[READINABLUESTATE]

I used to love building those cars. Got quite good at it. My cars would always place first or second. Most times it wasn’t even close.

[z3n]

Mine was double wedge shaped in general but I grinder to fillet all the edges and corners, particularly the leading edge so it was more like a bubble car. Painted it like a tiger but the yellows were significantly dulled by the graphite coating we put on it before the race. That was my father’s idea. People were using graphite in the wheel pegs but he felt it would also reduce surface airflow friction. Took first

[Hot Tabasco]

My cars would always place first or second. Most times it wasn’t even close.

Hemi's are illegal, surprised you were never busted......

[cymbeline]

“I used to love building those cars”

What did you use for wheels and wheel bearings?

[myerson]

The Boy Scout movement is as dead as Adam Baden-Powell.

[imardmd1]

My boys' cars always, always came in first, partly because of careful polishing of the nail/axles an plastic hubs, and partly through elimination of startup and ongoing friction losses through the finely powdered boron nitride graphite-analogue that I supplied them to lubricate the axles. Very, very slippery stuff, and invisible, too. Not black like graphite.

I still have a little of it around.