Want to keep your Pinewood Derby Car on display?   There are quite a few display options to consider  in order for you to do so.    Whether you want to place it inthe bedroom, den, rec room or any other room,  a display case or mount would make a great display choice.    So, [...]

All kids want a fast Pinewood Derby car.  However, what gets their attention the most is how cool it looks.  Aside from airbrushing, the best looking paint job can be obtained with spray paint.    Most dads allow their son’s to brush paint their cars with acrylic paint.  That’s safe and easy.  However, brush painting [...]

The Pinewood Derby is an event that races small wooden cars against one another. It is a Cub Scouts tradition that still goes on to this day. The point of the Pinewood Derby is to have Cub Scouts, with the help of their parents and other family members, build their own seven inch pine cars to be raced [...]

One of the joys of a young person’s life is often things that they did themselves. Things like learning to ride a bike and the Pinewood Derby. The really nice thing about the Pinewood Derby is that it teaches a youngster how to make something from nothing. It allows them to use design skills and [...]

Derby Monkey Garage, your leading retailer of Pinewood Derby Cars and Fast Pinewood Derby Tips would like to thank each and every one of our valued customers and to wish everyone a Happy, Healthy Holiday Season! Please visit us in the New Year to see all our cool, fast Pinewood Derby Cars, Kits, Designs, Templates [...]

Derby Monkey Opens 2nd Store Derby Monkey Garage is pleased to announce the opening of a 2nd retail store location. DMG and Bob “Lucky 13” Hardwick have partnered to create Derby Monkey East located in Somerset, Kentucky. As an authorized Derby Worx Dealer and Derby Worx Pro Shop, Derby Monkey East stocks a wide array [...]

Scouts hope to break record for longest derby track James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer Posted: 09/25/2010 02:52:54 PM PDT DEVORE – One looks like a Nintendo Wii controller; another like a Star Wars fighter plane; another like a pickup truck carrying a four-wheeler.The sleek paint jobs, funny decor and odd shapes of pinewood derby cars often [...]

Model Wind Tunnel Author: Douglas Desrochers Difficulty: Moderate Last year, at the annual Pinewood Derby race for our local Cub Scout pack, we used a Matchbox radar gun (see MAKE, Volume 10, page 148) to measure the top speeds of several cars. We learned that they reached 10mph–11mph at the bottom of the slope. Armed [...]

Sunday, September 5, 2010 Caleb Stott has a super fast Pinewood Derby Car.  Maybe we should ask him for some Pinewood Derby Tips Pinewood Derby 2010! Jake and his friends always talked about doing pinewood derby- and it happened! Let me just say how proud I am of Jake for organizing it and putting the [...]