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Flickr Find: Pinewood derby iPhone
The words pinewood derby may be meaningless to you, that is unless you were a boy scout. Then, no doubt, the pinewood derby will conjure up many happy memories (I lost miserably at my boy scout troop's pinewood derby, though I only worked on my car for 15 minutes). Now, imagine if a bunch of talented grownups got together and had a pinewood derby. You would get something like the event that the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts just held. Above you see one participant's pinewood derby car all decked out as an iPhone. I hope it is an iPhone 3G, since those are twice as fast (see what I did there?).
Check out the full Flickr set that Jaime Santillan posted, or see the iPhone car here, here and here. And I think you'll recognize some Apple products in this picture as well.
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Adam said 3:42PM on 7-24-2008
I made a pinewood derby car modeled after my family's bag phone way back in the day. It was a "car phone". This was probably 1993 or so, before cell phones but during the glory days of "car phones". It wasn't very fast, but it won first place for creative design!
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moo083 said 3:42PM on 7-24-2008
I wonder if I have pictures of or the actual batcar that is a pinewood derby replica of batman's car from Tim Burton's Batman.
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totoro said 3:47PM on 7-24-2008
"I hope it is an iPhone 3G, since those are twice as fast"
I lol'ed.
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nations14 said 8:52PM on 7-24-2008
Columbus Society
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Deron said 10:59PM on 7-24-2008
of Communicating Arts (CSCA)
http://www.cscarts.org
nations14 said 12:35AM on 7-25-2008
I was making a correction to the article. The author had
misspelled it.
Jay said 4:06PM on 7-24-2008
I remember Pinewood Derbie's from my days in Boy Scouts. I always lost too but I had fun making the car!
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(01) said 4:09PM on 7-24-2008
Brings back terrible memory's of poorly nailed wheels...thanks guys :-)
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OmniGeno said 4:19PM on 7-24-2008
Hmm.. I half expected to see a Nintendo Wii-mote one too..
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eric f. said 10:58AM on 7-25-2008
The Wiimote would not be very aerodynamic...
Oneiroi said 5:27PM on 7-24-2008
Oh I remember the pine wood derby days. I had a batman theme of mine through the years, although the main ones I remember are the batmobile and the joker car.
I should dig those out.
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Mike said 5:30PM on 7-24-2008
The pinewood derby brings only sour memories to mind. When I was a kid, my car ("The Silver Bullet") made it to the final race, against the Scout Master's son. Everything was set, we went down the track, and the other kid's car veered off the hill and crashed. I won... or so I had thought. They called it a do-over. I blame the Scout-Master to this day.
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buffonitaly said 5:40PM on 7-24-2008
I notice it has the flush headphone jack
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Rich Ball said 1:00AM on 7-25-2008
We have an annual grand prix in the AWANA program at our church. This year my oldest daughter measured up my iPhone to make a racing replica complete with a polka doted dock. I posted some of the pictures on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8260231@N07/sets/72157606357091194/
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Skeezle said 9:17AM on 7-25-2008
Those trophies are certainly a creative use of retired Mac Mouses (mice?)
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Rich said 9:34AM on 7-25-2008
Twice as fast!
ho, what a zinger.
Sir, you slay me.
but srsly, no.
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conor said 5:03PM on 7-25-2008
cub scouts do pinewood derby, i made mine a Humvee....
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