Traverse City's Right Brain Brewery is best known in the area for its awesome local brews, but it got some national props recently for owner Russ Springsteen's annual Pintwood Derby. The New York Times automobiles blog explores the resurrection of pinewood derbies among adults.
Excerpt: At Cub Scouts Pinewood Derbies, there are always small jalopies hacked together by earnest children and their tool-challenged parents, the misshapen wooden blocks scraping slowly down an angled plastic track and, perhaps, across a finish line…
But sometimes children are removed from the equation, and tinkerers and craftsmen can then compete against each other and the laws of physics. These grown-up races are sprouting across the country.
For the rest of the article and some comments from Russ,
read on.
Source: The New York Times
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