# The pinewood derby - have the rules changed?

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**Created:** [January 31, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pinewood-derby-have-the-rules-changed/648889 "2013-01-31T06:38:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pinewood-derby-have-the-rules-changed/648889/21 "2013-01-31T23:35:24Z")

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My Dad and I made ours together in the 1980’s, but I did the vast majority of the work. He helped and, well, told me what to do. We started with the basic block most years and occasionally bought a prefab one, which was not painted or even completely formed. It just had a bit of “car” shape to it and we did the rest. And it did not come with decals; we bought our own(that was a lot of fun).

You could always tell which kids had Dads who had really done most of the work.

I won our local one twice, but always lost regionals because they banned graphite lubrication due to the fact that it stained their floors.

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