces. You might want to look at steel fishing sinkers and a forstner drill bit set.

My sons first derby car.

Being that he's a tiger, it's a bit much to expect him to carve out his own car. So this was good for his entry level skillset. He won 5th overall out of 25.

Good kit, quality components

Good car, surprisingly good quality components. The wheels and nails were the best of all the sets I bought for this season (the two normal wood block BSA sets for scouts were horrible) I ended up using them on my sons competition car. He ended up taking 1st place in our pack. As for the kit I made a pretty good truck for my youngest all I did was a little sanding and spray paint. I knew he'd want one when he saw his older brother racing. Being two years old and loving trucks I gave him one he could play with and distract him while the older boys were racing.

Recommend

Perfect for what it is...i pimped it out by gluing some fired brass on there and let my kids play with it. Painted with forest green i had lying around the house. No idea if the kit is "to spec" for the formerly respectable boy scouts of america, but it's freakin fun for what it is

buy graphite for the wheels

The car wheels should have graphite applied to make it faster, it didn't include that in the instructions and our car was the slowest car in the race. The car structure and design was really awesome.

Neat little kit. Has almost everything you need for this project but the paint.

This is a neat little kit and easy to put together. It includes both types of sandpaper you will need and the weights. You will need to buy the paint and clear coat if you want it.

This car is very fast!

I bought this kit to race in a fund raiser in our church. I guess that I'm a big kid at heart. It came in second to a car that was the very same kit as this one. Overall it was fun to race it. I did have to add quite a bit of weight to it to get it to 4.9 ounces. I will tune it up and be ready next time.

Winning Kit (hopefully)

Great Kit! I missed the window to enter into this year's local brewery contest, so holding out for a next year win! Kit was a great quality and assembled quickly. Do your self a favor and read the directions at least once :) (I realize this goes against the guy code of just figuring out,....but...)

The best looking pinewood derby car.

A great kit. My son ended up second place overall. He was so happy. The car was very fast for being a block like car. Highly recommend this kit.

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