2008 Tenney Mountain Cardboard Box Derby

This is a long overdue post, March 15th was one of my favorite events of the year, the Annual Tenney Mountain Cardboard Box Derby. 

For the last five years and four competitions, last year the mountain was closed, we have dug deep to produce what we would call a kick-ass feat of engineering.  The rules are simple, design a racer made of cardboard, duct tape, and paint.  No waxed cardboard, lubricants, and a minimum of two racers. 

The team of participants have changed over the years, this year we added Kacey and Gus (I will say that neither really contributed, but they're both super cute.  Gus is a dog and you all know Kacey).  The Gagnons joined us once again, putting a third notch on their belts. 

Typically, we've had Friday night and all day Saturday to build, paint, and fine tune, unfortunately, they moved the race up a day and we were limited in our ambitions.  Despite the truncation in time, we were able to build a reasonable facsimile of a Fairchild 22, "The Barnstorming Eagle."   Our original plan was to build a Sopwith Camel (I love Snoopy), but as a one seater, it wasn't a possibility, so we we started by building an Avro 504k. I don't want to be bitter, but we did not take the first place trophy this year, robbed by some gibronis in Captain Crunch costumes.  (I'm keeping an eye out for pictures to allow you the readers to be the judge. Tenney is ashamed of their biased determination of most creative and is avoiding posting.)

Okay, so I'm a little bitter...

I've posted all the pictures in the gallery from that day.

Past Galleries:
2006 Race (First Place - Most Creative: The Jolly Eagle. Scourge of Tenney Mountain.)
2005 Race (First Place - Most Creative: Tenney Mountain Trucking; First Place - Best Crash: The Eagle Racer)
2004 Race (Second Place - Most Creative: The Bombardier)