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Location: Marlton, NJ | Ok - so it's not an Ovation...
I built this guitar and amp with my oldest a few years ago:
This was commissioned for the 2001 Pinewood Derby. It didn't win any races and it sounds like crap - but it was alot of fun to build and it did win most original design. It does have real strings though! |
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Location: SoCal | Yeah, but it's only got 4 strings.... it's a uke! |
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Location: big island | looks like an ukulele trebuchet! |
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Location: ranson,wva | looks cool mike, i could play that one and no one would throw rotten eggs and veggies at me..lol jason |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Well it's not what I was expecting..but it is very cool Mike |
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Location: ranson,wva | its never what you expect when the fella is from jersey...lol |
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Location: south east Michigan | I like it!
I pegged it as a pinewood derby car when I saw the lead weight.
I made a few with my kids. At the time we thought aerodynamics was most important but I like your take on it better.
Besides... it aways seemed that the kid who always won had a father who was an enginner at GM. Those cars where within the rules but had some pretty high tech tweeking done to them. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Great guitar, in a few years it will be vintage! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Does it run on a mix of Jim Beam and Heroine? |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Only in the Belushi 500. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Thanks guys - this was like the 5th one that we built - aerodynamics went out the window around the 3rd one - after going up against said GM engineers and rocket scientists. We placed 4th in the pack (120+ scouts) with the crappiest looking car that we had.
Jeff - I ran on the Jim Beam. I believe that the guy who ran the track and timer (the BIGGEST computer geek you will ever meet) ran on heroin. Winners were determined down to the 1/1000th of a second - not really keeping in the spirit of the thing. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Funny how it gets away from reality like that. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Way back, I actually won my local Pinewood Derby. Must have been 1973 or 1974. I think my mom still has the trophy.
But my car didn't look near as cool as this one! That is awesome! |
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Location: NJ | ". . Yeah, but it's only got 4 strings.... it's a uke! . ."
Wouldn't it be more like a bass?? |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...nah, this is a bass:  |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
...it did win most original design... That's a coinky-dink. When I was but a wee lad, my dad, my favorite uncle and I (not so much on the, "I" part, as I recall) built a nifty little car that was at the absolute minimums in every dimension. Didn't win a single race, but "I" did win "Most Original Design." Not that it was even my design.
I finally got to build one when my second son was in Cub Scouts. He didn't win anything, though. :(
Cool guitar-car. |
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